if and can I run a DSL100 full using a 1960a and a Mesa standard w v-30's?

j3po · 10-14-2009, 10:43 AM

thats what I have Is it even posable?
I love both cabs and am just curious how they would sound together.
Being different ohms i dont know where to start.
any help and advice would be greatly appreciated

Jesstaa · 10-14-2009, 10:46 AM

If they're different ohms it aint gonna work, unless the Mesa is 4 ohms, but I doubt it.

thrawn86 · 10-14-2009, 07:29 PM

1960a should be a 16 ohm cabinet, meaning the Mesa has to be 16 ohms as well to work this way. If you had two 1960's, you'd set the amp for 8 ohms, because they're 16 ohm cabs.

Wilder Amplification · 10-18-2009, 03:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Jesstaa

If they're different ohms it aint gonna work, unless the Mesa is 4 ohms, but I doubt it.

Bullshit. It WILL NOT work with a 4 ohm because that will drop the impedance lower than 4 ohms when hooked up across a 16 ohm cab.

However, if one cab is 16 ohms and the other is 8, it will work. You'll end up with something like 5.3 ohms...slight mismatch to the 4 ohm setting on your amp but it's not enough of a mismatch to matter or hurt anything.

Now, if the Mesa cab is in fact 4 ohms and all the speakers are 16 ohm in the Mesa cab (since they're V30s I'm thinknig they are...IIRC I don't even think they ever made a 4 ohm V30), this means that the speakers in the Mesa cab are currently hooked up parallel and you can rewire the cab series-parallel and make it into a 16 ohm cab. Then it will match your 1960 cab and you can run them on the 8 ohm setting.

Fcal124 · 10-19-2009, 10:20 AM

Wilder is right. I have 3 Mesa cabs set at 8 Ohms and all the speakers are 16 Ohm.
It's an easy fix.

Wilder Amplification · 10-19-2009, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Fcal124

Wilder is right. I have 3 Mesa cabs set at 8 Ohms and all the speakers are 16 Ohm.
It's an easy fix.

Assuming your cabs are 4x12 cabs, how were you able to get 8 ohms out of four 16 ohm speakers?

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Fcal124 Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: S.I., N.Y. Posts: 13	Re: if and can I run a DSL100 full using a 1960a and a Mesa standard w v-30's? Wilder is right. I have 3 Mesa cabs set at 8 Ohms and all the speakers are 16 Ohm. It's an easy fix.

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