Can you plug in an amp head and a regular amp?
Well i am getting a Peavey valve king head and i have have an Raven RG60 watt and there is a jack so you can plug in something. so i was thinking if i could put it in
Yeah but you better find out what the speaker impedance on that Raven is, so that you know which jack to use on the Peavey (4, 8 or 16 ohms). Don’t assume that if you use the 4 ohm output it will be safe, because at 100 watts, 4 Ohms puts out 43% more electrical current than the 8 Ohms. This is why you should NEVER plug a 16 Ohm speaker cabinet into a lesser-ohmed jack on your head. Yet, plugging an 8 Ohm speaker cabinet into the 16 Ohm output of your Amp head may not always cause damage right away if at all. Yes, it seems backwards, but it is the real deal. So the moral of the story is…. try to match them if possible. If not, use the jack with a higher ohms number than your speaker impedance.
Also, wattage output on heads is generally related to the output volume knob. If you crank that 100w Peavey at max volume all the time then you will wear out the 60w Raven and damage the speakers. If you play at around the 2 to 5 volume level then you are not putting out nearly 100 watts and the Raven will be able to handle it.
yes, you can do it, but it’s not really practical. Your normal all in one amp is going to be calibrated to the limits of the speaker underneath and if you put a much bigger head on it could blow it out. If the wattage of the speaker meets or exceeds that of the head then you’re fine and it’s definitely possible. You would hook it up in the same way you’d do it with a regular speaker
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Yeah but you better find out what the speaker impedance on that Raven is, so that you know which jack to use on the Peavey (4, 8 or 16 ohms). Don’t assume that if you use the 4 ohm output it will be safe, because at 100 watts, 4 Ohms puts out 43% more electrical current than the 8 Ohms. This is why you should NEVER plug a 16 Ohm speaker cabinet into a lesser-ohmed jack on your head. Yet, plugging an 8 Ohm speaker cabinet into the 16 Ohm output of your Amp head may not always cause damage right away if at all. Yes, it seems backwards, but it is the real deal. So the moral of the story is…. try to match them if possible. If not, use the jack with a higher ohms number than your speaker impedance.
Also, wattage output on heads is generally related to the output volume knob. If you crank that 100w Peavey at max volume all the time then you will wear out the 60w Raven and damage the speakers. If you play at around the 2 to 5 volume level then you are not putting out nearly 100 watts and the Raven will be able to handle it.
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If you want to play your new head through the speaker in the Raven, you will take the speaker plug out of the back of the Raven and plug it into the speaker jack on the Peavey, so that the Peavey sends signal directly to the Raven’s speaker. If you do this, you will NOT want to turn on the Raven’s amp. Basically, you are using your old Raven as a speaker box, and not using its amp. If you play it too loud, you will probably blow the Ravens speaker. But it will work good enough to test the Peavey so you know if it works.
If you use the line out of the Peavey, but don’t have a speaker plugged into it’s speaker jack, you will blow it’s circuitry. When it’s putting out power, it must have a load, such as a speaker to dissipate the energy.
An amp has two parts. "Pre" amp for tone controls, and "power" amp to drive the speakers. "Line out" allows you to tap off your preamp. "Line in" feeds signal back into the power amp. This can be used for effects, or recording consoles, or driving a "slave" amp. You could use the Raven as a slave. But you still need a speaker load on the Peavey, or kaboom. Buy a speaker cab!
To make it simple, if you want to use both amps at once, each will need its own speaker. Take the line out of the "master" and plug it into the line in of the "slave". The controls of the master will work for both, and the slaves preamp will not be used. That’s how it works.
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