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Dummy Loads to match Ohms?

  • 02-02-2009 5:16pm
    #1
    Welease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭


    Ok, so here is my problem :)

    I have a 4 Ohm cab.. and I would like to get a Tiny Terror connected.. The Terror only allows 16 or 2x8 Ohm connection..
    From what I understand, connecting it to a 4 Ohm cabinet would damage the amp...

    Does a device exist which would take the correct load off the amp (so to speak) to allow me to use a 4 Ohm cabinet, or would i have to go out and buy a new cabinet?


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  • #2
    unclebill98
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    What cab are you looking to use?


  • #3
    Welease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭Welease


    Its a Bogey 4x8 cab i just picked up on Adverts...


  • #4
    The Boarder Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭The Boarder Man


    Some sort of mass loadbox I guess.

    Something like this maybe?
    https://taweber.powweb.com/weber/micromass.htm

    Surely cheaper to jerry rig something yourself (a resistor in series seems to easy to be right :confused:) but I would wait for a tech head like Paolo to jump in and advise on that first.


  • #5
    Eoin Madsen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Eoin Madsen


    Welease wrote: »
    Does a device exist which would take the correct load off the amp (so to speak) to allow me to use a 4 Ohm cabinet, or would i have to go out and buy a new cabinet?

    There's a couple of things you can do.

    You could add a 4 ohm load in series with the cab to present an 8 ohm load to the amp - for this you could use an attenutator or other premade load box (you're talking a couple of hundred euros), or possibly you could use a big 4 ohm resistor. The resistor won't sound great, and high wattage resistors actually aren't all that cheap.

    A much better idea, I think, would be to change the internal wiring of the cab. I would assume it's a a quad of 4 ohm speakers wired in series/parallel. If you rewire them all in series the cab will be 16 ohm.


  • #6
    Welease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭Welease


    Eoin Madsen wrote: »
    A much better idea, I think, would be to change the internal wiring of the cab. I would assume it's a a quad of 4 ohm speakers wired in series/parallel. If you rewire them all in series the cab will be 16 ohm.

    Yeah that's the kind of solution I was hoping might work...

    The other lazy assed solution :) was to go for a BlackHeart 5w (which has 4OHm output)... but tonally it seems way short of the Tiny Terror :( Would be interested if hearing if people have played both... (the Epiphone Valve Jr seemed to have too clean of a tone for me)


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