Saturday night, 4/15, I went to see Gary Hoey at a medium sized club close to home. The show was fabulous, I was close enough to the stage that I could put my hands on his monitors. Most of the show I was checking out his pedalboard & fingers, got some nice lessons. FYI, look for a new CD from him this summer, and also look for Peavey to be a major sponsor of his.

The reason I bring this up is that this guy has played in all sorts of venues, and he uses that experience to his advantage. He had one of his new Peavey's onstage, and the tone was there. I got to talk with him for a few minutes after the show and asked him about it. He said that he couldn't get into specifics, he said Peavey would be doing a public announcement sometime soon. (see the link below) What he did tell me was rather interesting though. I'd thought about this thread a bit and asked him why he was running a small stack of 2- 4x12 cabs in a medium sized club. I woulda thought that a single 4 x 12 would get the job done. He said ''for the tone and the punch.'' He went on to explain that just because you have that big 100W head, there may be no need at all to run it at full tilt. He said that when you wire it up right, the extra cab spreads the load, freeing up the speakers to reproduce the tone without distorting themselves.

http://www.peavey.com/news/article.cfm/action/view/id/193/20061704.cfm