The combo amp is a favorite in metropolitan cities like new york where a player might potentially carry his or her entire rig on a subway or might have to carry the whole rig up three flights of stairs to the gig.
Head and cabinet vs combo.
Here is a brief discussion of the differences between these amps.
Jimi hendrix pete townshend slash and the like.
As a bassist i always found it much easier to find powerful compact heads and cabinets.
An amplifier is exactly that a machine designed to increase the volume of the guitar.
The stack was made popular by the rockstars of old.
Many people do not know the difference between head cabinet stack and combo amps.
However there are a few additional considerations.
Other than the lack of reverb in the tm18 head and the price difference are there any real benefits or disadvantages of one over the other.
Combo the second configuration is a combo short for combination of both head and speaker cabinet.
A head and cabinet rig splits the weight of the amp into two pieces and can be easier to move but the real difference is that in a traditional stack the cabinet is a 4 12 with a closed back.
So coming back to the topic of the article i have two choices either i go for the tm18 12 combo or i go for the tm18 and the tm112 cabinet.
Stack is another term for a guitar head cab rig the two components being stacked on top of each other.
A half stack refers to a head with a single cabinet while a full stack is a head with a vertical column of two cabinets.
Electric guitars need to be amplified in order to hear them louder than a simple acoustic guitar.