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Sure why not, two cabs for clean-channel Left, two for Right.
My rig had one Roland Jazz-Chorus 120H (H=head model, C=Combo model) and I wanted to up it to two so the four clean cabinets with the Altecs had one channel each feeding it with the full 60 watts instead of two cabs sharing that 60 watt channel.
The Altecs are super, super-sensitive I think the specs were 113 db, so that 60 watts was louder than more than twice the wattage if it were to feed a Celestion cabinet.
But that's all I got now, all 4 cleans now have 2-75's and 2-Vintage 30s.. replacing my stolen rig of 4 stacks.
Altecs are impossible to find, 8 of my original Altecs came from Rod Stewart when Jimmy Crespo got fired/quit - those 2 cabinets were painted white - my first experience scraping and redying painted cabs... it's a different world now, way different with the Internet either people are hoarding them; they're all going to Japan for hifi systems, or they're blown and being thrown away instead of reconing.
Basically clean channel functions for me, in a number of ways and I never really used the distortion channel of the original JC-120H because it's a ratty-sounding distortion clip. Unique and not overbearing, but HARSH.
I always wanted to get that lush, plushy chorusing/doubling circuit from that amp, but feeding into a much-tighter tube amp like another impoooooosible find, like a pair of the Hiwatt DR-201 200w heads used by Slade.
So in the Mesa lineup I thought of incorporating two Stiletto heads, or a custom-built quad-head version of the "20-20 Stereo" because I think the chirpy EL84 would really make a statement at 240 watts.
Which all in all, is really not about the volume, but the headroom, meaning retaining that low-end response.
Dragging 8 cabs around may sound like a bitch of a task, but it's not like I'd be the one lifting them, and it's not about playing the Enormodome. It's about staging, and a backdrop - I figured THAT one out in 1984 when I saw Michael Schenker at the Country Club showing like 10 or 12 cabs but powering only 4 cabinets.
Despite the staging aspect, its' also a thought-out scalable instrument. I believe one should consider the amplification an instrument also, and when you think about your backline in a modular balanced instrument you lose nothing when you add components because it's not like "oh, if I need another cab I'll get one".. I'm past that to the point where I could go with one cab powered by 3 amps and still have the same sound as 12 cabs if required.
My rig had one Roland Jazz-Chorus 120H (H=head model, C=Combo model) and I wanted to up it to two so the four clean cabinets with the Altecs had one channel each feeding it with the full 60 watts instead of two cabs sharing that 60 watt channel.
The Altecs are super, super-sensitive I think the specs were 113 db, so that 60 watts was louder than more than twice the wattage if it were to feed a Celestion cabinet.
But that's all I got now, all 4 cleans now have 2-75's and 2-Vintage 30s.. replacing my stolen rig of 4 stacks.
Altecs are impossible to find, 8 of my original Altecs came from Rod Stewart when Jimmy Crespo got fired/quit - those 2 cabinets were painted white - my first experience scraping and redying painted cabs... it's a different world now, way different with the Internet either people are hoarding them; they're all going to Japan for hifi systems, or they're blown and being thrown away instead of reconing.
Basically clean channel functions for me, in a number of ways and I never really used the distortion channel of the original JC-120H because it's a ratty-sounding distortion clip. Unique and not overbearing, but HARSH.
I always wanted to get that lush, plushy chorusing/doubling circuit from that amp, but feeding into a much-tighter tube amp like another impoooooosible find, like a pair of the Hiwatt DR-201 200w heads used by Slade.
So in the Mesa lineup I thought of incorporating two Stiletto heads, or a custom-built quad-head version of the "20-20 Stereo" because I think the chirpy EL84 would really make a statement at 240 watts.
Which all in all, is really not about the volume, but the headroom, meaning retaining that low-end response.
Dragging 8 cabs around may sound like a bitch of a task, but it's not like I'd be the one lifting them, and it's not about playing the Enormodome. It's about staging, and a backdrop - I figured THAT one out in 1984 when I saw Michael Schenker at the Country Club showing like 10 or 12 cabs but powering only 4 cabinets.
Despite the staging aspect, its' also a thought-out scalable instrument. I believe one should consider the amplification an instrument also, and when you think about your backline in a modular balanced instrument you lose nothing when you add components because it's not like "oh, if I need another cab I'll get one".. I'm past that to the point where I could go with one cab powered by 3 amps and still have the same sound as 12 cabs if required.
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