Guitar Speaker Cabinet Wiring Diagrams

Mono stereo cabinets the diagram below shows the wiring of a marshall 2x12 speaker cab having a mono stereo selection switch and two specialized input jacks.

Guitar speaker cabinet wiring diagrams.

Power handling as a rule of thumb when mixing speaker types in a two speaker cabinet maximum power handling is 2 x the lowest rated speaker e g. I am here to offer my guidance grasshopper. For 30 watt 60 watt speakers max power handling 2x30 watt 60 watt there are two ways you can wire a two speaker cabinet. 2 x 8 ohm speaker 16 ohm.

To make a four speaker 8ω cabinet put four 8ω speakers in series parallel. When the mono stereo switch is set to mono the two 8ω speakers are wired either in series making a 16ω cab or in parallel making a 4ω cab. Maybe you need some help with wiring said cabs. The series parallel and parallel series configurations function the same electrically.

Will at best cause excessive wear on your power tubes or at worst could result in damage failure of your tubes speakers or transformer. Again assuming we re using the same 8 ohm 50w guitar speaker cabinets the impedance of the cabinet is 2 ohms 8 4 2 and the power handling is 50w x 4 or 200w. 1 shows how to connect four 16 ohm speakers in a series parallel configuration. A typical 4x12 cabinet is rated at 16 ohms.

Jumbo sunshade ezine. This is your classic 4x12. The names for each are interchangeable which is apparent when searching for these configurations on the web. The following is a set of wiring diagrams for the most popular speaker cabinet configurations.

And here s the wiring diagram for four guitar speaker cabinets wired in parallel.