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Say you have a head and a cab. The head and the cab have two different wattages, but the same ohmage. Do you run them together or not?

I know this sounds like a riddle, but I honestly don't know the answer to this question.

As long as your head wattage isn't more than your cabinet wattage you are fine. It's the ohms matching up that matters most. Pretty much any cabinet should be able to handle any head. Unless you have a 300 watt bass head and a 50 watt speaker. That would blow the speaker. Plug it in. I am guess you have a 4X12 cab or a 2x12 cab. Either one of those will handle your head fine. If you have a 1x12 with low wattage don't crank the head or anything.

As long as your head wattage isn't more than your cabinet wattage you are fine. It's the ohms matching up that matters most. Pretty much any cabinet should be able to handle any head. Unless you have a 300 watt bass head and a 50 watt speaker. That would blow the speaker. Plug it in. I am guess you have a 4X12 cab or a 2x12 cab. Either one of those will handle your head fine. If you have a 1x12 with low wattage don't crank the head or anything.

It's a potential thing.

I'm thinking of building an amp head someday that basically turns the old '50's Fender Tweed Deluxe into an amp head and putting it together with a 4*12 cab of my choosing.

If I have the idea right, it would sound awesome.

SecondEdition wrote:It's a potential thing.

I'm thinking of building an amp head someday that basically turns the old '50's Fender Tweed Deluxe into an amp head and putting it together with a 4*12 cab of my choosing.

If I have the idea right, it would sound awesome.

yes it would.

and just like he said, as long as you aren't putting more power out than the speakers are capable of handling.

You can get away with running a head into a cabinet that handles a bit less output than the head can produce provided that you do NOT crank the volume up on the head. If you plan on doing a show with a 100 watt head and a cabinet that's rated for 50 watts, forget about it, or suffer the consequences of burned up voice coils and or a voice coil that's hung up on the frame of the speaker.

Practicing at moderate volumes shouldn't be that bad,however if you hear any loud popping sounds coming from the speaker when you play, turn the amp down, what's happening is that the voice coil of the speaker is colliding with the frame of the speaker, and shorting out in the process.