I understand that and its terrible , but last weekend I had 800 ms on NA which is about what someone should get from the moon . <| sep |> Holy shit you ' re not kidding , previous guitarist in the band had the Blues Deluxe and the volume of that thing is just incredible . It worked awesome for a working 90 s cover band , there really wasn ' t any sound it didn ' t do well that we needed . But here ' s a key difference If you use a guitar tone with a lot of low end , you ' ll need that extra oomph . Low frequencies take a ton more power to reproduce loudly and if you ' re playing hard rock or metal , especially if you ' re in a drop tuning or use a lot of low end chug , you need a closed back cabinet and more wattage to get a good loud stage sound . But aside from that , for almost any other style of music , I agree with you A full head and 4 X 12 setup is often completely unnecessary , expensive , and annoying to carry around . If you ' re playing decent sized venues with enough room to open one up and use it they sound great though .