Is it worth adding a poweramp to a head like the WT400? Should I just bite the bullet and get another whole amp. I just thought I would get some input.
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Poweramp or not.
- Thread starter PDK
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- Mar 9, 2005
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I use a WT-330 as a preamp to my power amp. Why spend lots of cash on another amp, if you love the sound of the one you own now?? I love the Eden sound, but Eden doesn't make an amp with enough power, to my liking, and if they did, I couldn't afford one anyway, so this is the most effective, bang for buck that there is. The only trouble with the smaller Eden heads, as you and I use, is that you have to use the headphone jack to get a hot enough signal to the power amp. Which means running a cord to the back of the rack to the power amp's input, or as I did, drill a hole through and make a cable to go through that hole.
ditto for using the headphone output. there is no line out of the 400 althought you could try diming the pad on the xlr out and using it with a poweramp with an xlr in, but the signal still prolly wont be hot enough.
eden's effects loop is only post tube and post enhance and is very very low gain. most of the eden sound and gain is in the ss eq section.
fwiw, if your tube or input ever dies, you can plug straight into the effects return and the amp still works pretty darned good.
i sold mine for financial reasons but also because i was planning to buy a 550, but that's because i use multiple small cabs and so i wanted a 2 ohms stable amp.
eden's effects loop is only post tube and post enhance and is very very low gain. most of the eden sound and gain is in the ss eq section.
fwiw, if your tube or input ever dies, you can plug straight into the effects return and the amp still works pretty darned good.
i sold mine for financial reasons but also because i was planning to buy a 550, but that's because i use multiple small cabs and so i wanted a 2 ohms stable amp.
