Can I use a 4 ohm cab with an 8 ohm cab?

Can I use a 4 ohm cab with an 8 ohm cab?

B-string Supporting Member. You can run one 8 ohm cab or two 8 ohm cabs (=4 ohm load). You can run one 4 ohm cab with no other. If you run a 8 ohm cab and a 4 ohm cab that will equal a 2.667 ohm load and either damage the amp or it will shut down.

Can you wire 4 16 ohm speakers 8 ohms?

You can just run the one 4 ohm cab. If you make up a special Y cable yourself you can run two 4 ohm cabs in series to give an 8 ohms.

Can I use a 16 ohm cab with an 8 ohm head?

How can you use 16 Ohm speakers with an 8 Ohm amplifier? You can just connect them, the same way you would if they matched. The only difference is they would not provide the full power the amplifier was designed for, by about 3db.

Can I use a 4 ohm speaker with a 16 ohm amp?

It is totally ok to run a 4ohm amp into a 16 ohm cab. The rule is that you can mismatch ohms as long as you mismatch lower rather than higher.

Will a 4 ohm head work with a 8 ohm speaker?

Can you use a 4 ohm amplifier with 8 ohm speakers? Yes you can, provided it’s not a tube amplifier with a transformer output. Solid state amplifiers will be perfectly fine, though they will only deliver half the rated power to an 8 ohm speaker.

How do I make my 4 ohm speaker 8 ohm?

An amplifier has to apply twice the voltage to an 8 ohm speaker to get it to allow the same amperage (and thus watts) as a 4 ohm speaker. Inversely, an amplifier intended for 8 ohm loads might pass too much current if used at moderate to high levels with 4 ohm speakers, which would melt its output transistors.

Can I use a 4 ohm amp with 8 ohm speaker?

Can an 8 ohm amp drive 16 ohm speaker?

Case 1: running a 16 ohm speaker with an 8 ohm amp output With this combination, the voltage at the speaker output will rise, while the current will almost halve. The power will drop, although you probably won’t notice it too much, as this combination will likely increase the mids in your tone.

Is 8 ohms louder than 16 ohms?

A 16 ohm speaker can handle more output, it can go louder. Nope. A 8 ohm amp at 50 watts and a 16 ohm amp at 50 watts will both be about the same volume level, if both are using matched speakers, that’s determined more by the output wattage and efficiency of the speakers.

Can you use any cab with any head?

You can generally use your head with any cab (as long as the impedance matches up), and vice versa. This makes gigging, recording, rehearsing with a band and even upgrading your rig super easy. You’ll also be transporting both components separately, which can make gigging and soundchecking a whole lot easier.