Sell on Reverb and get £10 back after listing your first item: reverb.grsm.io/sell-on-reverb... 100 Watt amps aren't louder than 50 Watt amps, the difference is Headroom which allows them to sound different for the same loudness. Understanding headroom allows you to choose the right amplifier, get the best sound, and do it all at volume levels appropriate for your application. More from CSGuitars: Gain access to exclusive content at: www.patreon.com/csguitars Buy CSGuitars Merchandise: csguitars.bigcartel.com/ Website: www.csguitars.co.uk Contact: colin@csguitars.co.uk

Step 1: Scoop all mids Step 2: ?? Step 3: complain you're not being heard and you need a 300W amp head

I always love how you can explain and make a topic clear in 12 minutes when That Pedal Show can't (and actually make it more confusing) in 1 hour

Can you do an episode on 10", 12", 2x10, 2x12, 4x10 and 4x12 speakers and their benefits, cons and uses?

I feel like this video would have profited massively from sound examples.

This high-quality transfer of usable information is exactly why I come to this channel....well done Viking!

All the mids, all the headroom! Wait for everyone else to complain they can't hear themselves.

I learn a lot from your videos. Thanks

Scottish accents are THE BEST!! I could listen to you read a tech manual all day LoL Really great video and audio lesson! Keep up the fine work!! Salutations from Miami, Florida!

THE best channel on you tube for the electrical aspect of electrical guitars and their amplification

One of your best instructional videos yet, along with the one on tubes/valves . Something a lot of people don't know is that if you use subs on your PA, by taking some of the load of your mains at their lower end, where the frequencies use the most power, you'll get more headroom on the mains. Even if you don't feel the need for subs, they can make your mains sound better.

fantastic job with the animations. Never miss a video from you.

By far the best explanation I've seen on KZfaq. Massive props, man!

I already had a rough concept what headroom was in my head but this video really helped me structure and categorize it in a helpful way, so thank you very much for this!

Clearly explained, with confidence and fun? Jees, you're getting above yourself! Great video, clear and concise.

Colin, Your videos rule. I love the in depth technical explanations. You know your stuff, and that you want to teach it to me without watering it down too much is awesome. Thanks.

Very clear and informative video, and nice graphics too. Well done, Colin!

Very comprehensive and clear as always. The charts help a lot in understanding and you even make learning fun. That's how an educational vid should be made, you're a great teacher, Colin!

Hey, great video! Here is a question for a TATA: What is "sag" and "Bias" that I see a lot of people talking? I also see controls for this on amp modeling plugins.

Awesome stuff, you choose topics no one else talks about on KZfaq. I’ve been a musician for 15 years and still learn a lot from your vids, thanks for that.

Thank you for the video! Great information and it gives me direction on what to buy and use going forward!

dude. im just now discovering your channel. this is my 4th one now. waiting on the ads to finish. bro, im loving the geeky nature of this channel. this is exactly the style of things i like chatting about with folks. plz keep these coming

Any company who sponsors you is a wise company, judging from the ad breaks in your videos as of late.

Colin, between you and Uncle Doug, we have everything we need to understand our amplifiers. Thank you for such a clear analysis if average vs. peak power.

Super happy I found your channel! Thanks for awesome content. I'm a guitar player only to the extent that I own the cheapest one in existence and have learned a few chords. But I'm really interested in getting down to circuitry when it comes to my main instrument, piano/keyboard/synthesizer. The info your channel provides is incredibly helpful, and the stuff it doesn't cover in minute detail is addressed at least enough to nudge me in the right direction to learn more--cheers for that!

I think you have to be the most clear guitar-stuff-explainer out there. Thanks for doing what you do

Hey, great video here ! Best sponsor placement on the whole internet ! The animations are really helpfull, maybe some sound example of headroom distortion could have helped, but I understand that playing an amp on the maximum volume in s flat isn't the best idea. And also, Patreon Squad !

Very informative !! My example: I gig regularly. Clubs to festival stages. 99% of the time, my 30 or 40 watt tube amp, with a 1 x 12 speaker is more than I ever need. Volume on amp is almost always between 1 and 2. I run my amp louder at home practicing than I ever do on stage. With good PA's now, sound guys/girls don't want stage volume. I get all I need from the monitors.

