DarkPenguin
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I have a Marshall Code modeling amp that had a 4 Ohm speaker. On it's own it is pretty horrible but with cab modeling it is okay.
I swapped out the speaker for a 16 Ohm Vintage 30 that was in my Blues Jr (which had replaced the 8 Ohm unlabeled Fender speaker). Turn off cab modeling and this sounds great. Very pleased. (The Blues Jr now has a custom Eminence Maverick speaker without the FDM stuff. The FDM controls sat where the power tubes prefer to live so I had to get a special one made.)
I'm mildly worried that I'm murdering this amp. I know with a tube amp you can generally go up or down (preferably up) by a factor of 2. I had the 16 ohm Vintage 30 in my Blues Jr for years without issue. But I don't know how this works with solid state. I think it is peachy and I'll just lose volume but I'm not sure. Any ideas?
I swapped out the speaker for a 16 Ohm Vintage 30 that was in my Blues Jr (which had replaced the 8 Ohm unlabeled Fender speaker). Turn off cab modeling and this sounds great. Very pleased. (The Blues Jr now has a custom Eminence Maverick speaker without the FDM stuff. The FDM controls sat where the power tubes prefer to live so I had to get a special one made.)
I'm mildly worried that I'm murdering this amp. I know with a tube amp you can generally go up or down (preferably up) by a factor of 2. I had the 16 ohm Vintage 30 in my Blues Jr for years without issue. But I don't know how this works with solid state. I think it is peachy and I'll just lose volume but I'm not sure. Any ideas?
