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Maybe I haven't thought this through properly, but this just came to me last night. I was reading the recent Guitar World interview with Adam Jones where he explains his preference for using a multiple amp set-up. In his case he uses a couple of Diezels and an old Marshall. Well, his main reasoning is that a single amp will not give you the full range of frequencies you're looking for. In order to get enough midrange, your highs and lows will suffer. In order to get enough bottom end, your midrange and high end bite will suffer. It's always a compromise.
Now, that makes perfect sense to me. But i'll take it one step further, and suggest that the reason for it, is because you're trying to squeeze different frequencies out of the same speaker. Sure, you have 4 speakers in a cab, but they're all trying to do the same thing. How are they supposed to put out big gut wrenching bottom end, when they're vibrating away making high end at the same time?
Well, what if your amp had 4 speaker outputs, and your cabinet had 4 inputs, one dedicated to each speaker. the 4 speaker outputs on the head could have some kind of built in crossover, so that different frequencies could be assigned to each output. Or, even better, each output would have a dedicated active tone control.
If you wanted huge bottom, you could have for example, your top left and bottom right speakers churning out some huge, fat lows, a 3rd tuned for midrange, and the last one for highs. You could mix and match speakers however you wanted too. I really think this would give you 100X more control over tone shaping, which is after all what it's all about.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Now, that makes perfect sense to me. But i'll take it one step further, and suggest that the reason for it, is because you're trying to squeeze different frequencies out of the same speaker. Sure, you have 4 speakers in a cab, but they're all trying to do the same thing. How are they supposed to put out big gut wrenching bottom end, when they're vibrating away making high end at the same time?
Well, what if your amp had 4 speaker outputs, and your cabinet had 4 inputs, one dedicated to each speaker. the 4 speaker outputs on the head could have some kind of built in crossover, so that different frequencies could be assigned to each output. Or, even better, each output would have a dedicated active tone control.
If you wanted huge bottom, you could have for example, your top left and bottom right speakers churning out some huge, fat lows, a 3rd tuned for midrange, and the last one for highs. You could mix and match speakers however you wanted too. I really think this would give you 100X more control over tone shaping, which is after all what it's all about.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
..Shawn, Exactly who I had in mind!!!
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