Speaker out to preamp....is it a no no!

[hemmick reef]

I noticed some boxes that can emulate speakers by taking the speaker out of an amp. Can I go speaker out to my The Brick preamp or will I blow it sky high?

http://www.motherload.co.uk/

http://www.palmergear.com/index.shtml

Thanks

 

[lbanks]

I noticed some boxes that can emulate speakers by taking the speaker out of an amp. Can I go speaker out to my The Brick preamp or will I blow it sky high?

http://www.motherload.co.uk/

http://www.palmergear.com/index.shtml

Thanks

Don't do it! Speaker outs should never be connect to anything but a speaker.

 

[Creamyapples1]

Yeah dude, that'd be bad. What is it exactly you are wanting to do and what type of equipment do you have?

 

[hemmick reef]

Trying to get a decent sound from my 20 year old bass combo, that has no line out.

Any thoughts on the links I provided?

 

[Creamyapples1]

You would want to go from the guitar, to the preamp, to your bass amp. I've got an Aguilar DB924 and I love it, adds some nice ass to the bass, I dunno about any other bass pres though. The ones you linked looked kinda cool.

 

[Ed Dixon]

There are devices you can buy that are designed to connect to the speaker out, produce no sound, and then send a line level signal to other devices that would be used for sound.

Rockman made a device similar to this some years ago called the PowerSoak. One reference here:

http://www.geocities.com/rockman_gear/powersoak.html

It's fairly easy to build a device like this. I'm sure they are also sold by current vendors as well.

However unless you have such a device, don't connect speaker outs to anything other than speakers.

Ed