How do you hook up a Marshall amp?

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Can an amp head go with any cabinet?

You can generally use your head with any cab (as long as the impedance matches up), and vice versa. This makes gigging, recording, rehearsing with a band and even upgrading your rig super easy. Youll also be transporting both components separately, which can make gigging and soundchecking a whole lot easier.

How do you hook up a combo amp to a cabinet?

using a combo amp as a headYou can use the line-out speaker jack on your combo amp to connect a speaker cable directly from your combo to the external cabinet.You can disconnect the speaker and head parts of your combo, and solder a jack onto the head unit cable to connect it an external cabinet.

Can you use an amp head without a cabinet?

No. Even if your head has a line/headphone out, you still need a dummy load. A dummy load provides the necessary load for the output without a speaker cabinet to make the sound. If you try to use your headphones, the wattage wont find the right load and the amp will be under constant stress because it is overworked.

How do you match a guitar head to a cabinet?

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What is a combo amp?

Combos (short for combinations) are self-contained units containing the amplifier and speaker in one cabinet. Amps also come in separate head and speaker cabinets. These allow you to use any amp head with virtually any speaker cabinet.

What does gain do on a amp?

Your gain setting determines how hard youre driving the preamp section of your amp. Setting the gain control sets the level of distortion in your tone, regardless of how loud the final volume is set.

Can you plug headphones into a guitar head?

You cannot plug headphones directly into an electric guitar. Even if you buy an adapter to fit your headphones into the guitars jack, it wont work. If you plug your headphones into your electric guitar, you wont hear anything. The guitar needs something to amplify the signal before it reaches your headphones.

How do you match amp head to cabinet?

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Is a tube amp louder than a solid state?

No. However they do SOUND louder. A solid state amplifier of the same power as a tube amp may distort at the same signal level as the tube amp, but the distortions are not subtle, and we hear them as distortion, not as a slightly louder sound.

What should my LPF be set at?

As a general rule, the Low-Pass Filter should be set at a value approximately equal to (or below) 70% of your main speakers lowest frequency response.

Where should I set my amp gain?

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