Speaker out

[greenboy]

Romex or coat hangers.

 

[MODELL]

Just to clarify one point: if you are going:

amp -> DI -> parallel output on to speaker box from the DI

you will want to be using a speaker cable.

Almost:

It's amp (speaker out) -> DI -> house PA. Amp has built in 10" speaker that stays on despite using the seperate speaker out. I think by most answers it is a speaker cable between amp and DI then mic cable to PA.
The reason for me plugging in this way is to get the amp's eq sound to the PA system w/o miking it. It's a crate powered mixer with 2 full range 15" cabs. I will leave the PA channel's eq flat and hope to get my amp's sound to come out of the PA speakers.

 

[billfitzmaurice]

I...hope to get my amp's sound to come out of the PA speakers.

It won't. The speaker in the amp is highly colored; the main purpose of the amp EQ is to compensate for that. The PA is relatively flat, so sending the same EQ'd signal to the internal speaker and the PA will give entirely different results. For that reason you usually DI pre-EQ, and trust that the soundman knows what you want the PA feed to sound like.

 

[JimmyM]

I think the only time a speaker DI is really effective is when you use an all-tube amp. Then you get some of the edginess of the power tubes and output transformer in the signal path. But it's definitely not meant to be a substitute for EQing on the board. It CAN work out well, but generally you'll still have to do some EQing at the board to slot the bass into the mix properly.

 

[MODELL]

But it's definitely not meant to be a substitute for EQing on the board. It CAN work out well, but generally you'll still have to do some EQing at the board to slot the bass into the mix properly.

I agree to an extent, but the eq on this Crate powered mixer is far from elaborate. I've tried going direct from the DI to the board and can't get a sound I like. I will coninue to experiment. I could just bring my SWR Workingman's 15" combo and bypass the whole PA as another option. I'm only competing with an acoustic guitar and 2 vocal mics.

 

[mrkreuzschlitz]

Sorry but no. When you use a DI between the speaker and head, you need speaker cables. It doesn't work with shielded cables. I've tried.

Oh man, I'm so embarrassed, I totally should have read that better. If it's carrying power, speaker.