I love your channel! So much fantastic info delivered in a compact format and 100% comprehensible. And I love your Scottish accent..."peckups" is a favourite 😊

100w heads will feel and produce atmospheric pressure. I use some audio dynamics processors to regulate my sound. I have seen my light bulbs unscrew themselves in my jam room, and extinguish cigarettes when entering. It's awesome being loud beyond limits

Finally, an explanation I can understand! Super-clear, excellent video. Thank you.

Two Set Violin!!!! 🤘🏼

Excellent presentation. The graphics made the situation quite clear.

Honestly, that was a fantastic video. Thanks!

This video is several years ago but this fast becoming my new favorite channel.

Awesome! A lot of the things you talk about on this channel I already know from experience but now I understand the how and the why.

Colin, I swear it's like you monitor my KZfaq searches. The last few days I've been looking at the Headrush Gigboard and have been wondering why people were pushing frfr speakers to go along with it. BOOM! Along comes my brotha with the explanation. Thanks Colin!

I make music for 25 yrs now...and just for the last few years I discovered all these tonal secrets...gain, mids, wattage, etc...when I was younger there was no Internet, and no Collin...so thx dude for opening up my sound horizon....now I play a 50W head with a fair amount of mids and rather low gain...and my guitar blows everything from the stage...and after every gig some people run up to me, and tell me, what a phenomenal guitar sound I have...fat, mighty, clear...so kids listen to guys like CSGGuitars...you will just benefit

As always, your presentation style is fantastically easy to understand. Something that you do that really sets you apart is always sticking to non-ambiguous terms and never accidentally slipping into the slang that is so commonly used. For instance, the way you always use "clipping," "gain," and "distortion" only by their textbook definitions. Keep up the good work.

This is where you live, dude. Loves these videos and your special way of explaining things.

Really nice video and it was really helpful. Thank you!

Thanks for doing what your doing! It's brilliantly explained and really simple!

Great video! I'd like to see more content like this: well explained, focused and info related. Bring it on mate! \m/

Massive thanks on your thoroughness as a massive fan of metal to now acquiring & learning the instruments i've always needed.

One of the cleanest” explanations in the web, congrats and thank you! Cheers from Portugal. Nuno

Perfectly explained, finally I understand this! Thank you

But you can love the distorted sound of your amp too ;) Very good video. I really enjoy the clarity of your explanations, in all of them.

You did it again, Colin. Potentially difficult subject beautifully explained. 👍🤘

I love your videos so much, everything is explained so elegantly

Thank you so much for this video. You have a great style of explaining. I had a b'zillion questions about this very subject, but this video cleared most of them up.

Your videos are always so good and easy to understand. You channel should be an example for all the content creators :)

Awesome video, man! Never saw anyone explaining this better!

This is THE best explanation of this idea. Thanks Colin.

Very informative! Easy to understand explanation, thank you

You go above and beyond, man. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Best explanation I‘ve ever heard. Thanks a lot!

I took 2 semesters micro electronics in university and wished I had ur vids to watch back then. This is all basically application to the signal theory I learned back then. They would have been a nice companion to it. Excellent vids!

1,000 x ...YES! The main reason I got my Laney IRT60H with matched 2x12 cab was for headroom. The options on the IRT60H are insane and lends itself to meticulous tone shaping with just the bare amp...but it is more than capable of being a pedal platform amp (clean channel used exclusively)! Using it in this way is a tunnel vision approach for sure, but it's just damn good with my extensive board and stereo amp setup. When high gain is necessary, I never encounter that annoying squishy fizz. My other amp is a 50W Boss Katana MKII btw

Great video! Exactly the type of explanation I was looking for!

Very informative and educational. Thanks Colin

Colin you're like the ideal physics lecturer + rock n roll realness! Top work, 100% facts 😀

This was stellar, Collin. Perhaps one of your finest TATAs

Fantastic, concise explanation, as usual 😊👌 love your channel

I always learn something from these vids. Nice work

Your videos are superb, mate. Well done.

