Hi not at all an expert
the advice I got with regards to underpowering from this we site was.
- If you are pushin a solid state into power amp (signal going to speaker) clip. This makes a nasty hot signal going into your speaker.
as the speaker is higher wattage than the amp you shall not hear the speaker complain.
but little do you know you are frying somethin on your speaker.
I have an all tube ampeg head, and as my back up I have a CRATE BT 350 sold state. only does 350 watts.
both my cabs are 800 watts, I never run the crate higher than 50% on gain and master.
This because I always have its limiter engaged to protect my lovely cabs. if I push the master above 50% it sounds like mush.
Its not the sound I want but I dont risk my cabs for it.
One way to get more volume / headroom in such a situation is to not push the lowest bass freuqncies, but rather the perceived ones such as 100 hz, make sure the cabinet is making contact with the floor, whatever but dont push a SS head into max clip zones. 80% sounds like a lot to me
sucks but thats the way it goes till you get a bigger head.
again all info from what I been told to do here.
the advice I got with regards to underpowering from this we site was.
- If you are pushin a solid state into power amp (signal going to speaker) clip. This makes a nasty hot signal going into your speaker.
as the speaker is higher wattage than the amp you shall not hear the speaker complain.
but little do you know you are frying somethin on your speaker.
I have an all tube ampeg head, and as my back up I have a CRATE BT 350 sold state. only does 350 watts.
both my cabs are 800 watts, I never run the crate higher than 50% on gain and master.
This because I always have its limiter engaged to protect my lovely cabs. if I push the master above 50% it sounds like mush.
Its not the sound I want but I dont risk my cabs for it.
One way to get more volume / headroom in such a situation is to not push the lowest bass freuqncies, but rather the perceived ones such as 100 hz, make sure the cabinet is making contact with the floor, whatever but dont push a SS head into max clip zones. 80% sounds like a lot to me
sucks but thats the way it goes till you get a bigger head.
again all info from what I been told to do here.
