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I've got a 68 Dual Showman head with a '72 2x15 cabinet.
It's got a wicked hum/buzz when turned on and the volume is
limited.
I had the speakers reconed recently, and tested the head on a
seperate cabinet. Both sound incredible apart, but together they
sound like crap.
Any ideas on what to do?
Trace
Try a new speaker cable between the head and the guitar. Sounds like you
might have plugged in a guitar cable or something. Then plug the AC into a
different outlet, try that. If you have any pedals, get em out of there, and
see how it sounds, if it's fine, then add em in one at a time till you
figure out which one's killing you.
If the head works fine on another cab, its the '72 cab...probably something
with the jack.
-Dano
-=The Nebulas=-
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>Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Dual Showman ?
>Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 05:27:48 -0000
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>I've got a 68 Dual Showman head with a '72 2x15 cabinet.
>It's got a wicked hum/buzz when turned on and the volume is
>limited.
>I had the speakers reconed recently, and tested the head on a
>seperate cabinet. Both sound incredible apart, but together they
>sound like crap.
>Any ideas on what to do?
>
>Trace
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I know it may be obvious but check to make sure your impedance is
matched from head to cab-how you have your speakers are wired
(parallel or series according to the impedance of the individual
speakers).
If that doesn't do it and you're saying both head and cab sound great
apart but not together then I would ask if the head is connected to
the cab via a dedicated speaker cable. If so, it could be that it is
a bad cable. My 0.02. JWL (aka Dario)
--- In , "trace_luger" <luger@c...>
wrote:
> I've got a 68 Dual Showman head with a '72 2x15 cabinet.
> It's got a wicked hum/buzz when turned on and the volume is
> limited.
> I had the speakers reconed recently, and tested the head on a
> seperate cabinet. Both sound incredible apart, but together they
> sound like crap.
> Any ideas on what to do?
>
> Trace
When I had the cabinet checked, the tech found that someone
had put a crossover in the cabinet. We couldn't figure out why
since the cab is only 15's, no tweeters. He took the crossover out
and put the speakers parallel. I'm pretty much an idiot when it
comes to these things, so I just agreed.
Speaker/Total impedance is 8/4
--- In , "jimmywilseylives"
<jimmywilseylives@y...> wrote:
> I know it may be obvious but check to make sure your
impedance is
> matched from head to cab-how you have your speakers are
wired
> (parallel or series according to the impedance of the individual
> speakers).
> If that doesn't do it and you're saying both head and cab sound
great
> apart but not together then I would ask if the head is connected
to
> the cab via a dedicated speaker cable. If so, it could be that it is
> a bad cable. My 0.02. JWL (aka Dario)
>
> --- In , "trace_luger"
<luger@c...>
> wrote:
> > I've got a 68 Dual Showman head with a '72 2x15 cabinet.
> > It's got a wicked hum/buzz when turned on and the volume is
> > limited.
> > I had the speakers reconed recently, and tested the head on
a
> > seperate cabinet. Both sound incredible apart, but together
they
> > sound like crap.
> > Any ideas on what to do?
> >
> > Trace
Sorry, It's actually a 1967 Dual Showman Head, Black Face.
I had a 68 Bassman, and I keep screwing the year up.
> --- In , "jimmywilseylives"
> <jimmywilseylives@y...> wrote:
> > I know it may be obvious but check to make sure your
> impedance is
> > matched from head to cab-how you have your speakers are
> wired
> > (parallel or series according to the impedance of the
individual
> > speakers).
> > If that doesn't do it and you're saying both head and cab
sound
> great
> > apart but not together then I would ask if the head is
connected
> to
> > the cab via a dedicated speaker cable. If so, it could be that it
is
> > a bad cable. My 0.02. JWL (aka Dario)
> >
> > --- In , "trace_luger"
> <luger@c...>
> > wrote:
> > > I've got a 68 Dual Showman head with a '72 2x15 cabinet.
> > > It's got a wicked hum/buzz when turned on and the volume
is
> > > limited.
> > > I had the speakers reconed recently, and tested the head
on
> a
> > > seperate cabinet. Both sound incredible apart, but together
> they
> > > sound like crap.
> > > Any ideas on what to do?
> > >
> > > Trace
