One night my band at the time was playing a fairly large club in Somerville, MA called Goodtimes. It had a huge stage, and was big enough to backline the gear of all the bands playing that night. My band was going on first, followed by 2 modern metal bands. The 2 guitar players in the bands were on after me were friends with each other, and set their Mesa Rectifier halfstacks up side by side. I admit it looked very impressive.
I had a small rig, an Avatar 2x12 and a rack that housed a power amp, and a Line 6 Pod Pro. I placed my speaker cabinet off to the side, near those chrome plated monsters. After my band played our set, I was breaking down my gear, and 2 guys came up to the front of the stage and complimented me on my sound. I said thanks, and was kind of stoked that someone would go out of their way to pay someone a compliment.
They asked how I got all my equipment to the gig, and I said, in the back of my Honda Civic. They looked at me, and pointed to the 2 half stacks, you get ALL of that into a civic?! I realized at that point that they thought that wall of speakers was the rig I had played through. I had a little chuckle, and said no, pointed to the nondescript rack and speaker cabinet.
"THAT'S my rig."
Their jaws dropped.
"THAT Little setup?!"
"Yep."
"Wow."
I have to say the compliment was nice, but I think they were a bit bummed out that I wasn't cranking up those diamond plated beasts. Needless to say it was an eye (ear?) opener. Picking your gear based on how it sounds, not the brand, or any other reason should be the priority. If it sounds good, it is good.
Oh and the guys the played after us with the Mesa Rectifiers sounded great too, BTW.
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