It strikes me that if you are impedance matching the output to give a constant 100W, maybe if you plug it into a 4Ω cab on the 8Ω setting, instead of getting more output power, you get smoke.
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It strikes me that if you are impedance matching the output to give a constant 100W, maybe if you plug it into a 4Ω cab on the 8Ω setting, instead of getting more output power, you get smoke.
A 100W head that could deliver 200W? You don't work in advertising or sales...
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More 'Bird finishing. Three coats of grain filler are now on both bodies and sanded. I think the first coat of finish will go on without tint to seal whatever is left of the wood that would soak up finish and get all blotchy. Then I can tint and sand it off and retint until it's what it should be. Or I get tired of doing it. Thing about tint on scrap wood is that the scrap will look different from the actual guitar bodies. Those look different from each other, too, so I may have to use a different tint to get them to look more or less the same. This is my idea of a good time, believe it or not. It's a beautiful day here, and I'm down in the basement with sandpaper.
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No, I don't. And, that's why I said it would deliver 200W until it blew up. The usual solid state amp will do OK at 4 ohms. Some handle 2 ohms just fine and make more power. Some melt. I think like an outhouse physicist who dropped out of calculus.
My Mesa has a multi watt switch, full power, half power, and low (quarter). The manual says if you are running on half or low power with an 8Ω cab, they recommend using the 4Ω jack, for maximum headroom, tighter attack, less roll off etc. and there's "safe mismatching impedances" which is always using the one step lower jack with a higher cab i.e. 8Ω jack with a 16Ω cab or 4Ω jack with 8Ω cab. I haven't experimented with it much on full power but I believe that running a safe mismatch makes for a darker tone, and from what I've heard the amp actually runs cooler.
So when you go the other way, lower impedance cab and higher impedance amp, you will probably get smoke... and an amp tech bill
Search for "safe mismatch" on here.
http://mesaboogie.com/media/User Manuals/bassStrategy_170612-web.pdf
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Eight KT88s! You could do gigs in Boston ... from your front driveway.
I get all the stuff about matching cab impedances to output transformers but that's not how it usually works on a solid state amp is all. I was curious as to whether the inductor accounted for the amp's (to me) unusually good tone. I played through other contemporaneous SS amps which were like fingernails down a chalkboard (H||H anyone?).
Ya I only had it on full power NEAR the house once... wasn't even cranked up... the siding on the house shook and rattled like crazy... you can't buy an amp like that and NOT turn it up.
Ahh, solid states are outside of my limited knowledge of amps.
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That's excellent that is. Top marks.
But ya gotta love their lyrics! Keep em Separated, Get a Job, Pretty Fly for a White Guy... the list goes on, they have fun songs to cover but I gotta agree with you - Offspring vocals, Geddy vocals and Tiny Tim volcals are all in the same boat to me.That's how the Offspring are for me. That singer makes the entire world a horrible place to be, simply by being heard! My eyes bleed... children cry... gods forsake us... puppies and kittens spontaneously combust... it's just bad man
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Of all people, you should welcome eight KT88s. Just saying.
There's solid state and then there's solid state. Same with tubes or valves. Some sound great, some sound lousy. There's a reason I lug around enormous and oversized Acoustic Control amps and cabinets. I'm shallow, but it's not all about looks.
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Ornery and not very sensitive. And not particularly concerned about much of anything at the moment. That kind of emo. Current pour, post band, pre-getting on another #$@% airplane is about a fingernail of Irish whisky. I'm saving the scotch for when I have time to really enjoy it.
I am physically, mentally, and emotionally incapable of cutting through my absolute and all consuming disdain for them, to even come close to trying to get to their lyrics. They are unquestionably my most hated band. Hate the guitar player... hate the guitars he plays... hate his tones... hate the singer... hate the songs... hate the hooks... I could go on & on. Normally I'm not so outspoken about this kinda thing, but no other band... no other sound, evokes this level of "displeasure" in me. Seriously... I've never experienced it before or since. It's like the Offspring are this "perfect storm" of all the wrong things. I'd sooner listen to a 33rpm record of bagpipe droning played at 45rpm at concert level volume for an hour with shards of broken glass in my eyes, than to sit through an Offspring song.
"No Sir, I don't like 'em. Don't like 'em at all"
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Beware of Darkness, Orthodox. I quite enjoy this album. Though I find the singers voice,,, unusual ,,, on a couple of the tracks. I expect it is done for effect. They give the thought that those that like My Chemical Romance may also like Orthodox by BoD. I haven't heard their other album.
I revisited Rush after a while, and was able to appreciate them a bit more now. I've acclimated to Geddy I guess. Not sure they'll ever be top of the class for me, but no longer an automatic 'skip track'.
I revisited Rush after a while, and was able to appreciate them a bit more now. I've acclimated to Geddy I guess. Not sure they'll ever be top of the class for me, but no longer an automatic 'skip track'.
Can't say I'm familiar with their work -- apart from that Pretty Fly novelty single which was briefly popular. I do like bagpipes though.
Well... if you should ever happen to develop a taste for the worst things ever... you should check 'em out
LOL - They really have an impact on you. That's cool, everybody has a their triggers. Fortunately I can take a song or two from just about anybody and it just rolls off my back. It's when an entire album is played (of certain bands) that I get agitated and start looking for the door (or sharp objects). Green Day is probably the band that I can take the least of. Just something about Billy Bob Joe John singing monotone through his left nostril for 45 straight minutes that really gets under my skin.Well... if you should ever happen to develop a taste for the worst things ever... you should check 'em out
But on the bright side, there are a number of bagpipe songs (Amazing Grace being one of them) that just sound so perfect on that instrument. Some time ago I was at a Scottish festival in Ohio and a band called Bad Haggis played. Electric bagpipes and maybe a Hurdy Gurdy type thing along with a hard hitting drummer and solid bass player, not a bad band, interesting and different while still very mainstream and hard rock. I liked it.
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