Endorsing Artist: Carvin,Modulus, Hotwire & Conklin Basses, Eden Amps
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Nashville,TN
I only did this once, under dire circumstances (the bass amp blew up!). I took my Alembic Series 1 and turned the gain all the way up on the internal preamp and ran it through a Yamaha Power Amp and into a full range 1x15 Yamaha PA speaker. It was about the equivalent of one of those donut spares-it would get you down the road but you wouldn't want to drive this way any longer than you had to....
Using my active Peavey Cirrus, I can plug straight in to my (older) Carvin T100 tube power amp and drive it to full power/distortion, but it has the most sensitive input in a power amp I've ever seen, only .5V. The tone is just buttery and the Peavey's onboard EQ is plenty versatile. Unfortunately Carvin bumped up the sensitivity on the newer TS100's to 1V.
I only did this once, under dire circumstances (the bass amp blew up!). I took my Alembic Series 1 and turned the gain all the way up on the internal preamp and ran it through a Yamaha Power Amp and into a full range 1x15 Yamaha PA speaker. It was about the equivalent of one of those donut spares-it would get you down the road but you wouldn't want to drive this way any longer than you had to....
Your amp blew up because you bypassed the pre? Thanks for the warning.
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Clement #256
Endorsing Artist: Carvin,Modulus, Hotwire & Conklin Basses, Eden Amps
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Nashville,TN
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bass_Pounder
That's NOT what he said.
He said his amp blew up, so he had to plug straight into a Yamaha power amp to get by.
True, I just used the onboard active electronics of the Alembic (and they can get loud) to drive a power amp to limp thru a gig. Not my favorite way to do that but it got me through ok.
