bluesjunior
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About a year ago I built a bandmaster sized tweed covered pine cabinet for my 1998 green board Fender BJr'. I added 2 x 8" 4ohm Eminence 820H speakers wired in series giving an 8ohm output and sitting above the original 8ohm 12" Eminence Special Design speaker in a triangle. As the amp has a single 8ohm output jack I gave them each a jack and have used them seperately since then, either the single 12" or the 2 x 8".
I play mostly at home nowadays in my attic converted workshop/music room and over the last year found that I much prefer the sound of the 2 x 8" over the single 12" but would still like to hear them together. So last week as a test I bought a so called Y cable, ie 1 x male 1/4" jack with two seperate 1/4" female sockets and plugged the two speaker systems into it to hear what it sounded like. I really liked the sound actually, not so trebly as the single 12" and not so mid rangy as the 2 x 8" just a nice combination of the two. As far as I can figure out, doing this is giving me a combined speaker ohms output of 4ohms which I was told before was not a very good idea.
My setup is the BJr' with the Master volume at 12 and the vol/gain at 3. From the guitar I run into a wah pedal to a tremelo pedal to a delay pedal then into a Boss FBM1 bassman pedal then into an Audio Storm VBM volume control box. I have the BJr' set up for a nice clean sound and set the FBM1 for mild crunch which I can increase as needed via the 25db Dennis Cornell mid boost system in my strat and use the VBM as a master volume and I am very happy with this as I get to my ears an acceptable compromise between volume and tone at so called "bedroom" level".
Now I found out that I could get an upgraded Hammond 1760F output transformer for the BJr' that would give me 4/8/16ohm options with the addition of a rotary switch and if no other option was open then I would likely go for it but it means laying out more cash and then if I couldn't do it myself even more for a tech to do it. I thought I would ask you experienced techs here at the TGP, before I make a final decision on this and taking into consideration that as I play mostly at home at low volume what are the short or long term chances or even dangers of me blowing up or destroying the amp playing it through the Y cable like I just did?.
I play mostly at home nowadays in my attic converted workshop/music room and over the last year found that I much prefer the sound of the 2 x 8" over the single 12" but would still like to hear them together. So last week as a test I bought a so called Y cable, ie 1 x male 1/4" jack with two seperate 1/4" female sockets and plugged the two speaker systems into it to hear what it sounded like. I really liked the sound actually, not so trebly as the single 12" and not so mid rangy as the 2 x 8" just a nice combination of the two. As far as I can figure out, doing this is giving me a combined speaker ohms output of 4ohms which I was told before was not a very good idea.
My setup is the BJr' with the Master volume at 12 and the vol/gain at 3. From the guitar I run into a wah pedal to a tremelo pedal to a delay pedal then into a Boss FBM1 bassman pedal then into an Audio Storm VBM volume control box. I have the BJr' set up for a nice clean sound and set the FBM1 for mild crunch which I can increase as needed via the 25db Dennis Cornell mid boost system in my strat and use the VBM as a master volume and I am very happy with this as I get to my ears an acceptable compromise between volume and tone at so called "bedroom" level".
Now I found out that I could get an upgraded Hammond 1760F output transformer for the BJr' that would give me 4/8/16ohm options with the addition of a rotary switch and if no other option was open then I would likely go for it but it means laying out more cash and then if I couldn't do it myself even more for a tech to do it. I thought I would ask you experienced techs here at the TGP, before I make a final decision on this and taking into consideration that as I play mostly at home at low volume what are the short or long term chances or even dangers of me blowing up or destroying the amp playing it through the Y cable like I just did?.
