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Haha! I knew what you meant!

Yep it’s amazing how loud they are especially on a 4×12! Throw a little boost pedal in front and it is just screaming! Might be worth using an EQ pedal too. I have an MXR ten band eq pedal and that does the trick for boosting my amp AND dialing in different tones. If you get the Kerry King model of the MXR M-108 it has two output jacks so you can split you signal into your Class 5 and your MG at the same time. Just a thought… lol The only difference between the Kerry King model and the standard M-108 is the graphics that are painted on it and the fact that it has two outputs where the standard has only one.

Your cab doesn’t say on the back what the impedance is? There should be a little plate there with some info on it. Cabs are usually 4, 8 or 16 ohms resistance. It is important to match the resistance of the cab with what your amp is pushing. It can vary in cabs. If the speakers are wired in series then you just add up the resistance of each speaker to get the total. If they are wired in parallel then it is a bit different. There is a formula (not a complicated one) if I’m not mistaken it is the ohms of one of the speakers divided by the number of speakers. In my case, in my combo I have two 16 ohm speakers wired in parallel so I have to set the switch on the back of my amp to 8 ohms since 16 divided by 2 = 8. If you had a 4×12 with four 16 ohm speakers in it you would have 16 / 4 = 4 which means your amp would have to be set to 4 ohms. Then you get another wiring type called series/parallel which is a combination of the two. So in a 4 x 12 situation with four 16 ohm speakers you would get two sets of two wired in parallel to giving two set of 8 ohms that would then be wired together in series to get a total of 16 ohms. There are a few ways to wire a cab depending on these things. To answer your question though, if you want to find the resistance of your cab just plug the speaker cable into the cab and use a multimeter set to ohms on the other end to find what it is. It might not show exactly as 8 or 16, it might be 7.79 or 15.7 or whatever but that is ok. You basically want it as close as possible so if it reads 15.7 you want your amp to be set at 16 and not 4 or 8 obviously. The tip of the wire is + so just touch the end of the red lead from your multimeter to it and the black lead to the side of the shaft to get the reading. If you get the colors backwards it’s okay it will just read as a – on the meter but will be the same number. Hope that helps. I would find out though so you don’t eventually damage the power tube and transformer in your amp.

I’m pretty sure the that head has a switch so you can use one or the other. It won’t hurt it if you have it plugged into the wrong one for a while but after prolonged use that way it could have some effect on the amp. There is a difference in sound for sure when set at 8 or 16 ohms. I think the lower the ohms the harder the amp has to work to push the speakers so that changes to sound a bit. Of course the cab and speakers themselves will change the sound a lot too. I guess it’s a matter of preference when it comes down to it.

Just make absolutely sure that whatever tube amp you are using it is ALWAYS plugged into some sort of speaker! lol Better to have the wrong load than no load because that is a SURE way to F#@! your amp right up!
Hey Ryley where are you from anyway?

My name is Chris. I live in Sherbrooke, Quebec my fellow Canuck! What province are you from?

Don’t think I’ve ever been as far as Windsor. Furthest I’ve gone down that way is Niagara Falls, Welland, Port Colborne area. Have a couple friends from there and who moved there though. I wonder how many others here are form Canada? By the way Sherbrooke is about an hour and a half East of Montreal not far from the Vermont border.

Do you have a band?

Got a band but haven’t been playing with them for a while now. Unfortunately “life” gets in the way sometimes.

Been mainly playing at home on my own for a while now, trying to record some ideas of my own and stuff. I’m due to get back with them though I can tell you that! They’re a cool bunch of guys, they have another guitar player now but they tell me I am welcome back whenever I’m ready.

Yeah it’s hard to find people that it “clicks” with. It’s also hard to find people who really listen when they jam with others. I’ve played with people before who are really technically good but they can’t jam with others or improvise for shit! If someone makes a mistake while playing you can’t just stop the song and you can’t just keep going playing your own thing. You have to be able to adapt and jump back into it (with a smile too!) and you can only do that if you are really listening to everyone else which unfortunately many do not do. I played bass in a band for a while and the drummer we had was awesome at that. We were always in tune with each other because we were always paying attention and focusing on grooving together above all else. We had to, we were the backbone of the band! If your rhythm section is tight it makes it easier for the rest to fall into place. Or so I’ve noticed.

Will do man. I’ll add you to my FB right now.