[The preacher’s] aim…will be to stand under Scripture, not over it, and to allow it, so to speak, to talk through him, delivering what is not so much his message as its. In our preaching, that is what should always be happening. In his obituary of the great German conductor, Otto Klemperer, Neville Cardus spoke of the way in which Klemperer “set the music in motion,” maintaining throughout a deliberately anonymous, self-effacing style in order that the musical notes might articulate themselves in their own integrity through him. So it must be in preaching; Scripture itself must do all the talking, and the preacher’s task is simply to “set the Bible in motion.”
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#1 · October 23, 2003, 9:37 am

Posted by: drgregn <drgregn@...>

Ace said:

Okay, I keep kicking around the thought of getting a nice combo amp.

Criteria:
It's got to put out at least 100 watts RMS. Would love for it to be higher.
It must have an extension speaker output
It can't weigh a million pounds. I.E. Eden Metro, SWR Red Head, Peavey 210TX, Peavey BAM or Boom or whatever. In other words, I would prefer it to be under 70lbs. Something that I can actually lift into my little Suzuki 4 Door Sidekick or into the back of a Saturn SL2 without having to drive myself to the hospital - Because my hernia has ejected out from my abdomen to my spine!
Oh, I would prefer it to have a tweeter and a usable DI output.

Ace -

I used to own an Ampeg B50R - great tone IMO, not the lightest combo but quite manageable.  Bad news: it does not have either a tweeter or DI, and is only 50 watts.  It has an unbalanced line out but not a true extension speaker output.  The good news was that it is loud enough to keep up in small rooms, sounds great, and is inexpensive (you can get these used for less than $300).  It actually won the Bass Player combo shootout a couple of years ago (for whatever that's worth).   It was a little weak on the B-string but less so than you would think for its size.

Steve Lawson at one time favored the Ashdown ABM-C110/300 (there's a review by him out there somewhere - do a Google search if interested), and Brian Batey used to (still does?) have a SWR Baby Blue that was killer.  Maybe they can chime in with the details.  These are considerably more expensive, though, even used.  I looked at an EBS Drome once upon a time, but decided it was way too expensive, and I didn't need all the bells and whistles it offered (phantom power, etc.)

Greg Naugher

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