Safe to run C2 through solid state amp?

[Whitneydrew35]

Recently picked up a free C2 (lucky find) and want to play it but dont have the money to put towards a leslie and wont have any for awhile. (Im just a kid still in school so i dont have a lot of money) Anyways, I am putting a 1/4" line out on it so i can run it through an amp and was wondering if its safe to run it through my solid state marshall or vox amp? or straight into an audio interface with studio monitor speakers? it probably is okay but im new to hammonds and i just want to be safe with everything i do because i dont want to damage any of my equipment. Thanks!
-Drew

[enor]

With a properly built line out (like the one I described in your other thread) it's perfectly fine to plug it in to whatever amp/mixer/speaker/interface you might have.

[Whitneydrew35]

Thankyou very much for both of your responses. you have been very helpful :)

[Papus]

Hi Drew,

Welcome to Hammond World.
Down the rabbit hole you go....... :)
I’m not sure of your experience or knowledge of Hammond music.
Here’s a sample of a C3 into a Marshall stack.
Hopefully this whets your appetite and inspires you to experiment - even without a Leslie.
If you’re unfamiliar with the great Jon Lord, his music is as good a place as any to introduce some Hammond chaos!

https://youtu.be/pXHi84bSJyw

[Whitneydrew35]

Hahaha I’m only 17 and I’m just starting to get into hammonds! I own an M3 and have had another m3 and l112 that I’ve saved from going to the dump and fixed up to working order again thanks to this forum haha.. I’m just starting to understand the basic maintenance and working on them and I’m loving it. And I just got an old C2 which I’m even more excited about. So my knowledge for working on them isn’t the best but I started to get into them after getting into 60’s psychedelic rock and listening to every single album and band I could get my hands on. From there I found Jon Lord, Kieth Emerson, Ray Manzarek (on LA woman mostly) and tons of other bands and organists that used Hammonds. And right now I’ve been getting more into Jimmy Smith haha . I’m afraid that when I’m 40 I’ll need another house to store all my hammonds! Hahaha. Thankyou for the welcome :) I already love hammonds and don’t plan on ever not loving them.
-Drew

[KC9UDX]

If it weren't for building codes, you could start now and have a house made of organs by the time you're 40. You could charge admission.

[Whitneydrew35]

Good idea. I’ll get on that, better keep it secret and only this forum will know about it...

[UncleClark]

Yea, it’s ok to use a solid state amp.
I connected my RT-2 to a crown XLS-1000 power amp using a balanced connection. The power amp has an internal crossover that I set to 800 hz. The bass channel powered the lower rotor and the treble channel powered the upper rotor of a Leslie 900 that was missing its amp. Worked great. Tons of power! You have to attenuate the output of the console with resistors though.