DrWho Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 We did this same thing a few weeks ago in the lab...and blew up an amp [] The cause? Way more dynamic transients than we though were there! (Granted we were running an amp that we built that didn't have any protection on it yet). After we thought about it a bit, it kinda makes sense...."pro gear" unbalanced signals have a lot more voltage on tap than is otherwise normally used for "home audio" unbalanced signals, which means your "pro gear" can provide more voltage than your home gear inputs are expecting. So when you slap a string, or strum hard or whatever, you're sending a huge transient that is normally squished by other things normally in the signal chain guitar preamp/amp/speaker/mic/etc...In other words, we have grown accustomed to hearing compressed guitar and then expect the same loudness when runnign unfiltered - which means the transients that normally aren't compressed get sent right through and clip the crap out of everything... In other words, don't expect as full and loud of a signal as you can get when cranking music. We were measuring transients on the order of 40-50dB playing some boring bass guitar licks [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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