scott wrote:The reason people are saying twins are loud is because for a combo, they're very loud. I had a 100W Hiwatt 1x12" combo, and it was pretty similar in loud-and-clean to the twin.
There's a whole spectrum of amps, from the 5W or 15W amp that you're gonna run wide open and it gets drowned out by a loud drummer, up to 80W, 100W, 120W amps where if you run them wide open through even a 2x12" they will drown out any drummer.
The twin is a loud and clean amp. The Deluxe Reverb is like a Twin that's voiced totally differently, to get good output tube saturation at a workable volume. The twin is voiced to be loud, sharp and clean.
That's why people say stuff like that about the Twin.
Yeah I agree they are loud and they do what they are made to do, but I have had a lot of amps run through my shop in the last years that are WAAAAAY louder than any twin. I have read (not here) that people just rave how they are the loudest 2x12 combo and I beg to differ. Thats all. Great amps for sure