What do you do with your Tweeter?

[billfitzmaurice]

As long as you make sure the disconnected wire can't short out on anything, you won't hurt anything by disconnecting a tweeter....

-1. Read this, specifically where it discusses the potential for the amp seeing a dead short when a crossover has no load:
http://www.bcae1.com/xoorder.htm

 

[Spinal Tapper]

As long as you make sure the disconnected wire can't short out on anything, you won't hurt anything by disconnecting a tweeter....



- georgestrings

Cool, they aren't loose-ended wires, but they have those clips on the end...maybe I should tape em up anyways?

 

[Spinal Tapper]

-1. Read this, specifically where it discusses the potential for the amp seeing a dead short when a crossover has no load:
http://www.bcae1.com/xoorder.htm

If you could elaborate in the simplest terms possible, I'd appreciate it.

I clicked on that link and it made no sense to me...I'm more of a bass player than an audio engineer...

 

[erigod23]

Mine is totally off. I hear nothing musical in them.

 

[Metal Matt]

There's one in my Eden 4x10. Turned it off and covered it up with everyones favorite savior...

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[Spinal Tapper]

There's one in my Eden 4x10. Turned it off and covered it up with everyones favorite savior...

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whoa...sweet...and sacrilege...

so you turned it "off" did you disconnect it, or just turn the knob down or what?

I noticed my SWR Goliath III responded better when I disconnected it completely because it was farting out, even when it was set to "off" or "low" position on the knob.

 

[georgestrings]

-1. Read this, specifically where it discusses the potential for the amp seeing a dead short when a crossover has no load:
http://www.bcae1.com/xoorder.htm

So, Bill - are you actually trying to say that it isn't common to disconnect a tweeter, and doing so can cause damage???


- georgestrings

 

[Spinal Tapper]

So, Bill - are you actually trying to say that it isn't common to disconnect a tweeter, and doing so can cause damage???


- georgestrings

I'm curious about this too - because I just disconnected mine last night and it sounded fine, worked fine...seems like lots of ppl here do it...

 

[Metal Matt]

whoa...sweet...and sacrilege...

so you turned it "off" did you disconnect it, or just turn the knob down or what?

I noticed my SWR Goliath III responded better when I disconnected it completely because it was farting out, even when it was set to "off" or "low" position on the knob.

Never had that problem with my Eden. Simply turning it all the way down works for me. It's probably worth mentioning that I'm not pumping a whole lot of power into this cab. I use 4 - 5 cabs usually and 3 200 watt amps. So each cab maybe gets between 100-200 watts. My Eden can handle like 500 I believe. So I doubt the tweeter is in much danger of blowing anyways.

 

[staccatogrowl]

For all practical purposes all my tweeters are audibly off. . . However, to keep the L Pads from burning up, they are on at about 10% of pot travel. . .

 

[Essen]

I prefer to keep mine off, but then again I like to slap every now and then.. My biggest problem is that using distorion + tweeter sounds terrible to me. I'm thinking about building some sort of mechanical footswitch

 

[Hoover]

In my one cabinet that has a tweeter I removed the lightbulb/fuse, effectively disabling it completely. When I'm using rented backline, I turn the attenuator all the way down to zero.

 

[billfitzmaurice]

So, Bill - are you actually trying to say that it isn't common to disconnect a tweeter, and doing so can cause damage???


- georgestrings

Would you run a 1/2 ohm speaker? When you disconnect a tweeter that's what can happen. The likelihood of damaging your amp is slight, but so is that of an offshore oil rig blowing up.
If you don't want to run a tweeter remove it and the crossover so that the potential for damaging your amp is zero.

 

[Spinal Tapper]

Would you run a 1/2 ohm speaker? When you disconnect a tweeter that's what can happen. The likelihood of damaging your amp is slight, but so is that of an offshore oil rig blowing up.
If you don't want to run a tweeter remove it and the crossover so that the potential for damaging your amp is zero.

Interesting....my (2) 10" speakers are rated at 175 watts @ 16 ohms each, and the sticker on my tweeter said 150 watts @ 8 ohms...I just figured it was a separate entity on its own. I'll probably have my tweeter disconnected entirely and hardwire the speakers to the input jacks to be on the safe side, yes?

 

[billfitzmaurice]

Interesting....my (2) 10" speakers are rated at 175 watts @ 16 ohms each, and the sticker on my tweeter said 150 watts @ 8 ohms...I just figured it was a separate entity on its own. I'll probably have my tweeter disconnected entirely and hardwire the speakers to the input jacks to be on the safe side, yes?

That would be the prudent move, unless you're positive that the tweeter high-pass filter is first order.

 

[SpamBot]

It'd be pretty easy to identify the type of crossover if you took a picture of it, or at least whether or not it's first-order.

 

[fingertap]

For me, it depends on the show. Outside or in big cavernous places usually on.

When I put the earplugs in (absolutely by the end of the first set) it helps me to hear myself. There is a footswitch for the tweeter. My amp has total 4-band EQ w/3 range selection switches (sunn coliseum bass) I can dial up whatever I need. I mainly use the neck pickup and no effects.

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[Tim C.]

Luckily, I sold my amp combo that had the disconnected tweeter, so now it's a guy named Efrem's problem.

 

[zachoff]

In the only cab I've ever had w/ a tweeter (Schroeder 1515L), I had it at about 10:30. It's not present enough to sound like there's a tweeter there but if you turn it off you can tell the difference.

 

[tallboybass]

No tweeter here. (unless it happens to be a fabulous tweeter like Schroeder or Bergantino....and then only barely on, and only when goofing around so like I said, NO!)