54 cabinets! How many heads?

[JayCM800]

From Marshall website:

"Gothenburg based metallers, Hammerfall, smashed the record in Sweden for having the most live Marshall cabs on stage. A staggering 54 cabinets were used for Hammerfalls performance at the Getaway Rock Fest in Gävle, Sweden this year, with each and every one hooked up and powered - that's an amazing total of 216 loaded speakers! Loud or what!"

So, how do you hook up that? I really doubt they were all connected!

 

[Goosey]

And if they were all 300 watt cabs (just on a guess) that would mean 16200 watts worth of speakers!

 

[chuckharmonjr]

ok..I'll take a stab at it..54 cabs?...27 heads!

 

[MartyStrat54]

 

[rjohns1]

The number of cabs is even, so in theory, one head could pull it off, if you wired them in a series parallel circuit, you could end up with 16 ohms. I might be wrong though, i have to do the math.

 

[george76]

 

[johnfv]

...if you wired them in a series parallel circuit, you could end up with 16 ohms...

Yup, I would guess some series/parallel action going on to run several cabs off a single head.

 

[Ken]

What? You can't run them all off one amp? I hear that's all the rage these days.

Must be .000001 ohms...will that damage my OT if I use the 4 ohm output?

Ken

 

[5er driver]

I'd like to line the 4 walls of my man cave with those fake stacks, they don't look to be more than 8" deep.

I read somewhere that those fake heads have batteries to run red LEDs so the amps look like they're switched on.

 

[Papus]

The Hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands......

 

[Papus]

Class 5's.
They're all powered by Class 5's.

 

[sccloser]

Used to be smoke and mirrors. Now they've added fake amplifier facades...

 

[jcmjmp]

I wonder when Marshall is going to release the official "fake stack". Maybe that's what the 50th anniversary will be?

 

[impetus maximus]

i remember seeing Dimbag doing sound check at Hammerstein.
his wall of stacks was the real deal. they did a volume check of each amp.
i will never forget that show.

 

[gjohnson]

14 Mono blocks, 1 JMP-1 would do it.Wall of thunder for sure!

 

[Hollowbody]

I saw Dokken and AC/DC in '88 or '89. They had a wall of em, sounded really good.

 

[MM54]

When I saw Megadeth, they had quite a nice backline of 8 stacks, and I could tell by the way the roadies were swinging the heads up on top that they definitely weren't dummies

Not I'm not saying they were all powered up and on, but it was impressive nonetheless.

Here's a picture I took