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05-10-2011, 02:56 PM
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Is there any benefit to doing this? Why not just plug in the 1/4 and be done with it?
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05-10-2011, 02:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY | | | Maybe the 1/4" jacks don't work? |
05-10-2011, 02:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | it makes sense to somebody. |
05-10-2011, 03:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC | | I can't find the white paper but it's been scientifically proven that running 1/4" into SpeakOn gives superior sound quality over those ancient technology 1/4" jacks. Particularly when using Monster Brand SpeakOn adapters.  |
05-10-2011, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by froghat  Maybe the 1/4" jacks don't work? | That's the only thing I can think of. |
05-10-2011, 03:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | So you don't accidentally rip the cord out the back? At least that's my reason... But if that were the case instrument cables would have the same design so who knows?
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05-10-2011, 03:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bristol, Connecticut, USA | | | That's an adapter, how is it going to prevent a cable from comming out? I don't think anyone is in much danger of accidentally falling behind the cab and ripping the cable out anyway. Besides, wouldn't it be better that the cable becomes unplugged than the entire amp falling over?
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05-10-2011, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by MuzikMan That's an adapter, how is it going to prevent a cable from comming out? I don't think anyone is in much danger of accidentally falling behind the cab and ripping the cable out anyway. Besides, wouldn't it be better that the cable becomes unplugged than the entire amp falling over? | My mistake, thought it was a standard speakon... And you would be surprised playing in packed gigs with drunks running and moshing everywhere....
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05-10-2011, 03:35 PM
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05-10-2011, 03:48 PM
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Why not just plug in the 1/4 and be done with it?
| It gets worse. Looks like the end of the cable plugged into the amp is a speakon.
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05-10-2011, 03:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Somewhere in AZ | | | I have one of those adapters. It's nice to have one handy when you are dealing with both new and old bass gear. My Dr. Bass cabs are speakon only when my other cabs can take both 1/4 and speakon, just offers more options |
05-10-2011, 04:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: East Oakland, California | | | you would be surprised. I once opened for a band that had the same bass amp as me. I talked the bassist into letting me use his rig if I set it back to his settings and helped him carry it off.
When I went over an plugged in and started setting up for "my" sound he remarked he had no idea the bass knob or volume knob pulled out to shift the freqs. He had owned the amp for years!
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05-10-2011, 04:13 PM
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05-10-2011, 04:51 PM
| | | | Either the 1/4" jacks don't work, or that the nly speaker cable the player had at the gig.
No benefit whatsoever to doing it that way.
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05-10-2011, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by BbbyBld It gets worse. Looks like the end of the cable plugged into the amp is a speakon. | i had to scroll back up to take a peak... i LOL'd in my chair for about 3m.... Classic. 
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