Cliff Notes are small yellow guidebooks written by experts to help explain academic subjects to people who need a little help, or don't have the time to read and study the actual lesson material.
Cliff Notes are small yellow guidebooks written by experts to help explain academic subjects to people who need a little help, or don't have the time to read and study the actual lesson material.
I'd not have passed the third grade without them...:shock
Yes, a separate sub-forum would be best as I post these but eventually they end up with the dust bunnies.
That would explain why I never heard a difference. Thank you.BTW, for this to be audible the Master Volume needs to be set very high so that you are clipping the (virtual) output tubes.
Guitar folklore has it that SRV and Joe Walsh intentionally mismatched their speaker impedance. I imagine others have done this. The general idea is you plug an 8-ohm speaker into the 4-ohm jack or vice-versa.
The Axe-Fx allows you to replicate this behavior using the Transformer Match control. To simulate plugging an 8-ohm speaker into the 4-ohm jack set Transformer Match to twice it's current setting (i.e. 2.0). For the other way around set it to half (i.e. 0.5).
BTW, for this to be audible the Master Volume needs to be set very high so that you are clipping the (virtual) output tubes.
Most amps set the impedance ratio of the OT so as to get maximum power from the power tubes (within the SOA). Some amps intentionally mismatch the OT to give more control over the distortion by riding the volume control, i.e. Trainwrecks.
Most amps actually slightly undermatch the OT as the speaker impedance is greater than nominal outside of the midband. Trainwrecks are overmatched.
This is not folklore....
I saw Joe Walsh many years ago at the Chesterland Hullabaloo here in Ohio, back when he was with playing ‘The James Gang’. ....You wanna talk about ‘Speaker Impedance Mismatch’ ?...
To my horror as he was setting up for the show, I watched Joe with much anticipation as he pluged the SPEAKER OUTPUT of one Fender Twin into the (front) INPUT of another Fender Twin .. He sounded really great for about 1 minute give or take, until the amp(s) started smoking and caught on fire. What a show that was! So much for that brilliant idea... :lol
Some amps intentionally mismatch the OT to give more control over the distortion by riding the volume control