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Octave up bad for tweeter?

Sorry if this should be in effects. Since my question is ultimately about my cab I put it here, but if it should move, please feel free. That said...


I have the EHX MicroPog. It blends your dry signal, octave down, and octave up together. It's a great pedal that gives some really cool sounds. I don't use it much, only in the intro to a few songs. My concern is that the octave up is going to fry the tweeter in my cabs (Eden D410XLT). I've heard that playing a guitar through bass cabs can fry the tweeter due to the high frequencies being too energetic (or something along those lines). Will the octave do the same thing, or am I just being paranoid?

Thanks!
 
Any signal can do damage to any driver/tweeter under the right conditions. That being said, you should be just fine as long as you don't go pushing loud, transient-heavy signals in the tweeter's active range.
 
Good judgement and common sense will help, but some of your concern is justified (especially if you use distortion).
 

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