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25th December 2006, 02:27 AM
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: westland, michigan
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| guitar rigs, do ohms effect sound? dam near everytime i get to track gtrz the player asks me what ohms to run everything at and what one sounds better ect.. so i am wanting to be able to help out and learn at the same time so why would you choose to run lets say a 5150 at 4, 8, or 16 ohms? are there sonic differences? |
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25th December 2006, 02:43 AM
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 | you match the speaker you're plugging it into.. |
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25th December 2006, 02:53 AM
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Dahellaware
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| Yes, that is odd.I have noticed that some cabs have different ratings.4,8,once i seen 16 ohm.The amp will be stamped with the ohm rating its sending go by that.Its not a tone choice at all
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25th December 2006, 02:56 AM
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| ok so its not a tone choice, than if you have a head that will do 4,8,and 16 and a cab that will do the same how do you go about deciding what ohms to run? it is a vol vs how hard the tubes are working thing? in other words why would you choose 16 over 8? |
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25th December 2006, 03:02 AM
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| generally, you will lose a certain ammount of high end when going from low impedence to high impedence, but it is safe. there could be some damage done when going from high to low. |
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25th December 2006, 04:51 AM
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25th December 2006, 04:59 AM
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| It is, of course, amp dependent. 16 ohms for the big, crunchy rock thing (4x12). The sound of an AC-30, is an open back 2x12, celestion blues run in series at 16 ohms. A matchless DC30 is also an open back 2x12, but with mismatched (8 ohm) speakers run in parallel at 4 ohms. Generally speaking, the amp should be set to the same ohmage as the cab. |
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25th December 2006, 05:06 AM
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Dahellaware
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| there you go i think we got the answer
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25th December 2006, 05:19 AM
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4x12 @ 16ohms 99.999% of the time. (four 16 ohm speakers run in series-parallel) 2x12 @ 4 ohms, Fender or Matchless sounds (two 8 ohm speakers run in parallel) 2x12 @ 8ohms, kinda like half a 4x12 (two 16 ohm speakers run in parallel) 2x12 @ 16 ohms, for Vox (two 8 ohm speakers run in series) 1x12 @ 8 ohms | |
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25th December 2006, 05:40 AM
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| Sonically speaking, I try to get to 4 ohms as often as possible. That's my sound.
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