Colin, you've just solved a problem with my Peavey 100W VIP3, when using an acoustic guitar. The power amp would really break up unless I turned the treble right down. Guess the higher frequency transient peaks were too much for it and the FRFR speaker only revealed the problem. So I just put a Compressor in the chain, like you suggested, et voila! The problem never shows using a normal electric guitar, presumably because the frequency response tails off much more than an acoustic. Thanks very much!

Very helpful and interesting video. Love your channel!

Somple and to the point. Love your videis dude. Greets frim Canada.

1:37 twoset violin cameo

love your vids you tells what we actually need to know

Hedjrem! Brilliant video. Well explained. Thank you!

Excellent explanation of the headroom concept.Thanks from a fellow Scot !

As a physics major and guitar player, your videos are a brilliant and are a joy to watch! Keep it up!

Great video Colin! I've always preferred amps in the 30-50 watt range, as I feel they give me the best middle ground between those (sometimes) desirable effects associated with pushing the power amp into over drive, and clean integrity of tone. And its part of the reason I usually run my Mesa Mark IV in half power mode.

this is such good information, my man just kept going too. nicely done.

As a person educated in AF electronics by a Government Department in charge of shipping sound around the country i.e The NZ Post Office, which was in charge of telephony in those days, and as a long-time dabbler in guitar playing, I would like to say that this is the best explanation of audio amplification as it relates to level distortion I have ever heard. And, may I add, I didn't watch this vid at random: I find this whole channel admirably informative, and above all, full of succinct factual information without vague references to mythical properties of electronic equipment. That is; just the facts, no shit. Thanks for educating those who don't have an electronics background, I think you do a great job!

That was an excellent explanation of Headroom

1:37 Big up twoset violin ❤

"And if you've found out that you bought the wrong thing" go sell it on REVERB. Gr8 info Collin, thx!

Thanks for the detail

Excellent presentation. You could give lectures 🤘🏻

Very informative video!

Great explanation! Thank you!!!

You rock ... good info. I want my walls to shake ... and my earth to quake! 5150III 50W with two 2x12 got me there. I can feel it. Love it!!!

So you're saying not all situations require Meesa bohgie? Great video, thank you! And like i saw someone say before, the animations help a tonne

As always, and as I have come to expect, a clear, and sensible presentation. Nicely done. The only missing component (though something I'd expect to see from you in a future video) is the power-handling capacity and headroom of the speakers involved. All speakers have a "linear operating range". That is, a zone within which the power applied from the amplifier yields the frequency response depicted in the spec sheet. Anything either below or above that linear operating range may yield something quite different. Going substantially above it yields "speaker breakup" and potentially voice-coil blowout. Worth discussing how maximum power-handling is modified by how many speakers divide up the output power among them, the impact of their wiring on load-impedance and output power, and how this might affect the behaviour of both the amplifier and speaker/s. I would look forward to your thorough common-sense discussion of such matters, and trust you to do a bangup job of it..

Brilliant... you’re an excellent teacher and just got a new sub in me!

Your videos are SO infomative

I looked online but can't find your sponsor. I typed exactly what you said, "rWeevearb"😆 This video is perfect as I'm looking to pickup my first tube amp and had NO clue watt was watt(Ha! Dad jokes rock!). You have a great way to dumb it down so lunkheads such as myself can understand it. Thanks! Now, back to trying to find this "rWeevearb" you spoke of...

You get no headroom in skinny jeans.

I look at it simple. Clean and loud. A good amp is Clean and loud. Great video.

Fantastic video. Extremely insightful. If I were famous and needed a guitar tech, I'd hire you Colin.

Dude! You are becoming ridiculously Adept at giving presentations that are not only technically proficient but interesting at the same time. You could probably make a whole lot more money for yourself as some sort of a factory rep for musical equipment or maybe even an engineer. Thanks for the excellent video brother!

Great video!

you are awesome! thanks for the info!!

SUPERB -- informative!

Really appreciate the timer on the ad part.

Thanks for making.

it's ridiculous just how much I enjoy the ads! :D

Excellent explanation. 🎶🎸