Power a cab with this?

[Timmy Liam]

Pardon the naive q and yes, I’m aware that this is not what it was intended for. A simple yeah, good idea, no, bad idea will more than suffice.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Jim Carr]

View attachment 3788386 Pardon the naive q and yes, I’m aware that this is not what it was intended for. A simple yeah, good idea, no, bad idea will more than suffice.
Thanks in advance.

If it's all you've got, why not? What cab?

 

[two fingers]

I did it all the time for rehearsals a while back. Just use one channel. Simple as that.

 

[Timmy Liam]

A hartke 410. A friend has this peavey, just wondering if it will work. Unfortunately we’re still in lockdown mode, can’t try it out.....

 

[Timmy Liam]

Ok thanks Jim and 2 fingers!

 

[fdeck]

Should work. The guts of Peavey bass amps of the day were not radically different than that mixer amp.

 

[Jim Carr]

It's rated at 210 watts @ 4 ohms and 300 watts @ 2 ohms. For an 8 ohm cab, that's likely about 120 watts.
You probably will have to use either the Hi-Z inputs or the Aux input. You might possibly need a DI to use a mic input.

Manual attached as pdf.

 

[agedhorse]

It will work, but the input impedance of the 1/4" inputs is very low for a passive instrument. Might be fine with an active bass though.

 

[Stumbo]

It will work, but the input impedance of the 1/4" inputs is very low for a passive instrument. Might be fine with an active bass though.

Broughton HPF/LPF with boost to the rescue!

 

[DigitalMan]

It'll probably sound a little better if you have some kind of bass preamp pedal (or otherwise) to shape your tone and raise it to line level first.

 

[Deltatim]

Have one in storage....used for a while untill I got a Bher***....played fine thru a pair of Ross 15 PA cabs. Unfortunately the reverb unit is toast....may be for sale soon.

 

[AGCurry]

It'll probably sound a little better if you have some kind of bass preamp pedal (or otherwise) to shape your tone and raise it to line level first.

Only if you're using the AUX input... that's line level.

 

[AGCurry]

Microphone preamps - I count six in the photo - may be a bit overloaded by even a passive bass. You might need to turn down the volume on the instrument to avoid the resulting distortion.

 

[agedhorse]

Microphone preamps - I count six in the photo - may be a bit overloaded by even a passive bass. You might need to turn down the volume on the instrument to avoid the resulting distortion.

You can't use the mic input with a passive bass, the input impedance is WAY too low. Typically ~3k

There are 1/4" unbalanced inputs on each channel too, the input impedance of these is about 200k so they should work fine for an active bass and not too bad for most passive basses.

 

[Tim Skaggs]

It’ll work. The mic channels don’t make the greatest bass preamp, but since you will be the only input, you can twiddle the master graphic EQ until your ears are happy.....

 

[agedhorse]

They are only mic channels if you use the mic input (don't).

For all you guys begging for a flat response preamp, that's what it is!

 

[lowphatbass]

You can plug anything you want into that and power any speaker. I’m not saying it would sound good but you’d hear it. The odds of breaking that thing, short of doing something completely stupid are slim to none.

 

[mexicanyella]

I have the rack power amp that uses the same guts as that mixer, minus the mixer circuitry (Peavey M-3000). Tough unit. I feed it with the output of a Zoom B-2 and drive a bass cab with it. Works great.

I have used a little four-channel Peavey mixer head as a bass amp, powering a 1 x 15 cab, at band practice a few times. I plugged into one channel’s unbalanced input, set the channel EQ flat and tweaked my tone with the master EQ. Worked great.

 

[BOOG]

Broughton HPF/LPF with boost to the rescue!

classic!

 

[Downunderwonder]

I did a GTG with one of those powering my 210 no worries. It would have been passive bass though a preamp pedal.