Mesa Boogie 4x12 Cabinet Wiring

Mesa boogie amplifiers can handle 4 and 8 ohms effectively.

Mesa boogie 4x12 cabinet wiring.

Never run below 4 ohms in a tube amplifier unless you are absolutely certain that the system can handle it properly. Many people have asked how to wire up a 4 speaker cabinet that can have an extension speaker cabinet usually another 2 or 4 speaker cabinet plugged into it when desired. To wire a 4x12 cabinet in series parallel where four 8 ohm speakers are wired in. Never run below 4 ohms in a tube amplifier unless you are absolutely certain that the system can handle it properly.

Our legendary oversized rectifier standard and traditional cabinets. 4x12 recto standard os slant cabinet. How to properly wire a 4x12 speaker cabinet. The parallel output jack on our cabinets offers the same connection functionality as two 4 ohm jacks on the back of the amp.

Other players prefer slant style recto 4x12 cabinets which offers a monitor effect due to the top speakers sloping up toward your ears. Heres the deal it has 4x12 speakers all 8 ohms the jack plate image a has 4 inputs one for the 8 ohm input 2 for the 4 ohms input and one as output. This can cause damage to the output transformer. Mesa boogie common cabinet wiring and amplifier speaker outputs.

The most common request i get is for 4 speakers that are 12 inch in diameter 4 x 12 however this solution pertains to 4 10 s 4 15 s or any mix of sizes. Mesa boogie amplifiers can handle 4 and 8 ohms effectively. The standard rectifier 4x12 is the oversized 4x12 by which other quad box cabinets are judged. Nearly all mesa cabs are wired from the factory to 8 ohms with the exception of custom wired cabs by request or.

25 cabclone king snake recto verb 25 bass prodigy four 88 bass strategy eight 88 and full line of overdrive and now equalizer pedals. To be honest i hadn t given that one any thought in a couple of decades and it made me think. This can cause damage to the output transformer. But as this is my first mesa cab and my first cab that im gonna rewire i have some doubts about it.

So this week i received an email from scott a wgs aficionado who was inquiring as to how he should wire his marshall style 4 12 cabinet. Some larger format mesa bass cabs. In essence there are two ways to wire up a 4 speaker cabinet. Regardless of slant or straight if you are playing a recto 4x12 your tone has authority clarity and detail that only mesa traditional or standard 4x12.

When it comes to 4x12 cabinets we offer a choice of two distinct and different sounding sized quad boxes. So i decided to buy it and reconnect al the wires by myself.