All you need is a female adapter on both ends, unplug the speaker cable from the combo on the back and plug that into one end of the adapter and then use a male to male and plug that in the other end of the female adapter and the other in the line out of the head. Easier. Make sure the speaker is compatible. This way you don't alter anything you combo just becomes a cabinet. I 've done this for years with no issues.

@nainishjain1625

Ай бұрын

What about power and all ?

Got me a 2x12 that I wanna do this to. Thanks for the vid. Only one I found with good info

@FretNinja

3 жыл бұрын

Sweet glad I could help!

@jamescjr84

3 жыл бұрын

totally agree, Brayden.

I'm happy I found this channel. I got one of the crappy MG 250 DFX combo amps, but I'm going to stack a JVM 210H head on top. I didn't know if it was a possibility until now. Thank you, sir!

Neat work around. Just wanted to add, the existing speaker terminals you unplugged weren’t insulated. If the combo amp was inadvertently plugged in then you might damage the combo’s amp if they short out. If it were mine I would just add a small amount of heat shrink over the bare spade ends to eliminate this possibility.

Nice job sounds great

Awesome, just what I wanted.

Awesome! I just did this. Thank you!

This is the kind of video that I was looking for thank you 😂

You could just cut the end off an old speaker cable and add the connectors, or solder the wires to the speaker terminals 👍

Good job cheers.

Great video! It would be possible somehow, bypass the peavey pre-amp, to use de marshall pre-amp with the peavey power amp? Maybe connecting the send of one in the return of the other.

Fender has the pre made connect for $6.99.I ordered one a few days ago.

I tried taking 1 speaker out of a cab and doing basically this same thing and it didn’t work. I thought it just needed some wiring that was on the cab. What could’ve went wrong? I have a katana 100w head that has a rating for 8 ohms and I plugged it into a 25 watt 16 ohm speaker

Can I do this with a standard speaker cable?

Ear Candy makes a pre-made connect for about $30

So if I'm working with a 2x12 combo, how about I go about wiring?

great - i got a 2nd hand epihphone tube combo amp that sounded great - until it died .....i loved that things cabinet - about to throw it out - untill i thought ....hmmmm , what if i just use it as a cab ? So your idea has got me curious now if it will work with a joyo bantamp ????

Ok so this may be a stupid question, provided the peavey amp is not on, why do you need to disconnect the peavey amp wires from the speaker when using the marshall amp?, thank you for any info on this..

Can you do this with a digital combo amp?

Thanks for this tutorial. I do have a question…. If I have two combo amps and I want to use the speaker of just one of those amps and add it to the other combo amp with the cable you built, what do I plug into the combo amp with the powerhead that I’m using ? I would like to use my hot rod Deville as a power amp so I’m not sure what I should use as the input for the other speaker. Should it be preamp in or preamp out? I see no extra Jack input on the back of this amp for adding another speaker. Thanks for your help.

@FretNinja

3 жыл бұрын

If your hot rod Deville doesn't have an "ext cab out" type jack on the rear then you can't use this style of cable but what you can do is unplug the speaker inputs on the speaker itself and build an extension cable to run it to the other speaker. That would make it act like the speaker you want to use is sitting in the hot rod cab.

@musicmatty67

3 жыл бұрын

@@FretNinja I really don't understand what you mean about an extension cable and connecting that to the speaker I would like to use and how would I connect that to the hot rod DeVille?

@stephenhookings1985

Жыл бұрын

​@@musicmatty67 you can get Cliff Jacks. These look like normal 1/4 inch except when nothing is plugged into them there are two bars that connect signal and when you plug a lead in then those bars move up, disconnect a signal path allowing you to switch it somewhere else. You notice on the Peavey combo show it says External Speaker. That is likely using a Cliff jack. Unplugged it connects combo amp to internal speaker. Plugging suitable lead in diverts signal to the cable and disconnects internal speaker. CAREFUL- Peavey shown is valve/tube. It needs a speaker of right impedance connected when on. So don't just plug a cable unconnected to a working speaker of correct impedance. You can add these Cliff jacks to a combo if there is space and you are careful. I wouldn't do it to a tube amp unless you are skilled in this area. What you seem to want is one amp powers two speakers? As said above - heads (and a combo is an amp permanently connected to a speaker) often need to be connected to a suitable speaker. These External Speaker Cliff Jacks disconnect internal speaker and route to a different speaker. What you are describing is like a 2 x 12 cabinet. Wiring these doesn't have to be complicated - but it is easy to mess it up. So Google cabinet wiring and hopefully you will see what needs to be done. Pay attention to series, parallel and series in parallel. Get familiar with impedance - else you might blow your amp, speaker coil, cone or all of the above. Best of luck

Hi , my head amp only has 2 "speaker outputs" without any label over them, and it works with 4ohm or 8ohm speakers. How do i connect it to my 4ohm speaker? Thanks

if my head amp has 8 ohm output, but my speaker 16 ohm, will it work?

Hi RP, I own a fender hot rod deluxe and I am thinking of buying Marshall DSL 20 head. Can i use a quarter in jack connector (female to female) to connect speaker cable jack end into the connector and from there Marshall amp cable out. Basically to avoid soldering and wire stripping to connect two shovels (-/+) for speaker. I hope I am explaining right 😁

@thejusticeization

2 жыл бұрын

yes

Can i buy a cabel like this ?

