| Greetings & Salutations ! [message #8874] |
Sun, 09 September 2007 22:45  |
StaticUnit
Messages: 10
Registered: September 2007
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I play my Guitar thru a blue Challenger. Usually with a TS-808 tube screamer in between. Amazing but true it kept up with the Marshal Stack used by the other guitarist in my former band. (years ago)
I also have a K 200 b1 with a 3x15 KEI and a 2x15 Jensen in black GREAT Sound for Guitar or Bass or use as a PA !
I recently acquired a PA. I think it's a K100... blue.. needs work though the head sounds terrible ! The two cabs have four 8" each I can't tell if they are cascade or a faded blue !!! anyways they sound great through the 200 head for vocals.
Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello !
Hello 
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| Re: Greetings & Salutations ! [message #8876 is a reply to message #8874] |
Mon, 10 September 2007 06:40  |
stevem
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Registered: June 2004
Location: NY
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Hi, and welcome.
Thats a nice collection of amps, I hope you can get the k100 fixed.
are you running the 3-15 and 2-15 cabinet at the same time, if so you should check the ohmage of the 2-15 cabinet.If its a 16 ohm cabinet you are at a 3.98 ohm load, which is fine for the k200, if its a 8 ohm cabinet your in trouble and stand a good chance of over heating the amps output stage and blowing it!
I spend alot of time working on tube amps( I`ve got 16 of my own) for other people, and most of them that a player has owned and giged with for 3 years or more, are in bad need of tubes, not to mention power supply filters if they are over 8 years old.
Last week I worked on a guys Highwatt 100 That went I got done put out 128 watts rms, and over the weekend I picked up another guys Highwatt 200 monster that was only able to manage 122 watts rms, when these babys can most times do 240 watts rms with good componets!
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| Re: Greetings & Salutations ! [message #8882 is a reply to message #8874] |
Tue, 11 September 2007 22:49 |
ET !
Messages: 18
Registered: June 2004
Location: south Carolina
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hey Static...welcome to the greatest bunch of krazies on the planet! Glad to hear you're playing the kustoms..and yeah, I do believe that your charger could keep up with the marshalls.. I've been doing it for years..I've used the tube screamer and mostly Boss overdrive pedals in front of my kustoms and my buds are always amazed whether we're jamming at a house party, or practicing for a pickup job, or on stage..whatever the size I have come in with everything from my lil K25c 1x12 combo all the way up to a cluster of big rigs and they are blown away by the tone and volume levels.
I used to have a set of the 4x8 PA columns your're talking about and they do voice out great for vocals..just the right size..mine were the closed back smaller cabs..I think the closed back helps hold those 8s in place and the cabs do sound good.. I now have the larger slotted back columns which I believe were originally designed as 4x10s..but kustom electronics also loaded the 8s in there.. not sure of the history on that one, but the columns are a little larger and could hold 10s just fine.
Steven's right..do check you ohm load on the cabs..the kustoms heads can take a lot of abuse.. lord knows I've abused mine through the years.. I used to have a bass player friend that ran his 200 head into a 3x12 cab and a2x15 cab side by side in a local hotel lounge and I've run my pair of 2x15s that way forever...but that was a 4 ohm total load that way which the amps seem to like...for years I also ran my lil K25c stacked on top of a K100 2x12 cab and used a 'Y' splitter so that I could run a 3 of the 12s at the same time.. I was a kid..had no clue about ohms..still don't...just knew that the amp was louder, and looked soooo cool stacked like that..the K25 never let me down in spite of myself. btw: you should fully expect your black rigs to sound better than the blue ones... (long standing joke among this gang as I seem to be the only guy in the world with a black collection)...mind you I do love my few sparkle rigs..the ones that the other guys let me buy at a decent price..usually I get beat badly on ebay...but my black rigs do sound better (grin)
Play Loud!
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