Re: How can I make a spk simulator load

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:24:57 GMT, Chris Hornbeck
<chrishornbeckremovethis@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:55:03 -0400, Robbie <RoboFork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>My cousin loves my little 6BQ5 guitar amp, it has great compression and crunch,
>>but he wants to use a quad 6L6 amp on stage, 100 watts. I told him I could put a
>>high gain circuit into his amp but it wouldn't be the same, for tons of reasons
>>I won't go into here, so we though we could mic the little amp into the big amp.
>>Then we thought better, we could install the small amp into the big amp and use
>>it as the high gain channel... but now the rub becomes the speaker load... I
>>think the spk contributes to the 'crunch' of the amp, so any dummy load would
>>have to be like the spk.
>>
>>I guess if we have to we'll run a small speaker all the time, but that's so NOT
>>scientific!
>
>The greatest thing I ever saw in my own personal sorry life was Patti
>Smith's gig on Saturday Nite Live about three decades ago. Her opening
>number was Van's "G-L-O-R-I-A" and the closing number was a Who cover
>of "My G-G-Generation", including trashing the stage and her PigNose
>exiting.

The greatest thing I ever saw was some drugged out rock star getting his mic
caught in the security rope as he twirled it on it's cord, and the security boys
had to untangle it while the band (Steppenwolfe) continued repeating the phrase,
but I digress... ???

>In stage terms, voices, mic'd amps, etc. etc. are all same-same. Still
>no clue what you're about, based on your postings. But it sounds like
>you want to be mic'ing the geetar speaker.

Sort of, but instead of a mic I want to use a copper pair...

>Good fortune,

'merci de le cul de mon coeur'...

>Chris Hornbeck

Robbie
In Outer Space

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