Setting up VR w/ 810 & 410

[cpt8101]

Need a little help on this. I have always played my SVT-VR straight through my 810. The connect this up was very easy. I now want to add in a 410. How should I connect this up to my head?

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by cpt8101

Need a little help on this. I have always played my SVT-VR straight through my 810. The connect this up was very easy. I now want to add in a 410. How should I connect this up to my head?

you shouldn't, that's how even if you have a 4 ohm 410, it'll still output at a little more than half the volume of the 810, and if it's a 410hlf, it'll probably be less than half the output. and if it's 8 ohms, you set it up to work at a wonky impedance that the head's not designed to operate at. you're better off sticking with one 810 or adding a second 810 instead.

[Fair Warning]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

you shouldn't, that's how even if you have a 4 ohm 410, it'll still output at a little more than half the volume of the 810, and if it's a 410hlf, it'll probably be less than half the output. and if it's 8 ohms, you set it up to work at a wonky impedance that the head's not designed to operate at. you're better off sticking with one 810 or adding a second 810 instead.

Hey Jimmy, I have been watching all of your helpfull posts and am a fan of yours. Sorry to hijack the post, but I was trying to decide whether to try an HLF off to the side of my 810, power it with a separate amp, and see what happens too.

Your response to the lead post makes sense, but could you not get some clean lower frequency with an HLF off to the side? or is that hairbrain?

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by Fair Warning

Hey Jimmy, I have been watching all of your helpfull posts and am a fan of yours. Sorry to hijack the post, but I was trying to decide whether to try an HLF off to the side of my 810, power it with a separate amp, and see what happens too.

Your response to the lead post makes sense, but could you not get some clean lower frequency with an HLF off to the side? or is that hairbrain?

thx for the nice comments!

if you do it with a separate amp, then yeah, you can adjust the volumes to match and the eq's to complement each other rather than phase each other out. but the 410hlf and 810e are so different from each other that i could never use them in the same amp. and honestly, i'd never use them together even using different amps. but if you must separate amps are the way to go.