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[OldGtrGuy]

I've always hated stereo/mono cabs jack plates. I just picked up a used and very old Pevey 412MS, all if the speakers are bought used as well. Been trying to recreate an old cab that I loved and I think something may be wrong.

The speakers are all 16ohms wired in series/parallel so this should be a 16ohm load.

Here are the readings on my digital meter.

Left (input) stereo switch = 13.4 Ohms
Right (output) stereo switch = 175 Kohms which is 175,000 ohms?

Left (input) mono switch = .3 Mohms or .5 Mohms depending if red/black probe is on top or bottom.

Right (output) mono switch = .45 Mohms or .55 Mohms depending on red/black probe top or bottom. These Mohms would equal 300,000 ohms - 500,000 etc.

Clearly something is wrong here. I can just buy a new switchcraft jack and disable the stereo bs which is probably what I will do but would it be safe to use this as is? Maybe plug into the left (input) stereo that reads 13.4 ohms?

None of this makes sense at all considering stereo should be 8 ohms but that's what I got. Maybe the jack is broke, maybe one of the speakers is bad, maybe my multi meter is toast.

Pretty expensive amp I'll be using and definitely not trying to break it.

 

[S̷͖͑m̵͎͂á̵̺s̸͚̈́h̴̬̑]

Whenever i had a cab with that nonsense, i would just take off the back and throw away all the wire, then tear apart all the stereo bs and put a mono jack from switchcraft and wire it correctly.

I like soldering my speaker wire to the speakers and then to the jack.

 

[OldGtrGuy]

Whenever i had a cab with that nonsense, i would just take off the back and throw away all the wire, then tear apart all the stereo bs and put a mono jack from switchcraft and wire it correctly.

I like soldering my speaker wire to the speakers and then to the jack.

Yeah thats probably what ill do, its a front loaded cab so thats a pain in the ass but ill at least get a new jack

 

[S̷͖͑m̵͎͂á̵̺s̸͚̈́h̴̬̑]

Yeah thats probably what ill do, its a front loaded cab so thats a pain in the ass but ill at least get a new jack

Shit. I have never had a frontloaded cab. I bet that is a tight bitch

 

[OldGtrGuy]

Shit. I have never had a frontloaded cab. I bet that is a tight bitch

Will find out Friday. It's got 2 Chinese V30s and 2 WGS HM75s in an X.

15 years ago I had this same setup, same model speakers but of course different actual speakers. It was the best sounding cab ive ever had and ive been wanting to try and recreate it for a long time now after regretting getting rid of it.

Had it side by side with a Front Loaded Uberkab, a VHT D412 and the Mesa OS. To my ears this one sounded better than them all. Fingers crossed.

 

[thegame]

Jack off complete?

 

[OldGtrGuy]

Jack off complete?

It got a little messy