But now you can't use the Pevey. There must be a way to set it up so you can switch back and forth between the Pevey and the Marshall.

@stephenhookings1985

Жыл бұрын

The Peavey is a valve / tube amp by the looks of it. So if you are using the mod that allows the Marshall to drive Peavey's speaker then better make sure the Peavey isn't on else it will damage the transformer. Any switched solution would need the operator to not forget this.

Since the speaker has 4 speaker outputs, is it possible to have both the combo head and the Marshall head connected, and operate whichever you want at a time?

@h3ad5p4c3

6 ай бұрын

This is what I'm wondering too...

@mikeus77

6 ай бұрын

@@h3ad5p4c3 It is. I did it. You just need to be careful not to have both amps turned on at the same time. I can’t guarantee what would happen 😅

How about the watt and ohms? You can't just connect a head to any combo amp without checking those specs, you can burn the head or speaker

@FretNinja

2 жыл бұрын

Yes you need to make sure the speaker you're using is the same ohms as the speaker from your cabinet (or compatible). Wattage is not as important as long as you aren't running it flat out

Q: At 3:39 you have the shot of the speaker connected. The speaker has 2 terminals for positive and 2 for negative? Why is that? And could you have left the combo’s amp still connected AND connect the Marshall with the spare terminals there? (Just making sure one is definitely turned off at a time.)

@FretNinja

3 жыл бұрын

Most guitar speakers are just built with 2 terminals each and I believe it's probably for series/parallel wiring option flexibility. I wouldn't connect 2 amps to the same speaker at the same time but I couldn't tell you why not to do that either. Maybe someone more in tune with electronics could chime in.

@WinnieRoo1138

3 жыл бұрын

@@FretNinja, I know, it just sounds wrong to even bring it up. ;) But, like you, I have a combo I love and Want to get a head; so this option would be great for me, but I don’t want to keep wearing down the terminals whenever I want to switch the sound. Just curious.

@ultrakool

Жыл бұрын

@@FretNinja from what I gathered researching this, there would be too much power doing that and you'd blow something, but that is only what I read

@stephenhookings1985

Жыл бұрын

​@@ultrakool so a combo amp is just an amp head with permanently wired speaker. The extra terminals are, as stated, for connecting additional speakers. You can connect in series (impedance adds), parallel (new = ( A x B) / (A + B)) or series-parallel Most probably two terminals go to same positive and two to same negative. So you could run two sets of wires from two different "heads" and only power one at once. But better to use a switch EXCEPT the Peavey seems to be valve / tube. You never want to run that without a speaker load when switched on. So the user would need to be disciplined to not make that mistake. Cliff jacks allow neat switching - but remember to only power the valve / tube amp when it is connected to a suitable speaker (or dummy load). And never be tempted to use an instrument cable in that jack socket!

So do you just have to check how many ohms it says on the speaker itself and make sure it matches the ohms of the amplifier head?

@trentrichards7072

Жыл бұрын

Yes

I’m just curious. I heard it’s bad to use a regular instrument cable to connect an amp head and cab. Your supposed to buy the specific thicker speaker cable. So which cable plug do I use to solder speaker wire onto and not risk damaging the amp?

@FretNinja

Жыл бұрын

You'll want to use a speaker wire like you would use to connect a speaker to a receiver in a home theater system. Something like this would be perfect: amzn.to/3iYLcnZ

@richardburchett

Жыл бұрын

You can't use a shielded cable like a guitar cable. It has to be unshielded

@kornelijekovac9793

9 ай бұрын

@@richardburchett It's not about the shielding, but high current from the guitar amplifier output. It needs greater wire cross section. You'd want something like 2 x 1,5 mm^2 wire. It should be something like AWG16. Some even go bigger than that, but you'll have a hard time fitting and soldering such a "fat" wire into 6,35 mm jack.

Can i technically just plug it into the input and just turn off all the stuff to make it clean

@masonstone179

8 ай бұрын

I got a Frontman 212r that would work as a great cabinet and i wanna put a Boss Katana 100 mk2 head on it

what gauge speaker wire, 16 or 14?

@FretNinja

3 жыл бұрын

I used 12awg here for the best signal. 14 and 16 should both be good unless your amp is really powerful but I wouldn't go any higher than that.

@jamescjr84

3 жыл бұрын

@@FretNinja ok. i just said 16 or 14 because your using blue spade connectors & the blue ones I found on Amazon says 16-14 AWG Connectors. Does the connector color matter?

@RyansGadgetGarage-

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamescjr84 nah the connector colour doesn't matter. The colours do represent gauge sizes but only in the sense of being approximately the right size to fit onto the end of that size wire. Red is the smallest, blue in the middle, yellow the biggest. Each one is a range though and although yellow is usually listed as 10-12, you can cram a 12awg into a blue and it will work fine too. The wire gauge is the more important factor because of the current handling properties.

@jamescjr84

3 жыл бұрын

@@RyansGadgetGarage- ok great, thanks. I'll select the ones for 12AWG.

@jamescjr84

3 жыл бұрын

So I'm attempting this right now. You said "solder & crimp the spade connector" do you mean solder the individual(positive & negative) copper wires together & then slide on the connectors? Also I see where the positive gets soldered on the jack but what do I do with the negative?