ampeg v4 with an ampeg 350h slave?

[mplsgetscold]

basically, i've never owned enough amps at one time to run a slave so i've never bothered to figure out exactly how it works or what the benefits are.

so! questions are:

1. is it possible to slave my ampeg 350h to the ampeg v4 that i just bought?

2. is there a crucial benefit to doing this?

sorry if this sounds like a newbie question but i'm really only experienced in high gain guitar amps.

thanks!!!

 

[RickenBoogie]

No benefit unless you have separate cabs for each amp, and even then, you're better off running them stereo.

 

[mplsgetscold]

i've been thinking about doing that too. i run a boss rv-5 at the end of my line so i could stereo out of that. just gotta play around with it, see if i like some of the tones that i get.

thanks!

 

[vegedge]

you can not slave old tube amps unless there is a line out. otherwise you blow up something or tear a hole in some electronic guts or junk. this has been asked a few times in the past month or so

 

[mplsgetscold]

the 350-h would be the slave.

i don't really know how slaves work so i was wondering about running the solid state into the tube head? kind of like a giant 350watt boost or eq pedal?

i've never had experience doing anything like this and i really don't wanna ruin my gear(i.e. my tube head or my cab).

 

[jbd5015]

stereo would be neat if you run effects. what kind of cab are you running this through?

im super simple in my rig. just bass to the V4. i got mine with a matching B40 cab and was never totally happy with the tone above a certain volume. I thought it might be the head so i tried running a BDDI and still wasnt happy. Settled on trying a new cab and eventually just loaded the B40 with Bag End speakers from a Q10BXD and my problems were solved.

It seems like youre looking for more headroom if you are trying to boost the power of a V4. These are pretty stout amps if you have the right efficient cab. This Bag End mod i did got me pretty darn close to the feel of having an 810 fridge.

cheers,

-Jeff

 

[mplsgetscold]

i have an ampeg 810E. so i could separate the heads to the top and bottom inputs and run stereo out of my rv-5. that might sound interesting, it might also sound like crap. only one way to find out i suppose.