what Marshall with a Hammond? What about speakers?

[dwagar]

I have toyed with the idea of trying out my A100 though a Marshall - I do have a line out box fitted.</p>

But, is it safe to run Hammond frequencies through a tube guitar head? I have 2 tube Marshalls, but I don't own a solid state one.
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And what about guitar speakers? I don't want to risk them, Is it safer to use a bass cab?</p>

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[Guest]

Re: what Marshall with a Hammond? What about speakers?



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should be safe. tubes are much more tolerant to large excursion input voltages than transistor stages.At line level input, you should be able to get good and nasty overdrive.</P>


To save your speakers from potentially nasty bass excursions, start off with the amp's Bass control turned all the way down and try some single notes first, then some chords. Guitar amps are designed for bursty audio that comes from a guitar rather than more constant tone from an organ, so you won't be able to turn it up as far. Its kind of like the music power versus RMS power game that seem to be popular in the consumer Hi-Fi world. The Guitar will hit music power heights that an amp can produce in short bursts, often several times the actual designed RMS power rating, but the organ will really excercise it's sustained RMS power capability.</P>


...and for heaven's sake, don't go to 11 ;-)</P>


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[dwagar]

Re: what Marshall with a Hammond? What about speakers?

thanks, yeah, I'm going to have to give this a try, at a reasonable volume level of course, haha.