rarebitusa
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Hi, I have a Captor 4 ohm load and two Mesa Boogie amps, a Mark IIC+ 60/100W and a Mark V. The Captor works fine with the Mark V, but when using it as a load with the older IIC+ amp, it causes the power stage to noticeably clip. This "clipping distortion" is most evident on a clean preamp setting on Ch 1. When recording with the DI interface, it's hard to eliminate with any cabinet emulation.
I have an older resistive based Power Soak and with the IIC+, it doesn't exhibit the "power stage clipping". Originally I thought something was wrong with the IIC+ and brought the amp/Captor setup to Mesa. After a good deal of testing, we did identify that the amp was just not "happy" with the Captor load, especially in 60W mode, 100W mode was improved.
I understand the simple answer would be "it's your amp", but I can't think of anyone else who would understand reactive loads better then Two Notes. I'm hoping for any suggestions to try to improve the compatibility. I did experiment with slaving the Captor off of the Power Soak (set at a minimal attenuation level) to alter the overall load impedance and that actually improved the "clipping", but not surprisingly this arrangement "EQ'd" the tone where there was a loss of the lower frequencies. Hope this makes sense, Thanks in Advance, Tom
I have an older resistive based Power Soak and with the IIC+, it doesn't exhibit the "power stage clipping". Originally I thought something was wrong with the IIC+ and brought the amp/Captor setup to Mesa. After a good deal of testing, we did identify that the amp was just not "happy" with the Captor load, especially in 60W mode, 100W mode was improved.
I understand the simple answer would be "it's your amp", but I can't think of anyone else who would understand reactive loads better then Two Notes. I'm hoping for any suggestions to try to improve the compatibility. I did experiment with slaving the Captor off of the Power Soak (set at a minimal attenuation level) to alter the overall load impedance and that actually improved the "clipping", but not surprisingly this arrangement "EQ'd" the tone where there was a loss of the lower frequencies. Hope this makes sense, Thanks in Advance, Tom