ohms sweet ohms... (1 Viewer)

[Space]

I know what you're saying but two 8 Ohm speakers will still show the amp 4 Ohm. So even though they are independent in the cab, when you connect to the parallel outputs of the head they'll be two parallel speakers giving 4 Ohm. There's a chance your head is 4 Ohm but I doubt it seeing as it's a plexi copy. I'd say you're better leaving the cab at 16Ohm and working away with that rather than risking damage to the OT.

 

[ernesto]

i gets ye. ok will do chief

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

they would be independant of each other, ie: not 4 ohms but two 8 ohms.
in meaning that a 2x12 cab would now have a stereo input. one input per speaker. do i make any sense?

Seems like a lot of unecessary work? Or am I missing something?

 

[Space]

Seems like a lot of unecessary work? Or am I missing something?

What he's trying to emulate is the stereo option on newer marshall heads/cabs, defo unneccessary imo and I'm not too sure how stereo it'd be either..

 

[ann post]

What he's trying to emulate is the stereo option on newer marshall heads/cabs, defo unneccessary imo and I'm not too sure how stereo it'd be either..

not stereo i'd imagine?

 

[Space]

Considering it's still one head/mono source then yeah not stereo.

 

[ernesto]

not trying to emulate any stereo. i should have just said two equal ouputs from both on the head to two separate inputs, one on each 8 ohm speaker but thats gonna give a load of 4 ohms.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Surely one input if the speakers were connected to each other properly would do the same job?



(it should be noted I'm not entirely sure what I'm talking about)

 

[ann post]

my little 15 or 30w bass amp gets really really warm really fast when i switch it on these days. its connected to the speaker that came with it from the factory. anyone?

 

[ernesto]

Place it in a fridge

 

[washingcattle]

my little 15 or 30w bass amp gets really really warm really fast when i switch it on these days. its connected to the speaker that came with it from the factory. anyone?

Does it have a fan ? if the fan is dirty it slows down and the heat builds up, clean the fan maybe ?

If it doesn't have a fan, I'm out of ideas.

 

[ann post]

i doesn't have a fan. just a heat sink.

 

[Space]

Clean it. Chance the power supply or power transistors is/are on it's way out.

 

[ann post]

will give it a clean and see - it might end up just being sacrificed for parts if thats the case, was sorta considering that anyways.