Tip o' the week - Experiment with speakers
Tue, 09/21/2010 - 17:42
I know I'm always saying "don't mess with your amp", but experimenting with speakers can be a lot of fun. The key is to TRY as many speakers as possible without having to BUY them! One thing that makes it easy is a 10 foot speaker cord (NOT a mic cord!), plus two key additions. The first is called a 1/4" coupler. When put on one end of your speaker cable, the coupler will change the cable from male to female. Why, you ask? So you can easily plug your amp into the speakers of a combo amp. The next addition is a good soldering project....... take a 1/4" jack and solder some leads with alligator clips to the jack. Now you can go from your amp directly to the terminals of ANY speaker.
Skip Simmons
