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#52168 - 12/26/12 04:26 AM Marshall JCM 800 Bass head - into 4 cabs?
RalphRobinson stranger Registered: 12/26/12 Posts: 2 Loc: North Yorkshire	Now then, wondering if any of you can help me out with this... I have a JCM 800 Bass series head (with a 4, 8 or 16ohm selector) and four 8ohm JCM 800 bass series cabs. I was wondering if there was any way of hooking all four of the cabs up to the one head. Doing the math, even if I set the ohmage on the head to 16, the ohmage on the cabs would have to be 4 (16 divided by 4 = 4) Am i right? There's gotta be a way to do it though, any ideas? Thanks - Ralph
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#52171 - 12/26/12 05:48 AM Re: Marshall JCM 800 Bass head - into 4 cabs? [Re: RalphRobinson]
Iron Fist addict Registered: 07/13/08 Posts: 571 Loc: Confoederatio Helvetica	I've never done that. Usually you connect a max. of two cabs. Lets assume each one has 16Ohms, you'll end up with a load of 8Ohms from the amps POV. Having four amps with 8Ohms each, you could connect two in series (which is then 8+8=16Ohms) and then those two daisy chained cabs in parallel again (back to 8Ohms). I don't see any way to connect all four directly to the amp, though. See our musicians thread here: http://imotorhead.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=3231&gonew=1#UNREAD Maybe someone there has another idea. _________________________ MHB 3039 -- After listening for over 30 years, searching and waiting for alternatives, I understood that there will be no other band like Motörhead. Never.
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