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Originally Posted by DAZBASS86  Hey people
I recently treated myself to the two goodies in the title of this post as I wanted some good gear that would last me for a while so have been saving up for ages.
However, I feel I have been misinformed by the shop keeper. Can SOMEONE/ANYONE please tell me if the Little Mark Tube 500 is compatible for the Traveller 210 4ohm cab. It sounded fine in the shop at lower volume, but when I hit my first practice with it, I had the volume and gain at around 10/11 (playing moderately loud rock) and when I turned down for a bit to put my bass down and went to turn it back up the sound had gone completely.
I tried the cab with the standard amp at the rehearsal studio and the cab worked, but then tried MY LITTLE MARK TUBE with the studios cab and nothing, then after a couple more mins, I put the Little Mark Tube back with the Traveller 210 and it was fine again for the rest of the session.
Not sure why this happened. Is this amp too powerful for this cab? Did it set off some kind of speaker or amp protection system momentarily? The guy in the store said it was fine to go with this cab, as he suggested me plugging it in, but checking the cab it says it handles it only 400watts when the Amp is 500! I know I sound like a fool. Just not much of a tech head and wasn't helped very much by the shopkeeper obviously.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Am thinking of either getting an 8ohm traveller instead or just going for a straight up 410 cab to handle all this amp has to offer.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Cheers
Daz |
While I agree in general with Rickenboogie, there is no inherent reason that you can't use that head with a 4ohm 210. That being said, assuming there is nothing wrong with the head (I've been using my MB heads for years in very high volume situations and have never had a shutdown.... very rarely reported), you might have just been trying to push the volume beyond what any little 210 can do.
In other words, it has nothing to do with a 'power mismatch' or whatever, and more to do with trying to get way more volume out of a small rig and hence pushing the amp beyond its performance capability.
That head with a 4ohm 410 (or two 8ohm 210s) will do everything short of full out Marshall stack silliness.
So, the dealer was not wrong with that matchup due to impedance, but rather sold you too small of a rig to get the job done for your particular volume level. Return that cab for a 4ohm 410 and you should be very happy.
