Quick Question About Ohm-matching |
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Quick Question About Ohm-matching |
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Jun 23 2008, 05:01 PM |
2x16Ohm option on the amp is for connecting 2 cabs or 2 sets of speakers rated at 16Ohm. No worries mate, just dial in 1x8Ohm, and you don't have anything to worry about.
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Jun 23 2008, 06:27 PM |
With two amps or a stereo power amp one could drive it in stereo. Remember to se the switch to stereo if there is one.
But in your case, just to plug 8Ohm -> 8Ohm If you get an extra cabinet you can connect 16Ohm amp - > 16Ohm cabinet#1 16Ohm amp - > 16Ohm cabinet#2 All this is sensitive stuff so read up on your amp to make sure what works, details can differ from brand to brand. I havn't read up on the Switchblade to be hones, I keep one 4x12 cab connected and that's it -------------------- My bands homepage
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Jun 23 2008, 06:57 PM |
I should add, if you're cab has the stereo switch that would probably mean the speakers run parallell when in stereo and you could connect a stereo amp
16 -> 16 Left 16 -> 16 Right and get stereo sound. Poweramps would usually say like 2x50W to state it's got stereo output. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Jun 23 2008, 08:20 PM |
This has always been a semi-confusing topic for me also
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Jun 23 2008, 08:36 PM |
Well you have to check with the manual of teh amp and see if it gives away stereo signal. You already said it is mono, so 2x16Ohm is simply for adding more mono cabs (2 mono cabs to be precise)
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Jun 23 2008, 08:41 PM |
Ok, thanks for the info! I now has the cab connected as mono to the 8ohm amp-output. But would it be possible to use the 2*16 ohms output on the amp, switch the cab to stereo and use it like that? Wouldn't that be just as running 2 separate cabs, just that it doesnt get the stereo sound (for FX and stuff)? Or would this damage the amp? I really want someone to second this before you run off with these settings. I'm saying that should work. But there's no use really, I never tried that myself but in my world I'm striving to run on 4 Ohm rather than 8 Ohm, the lower Ohm rather the better since it "breaks" the amp less. If you think of it (and I feel I'm out on a limb here trying to explain...) as a flood gate, at 16 Ohm the water is barely comming through, at 8 Ohm it's half open, at 4 Ohm it's close to fully open and the watter floods through. So as I see it running at 2x16Ohm gives no benefit at all. Two 16 Ohm cabinets equals one 8 Ohm in regards to "flood gate water masses". And besides... I think this Ohm business is a mess and I can't guarantee everything or even anything I said is true. I sometimes wish Mr Ohm had an interest for squrrels rather than electricity so we didn't have to bother about all of this -------------------- My bands homepage
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