So what actually is the heaviest combo?

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timmysoft said:

I've never really struggled, but then I'm retry fit, over 6 foot and 14 stone. I can actually carry two 412s at once, I don't know how I found that out but it used to be a handy trick.

At a gig in the late 80s at the Edinburgh Playhouse, I saw the support band's roadie come on at the changeover and carry their entire Trace Elliot bass stack - I think 1x15" and 4x10", although it might have been two 4x10"s - with the head still on top, by picking it up by the side handles of the bottom cab. He looked like a big bloke, but… f***!! That lot must have weighed well over 200lbs, even the heads from that era aren't at all light.

seany65

If the heaviest combo is not also the most expensive, then there's summat wrong somewhere.
:P

viz

Carvin legacy combo: 28kg
Carvin legacy 4x12 cab: 42kg

richh

Nomination for the Seymour Duncan convertible 1 x 12.

I'm not sure the actual weight, but I tried lifting one, and it was a beast!

Cirrus

The heaviest combo is whichever one you're trying to lift into the boot of your car at 2:30am after a long gig when all you want is to be in bed already.

I think my Mesa Stiletto Ace 2x12 is 88lbs, Above a certain weight it's basically irrelevant anyway because you're not going to move it on the level without wheels and you're not going to lift it up stairs without help. I think the heaviest I'd be happy to lift about on my own is an AC30 combo at ~70lbs, and that only because it's got three top handles and it's a relatively shallow open backed cab so it's easy to bear-hug to lug it round.

Cabicular

I have a Fender TRRI and a Matchless DC30 (moezambeeks old one as a matter of fact)

Before every Gig I gaze upon them... then my eye falls on the two rock Jet 20 combo....

crunchman

Trace had a bass amp with valves in.  I think there was a 2 x 12 combo version.  That has to be up there.

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crunchman said:

Trace had a bass amp with valves in.  I think there was a 2 x 12 combo version.  That has to be up there.

I don't think the combo version is the full valve power amp - it's the hybrid one, so it's not as heavy. I could be wrong… I borrowed one briefly which was the hybrid, but if they did an all-valveone as well it's only the 200W one so not that heavy. The combo is a 2x10".

The V8 400W head is a monster though, but not quite in the SVT league for sheer weight. Nor, sadly, for robustness. I used one for a while once, and I've worked on a few more - just too flimsy to be really reliable unfortunately.

meltedbuzzbox

richh said:

Nomination for the Seymour Duncan convertible 1 x 12.

I'm not sure the actual weight, but I tried lifting one, and it was a beast!

I have heard they were stupidly heavy. 

ICBM

They weren't. A friend of mine had one, it was no more than medium at most.

The spec says 57lbs, which sounds about right from memory and makes it lighter than my solid-state Peavey Special.

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Fuzzdog said:

Heaviest amp I ever had was a silverface Fender Quad Reverb I borrowed for a while.

Gorgeous tone, but you didn't want to move it very often. )

I gigged a Quad Reverb for a couple of years, I can't believe I managed getting around with it. Lifting it into and out of a mk2 golf boot was a serious mission. Website says they weigh 90lbs, Mine was close 100lbs on the postage scales.

I also have an Acoustic Model 165 (80's Boogie copy) that weighs 70lbs which is a lot for a 1x12 combo!

JayGee

Anyone know what a Super Six weighs?

JookyChap

I had a Peavey Deuce for ages, which wasn't very big but weighed 100lb-ish, lugging it up 7 flights of stairs to my flat after a gig was never much fun. 

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JayGee said:

Anyone know what a Super Six weighs?

98lbs but I bet they are heavier than that, my quad was about that weight.

ICBM

I think the Quad might be fractionally heavier than the Super Six actually - the Six does have two more speakers but they're much lighter than the ones in the Quad, and although the cab is taller there's not a lot of extra material.

I don't think I've ever come across both together so I could try lifting one with each hand .

paulmapp8306

As suggested earlier, the Egnator Tourmaster Combo - which is 97lb so up there.

usedtobe

Chuck Berry had the right idea.

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usedtobe said:

Chuck Berry had the right idea.

He didn't like Keith Richards setting up his amp though... Keith made a mistake allowing him to use something as loud and bright as a Twin.

A bass player I know always said that the best bass amp is "someone else's PA" .

longi

The Laney AOR Pro Tube 50 watt combo is pretty heavy as I remember it. I remember picking it up and having a F$%k me that's heavy moment and I work out!

sted

My old Mesa MV was pretty unwieldy and heavy for a small 1x12, my Matchless head is insanely heavy for its dimensions, god knows what a 2x12 must be like from those guys.