Someone help me with my amp problem?

[joeoqt]

How do I connect 3 cabs to one head?

Any secrets?

[patrickhowell]

what outputs do you have on the back of your amp, and what impedance are the cabs ?



and why do you want to do this ?

[remoteCONTROL]

yea dude if its for show, just dont plug em in. i now a bunch of bands when they do arena tours (even paramore when they were doin promo for riot) just had empty cabs that weren't plugged in. smaller clubs are gonna think youre being pretentious and it'll suck hauling them all over. if its for volume, no place youre playing will need that many cabs. and if you are playing places that you'll need that much volume, ask your guitar tech. if it's because you can't possibly get a better sonic response without having those 3 specific cabs, then run it through two heads

[patrickhowell]

yea dude if its for show, just dont plug em in. i now a bunch of bands when they do arena tours (even paramore when they were doin promo for riot) just had empty cabs that weren't plugged in. smaller clubs are gonna think youre being pretentious and it'll suck hauling them all over. if its for volume, no place youre playing will need that many cabs. and if you are playing places that you'll need that much volume, ask your guitar tech. if it's because you can't possibly get a better sonic response without having those 3 specific cabs, then run it through two heads

I have a feeling it's more for fun than any of those reasons, in which case I say go for it as long as you hook it up right and don't blow your output transformer.

[joeoqt]

Actually I'm doing it as a joke. I have four cabs. At a summer party show, we're making fun of my friends band who just as an unruly amount of equipment, usually I play with only one cab, maybe 2. The problem is, I have 3 outputs on my head, 2 4ohm outputs and one 8 ohm output. The cabs all have one 4 ohm input and one 8 ohm input. I think what I'm gonna end up doing is running 2 cabs with my mesa for distortion, and 2 cabs with my fender for cleans, and then ab switch them.

Trust me, I know that I would never need this in a real live situation.

[patrickhowell]

Actually I'm doing it as a joke. I have four cabs. At a summer party show, we're making fun of my friends band who just as an unruly amount of equipment, usually I play with only one cab, maybe 2. The problem is, I have 3 outputs on my head, 2 4ohm outputs and one 8 ohm output. The cabs all have one 4 ohm input and one 8 ohm input. I think what I'm gonna end up doing is running 2 cabs with my mesa for distortion, and 2 cabs with my fender for cleans, and then ab switch them.

Trust me, I know that I would never need this in a real live situation.

If you plug in a 4 ohm speaker and an 8 ohm speaker in parallel, then the actual impedance would be 3.4 ohms. This would be a safe load for a 4 ohm tap, but very bad for the 8 ohm tap. You need to plug both of the speakers into the 4 ohm outputs on your head.