guitar - What is the difference between an amp and a head?
Jul 20, 2014 · A head is simply the name for an amplifier without a speaker. Your friends won't have heads on top of amps, they'll have heads on top of speakers (with the head driving the speaker). The "basic guitar amp" you have at the moment, is probably an amplifier and speaker combined in one cabinet. These are commonly called combos.
electric guitar - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange
Dec 1, 2014 · That means your amp is designed to put out its rated power with a specific ratio of voltage to current. The amp will pretty much put out how much voltage it's putting out in any situation, and it's designed to put out a certain amount of current along with that. Designed meaning that if it is not allowed to put out all the current it can, then ...
guitar - Can I plug my amp directly into my audio interface?
Jul 17, 2014 · If your amp has a "line out" or headphones jack, then you should be able to connect that to the audio interface. Note that usually this means that the output is low impedendence, and the amount of pre amp gain that you'll need is lower than you'd need for plugging the guitar straight in (the amplifier is providing some initial amplification).
How to connect a 16 ohm and an 8 ohm cabinet to the same amp …
Jun 21, 2013 · Dr Mayhem has answered correctly. There is no harm in running a higher ohm cab than the amp. The problem is when you run a higher ohm amp than a cab, like an 8 ohm amp with a 4 ohm cab. The current goes back onto the output transformer. The key is for amp (tube) to always have the amp with lower ohms than the cab.
What's the difference between bass and guitar heads?
Feb 25, 2016 · Historically, most guitar amps are combos - meaning the amp head and speaker cabinet are combined into one. Guitar speakers don't have to deal with the low frequencies, thus smaller speakers are more common (for cleaner reproduction of the higher frequencies a regular guitar produces), and open backed cabinets can be effectively used reducing ...
Guitar head with bass cabinet - Music: Practice & Theory Stack …
Jan 23, 2018 · Guitar amps are really specialized and aren't good for anything else. As you say, keyboard and bass amps are often quite similar and one can be used for the other in a pinch. PA cabinets are much closer to keyboard/bass/acoustic cabinets but usually have even wider and more even frequency response and higher power handling, except for the low ...
guitar - Can I connect an amplifier head to the top of my existing …
Oct 4, 2012 · In addition to rewiring the amp, as Dr Mayhem noted, there's another general option. A guitar amp consists of two separate amps a pre and a power amp. In general, the pre amp is used for your tone and the power amp is used for volume (yes, yes, they both affect each, we're talking pretty general here). If your amp has an effects loop, this loop ...
electric guitar - Direct recording an amp head with my audio …
May 24, 2020 · There must be a speaker of some sort connected to the amp - either its internal speaker, an external cab., or 'phones. Using 'spkr out' to connect to anything else will damage the amp., and whatever it's connected to. Don't do it!
guitar cabinet: why not just use a PA speaker cabinet?
Jun 6, 2011 · For Guitar, I totally agree with using PA amplifiers and cabinets loaded with ProAudio speakers, provided you are using a high-end guitar processor such as Fractal Axe FX, Avid Eleven rack, Roland VG99, etc. Virtually all guitar amplifiers include coloration such as tone controls, distortion/overdrive, presence, reverb, that would need to be ...
guitar - Switching amp heads with pedal - Music: Practice
Oct 5, 2016 · In the example above you'll see a head rack, or something similar to it. Each one of these amp heads are connected to a cabinet (usually mic'd offstage, to control bleed and stage volume/mix), although a product like the ToneBone Head Switcher can connect multiple heads to one cabinet, in fact it can do you're #2) requirement exactly. It's amazing.