Please don't shoot me, I'm just the translater here.
I wish I was in a sitch where I had the experience with all of these. I still haven't found a band over here. I'm not in the loop (moved here from across the country), I have high standards, odd demands (want christian band), don't get out much (rather stay in with my supermodel wife and kids than go hang around smelly bars drinking me a bear belly and eating urine saturated peanuts). I used to play at church but we moved out of that church because they were not bible centered enough. :shock: Now I got nothing again.
Anyway, I don't have an urgent need of a loud monitor. In church even my 8" Behringer sufficed, barely having a drummer. That behringer definitely wouldn't stand up to a real drummer, though.
About 20 years ago I was looking around for another amp and I tried a beatup AC30. I passed on it because I thought it didn't get loud. Must have done something wrong.
I've always been aiming my 4x12 at my head. :shock: Don't worry I turned it down.
I even built my own stand to tilt it backwards. I never wanted the front row to get blasted and not to be heard in the back. So I aimed it at my head, what passed round my head bounces off the ceiling and at least reaches further than the front row. And we always miced the amps, even in small rooms.
I thought my point with the festival story was obvious. And that sound guy is very good.