Joel Rainville said:
I played guitar in a band a few years ago, and I ended up thinking I needed a 100 Watt tube amp in order not to be buried by the drums and the bass player. I got one. That amp was so loud the vibrations from it could move the drums across the room at 10Mph... I had to leave that amp at home :lol:
Valve/tube amplifiers are exceptionally loud, because they are commonly over driven and distorted, so a 100W amplifier will sound louder than a 200/300W transistor amplifer, because you can't over drive the transsitor amp (because the odd harmonic distortion sounds so bad!). However, the transistor amp will be a lOT! lighter to carry, and should be far more reliable!.
To match a drum kit, a 20W or 30W valve/tube guitar amp is plenty! - or you could just turn the 100W one down? - why can't guitarists find the volume control?.
Acoustic drums are usually considered to provide about 60W, for a recent TV recording of my daughters band
**broken link removed**, we used purely acoustic drums, a 60W transistor amp for guitar, a 120W transistor amp for bass (bass needs more power than guitar!), and 400W (200W per channel for vocals). This gave a good balance, for a normal gig I DI (Direct Inject) the bass and guitar through the 400W PA, plus mike the drums through it as well.
BTW, the TV appearance is due end of September, beginning of October, on Sky One, as part of a documentry about 'Hoodie Culture' in the UK - hopefully featuring Easily Amused and 'The Hoodie Song' which my daughter Melissa wrote!.