Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

[Jacew]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

Yes, but TWO 30W speakers can handle 60W, doesn't matter if they are in series or parallel.

Don't have time to write it out, so check here - https://www.amplifiedparts.com/tech-corner/speaker-impedance-power-handling-and-wiring (although the speaker recommendations have a safety factor of 2 on everything, which I don't necessarily agree with for guitar cabs, but that is a different discussion)

Oh. Sorry. My mistake.

Just remembered reading it somewhere that doubling power handling by adding speakers doesn't work in series, just parallel. Didn't really thought the logic behind it.

That's great to know.

 

[devastone]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

No worries, just wanted to get correct info out there, you know how the interwebs are, I read it so it must be true!

 

[justFred]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

mic'd my amp (3 front 1 back)...now what do I do with these?

 

[devastone]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

Since you have males and females, plug them together and see if the sound gets stuck in a loop.

 

[Artie]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

I would think that if you're going to do multiple mics on a cab, you'd also go into a little micro-mixer. Many companies make them. Then you'd just send that single output to the sound man.

 

[justFred]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

the "sound man" seems to be the main deterrent...going to incorporate a "sound man" bypass...use iSound or something...have to Google around...

 

[Artie]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

...going to incorporate a "sound man" bypass...

Doesn't the "sound man" work for the band? :dunno:

 

[dystrust]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

Doesn't the "sound man" work for the band? :dunno:

That's what I hear, but sometimes I wonder :lol:

 

[devastone]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

Again, back in my day, no, he worked for the club, at least we weren't at a level to have our own sound man. Generally the club had a soundman that ran sound for the 2 - 4 bands for the night, and his job was to make the bands sound as good as possible while minimizing the downtime between. But again, it's been a while since I have played clubs, but to my understanding they pay pretty much the same or less than the did 20 years ago, and it's much harder to pack a house.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

most of the time there is a sound guy, its the clubs guy or a backline/sound company. there is one six piece band i play in that brings our own sound guy to just about every gig even if we dont need to haul pa. even he would give me stink face if i asked for three mics on my amp. hed do it, a few times at least, but wouldnt be happy about it. in the mix of that big a band, the subtleties would get lost any way. now in a trio, ive run two amps and mic'd them both

 

[Jacew]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

I have 2 16ohm G12H's and 1 Eminence legend 8 ohm.

I would really like to try those together, but getting the impedances right would mean I need to run 3 speakers.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

not hard to do and probably would sound great

 

[justFred]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

after review of a 3 mic set up have come to the conclusion that the"sound man" is right...it would be a major PITA...for someone like Mark Knofpler in a studio it probably makes a significant difference....for someone like me the results would be the same as always...wife yelling "turn that guitar down!!!"so it goes...

 

[jeremy]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

in the studio using a few mics is pretty common, live is another story

 

[allstarrme]

Re: Anyone Ever Try a 3-Speaker cab?

I have one, it’s a Randall 2x12 with one 15 in an oversized ported cab. It was loaded with eminence legends that were all 16ohms but I loaded it with eminence v12 12’s that are 8 ohms with a Weber 15 that’s 16 ohms. I also have a Jensen 15 to try in it.

It’s very clear and open sounding. Doesn’t have the mid grind that my 2x12 or 4x12 v12 loaded cabs have. Sounds a bit closer to the Man o war or g12t75.