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272 Part V: Gearing Up: Outfitting Your Arsenal TEAM LinG
Most blues players opt for the combo type of amp (shown in Figure 15-2). If
you need more power than your combo amp delivers, you have three choices:
Mic the speaker and run the sound through your band’s (or the venue’s)
public-address (PA) system.
Hook up an extension speaker (if your amp has that feature).
Switch to a head and cabinet (stack) setup (covered in the next section).
Figure 15-2:
The Fender
Twin amp.
Head and cabinet amp
In a head and cabinet amp setup, the amp is separate from the speaker cabinet.
This arrangement is more flexible than the combo amp because it allows
you to mix and match speaker cabinets with the amp. If you play in a small
space, you can use a smaller speaker or cabinet than you would for playing in
a larger area. But you can still use the same head and get a consistent sound
and the features familiar to you.
Many people refer to a head and cabinet configuration as a stack, because the
head stacks on top of the speaker cabinet. But some purists, especially when
discussing Marshall amplifiers (shown in Figure 15-3), argue that a stack is two
speaker cabinets with a head on top, and that one speaker cabinet with an