Anyone ever hooked a 4x12 up to a computer?

[DumpyWumpy]

For some reason I have the urge to hook up the speaker outputs on my soundcard to my 4x12....is 16ohms gonna ruin the computer, or will it even work? I have a feeling that I need powered speakers to even do this so I doubt it but I figured I'd pop the question anyways [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[necrotechno]

Re: Anyone ever hooked a 4x12 up to a computer?

Yeah, you need an amp. I used to run Wolfenstein-3D and Doom on a 486 through my half-stack. What was pretty cool is how the amp picked up all the little pops, clicks and whirring noises from inside the computer. Normally this would be annoying, but in those particular games it was more unnerving, adding to the tension of the first-person shooter claustrophobia.

[markD]

Re: Anyone ever hooked a 4x12 up to a computer?

WHY?! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Bob From Accounting]

Re: Anyone ever hooked a 4x12 up to a computer?

NICE thinking! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I like the madness of it

[delt]

Re: Anyone ever hooked a 4x12 up to a computer?

actually you'd need 2 cabs for stereo.

[rps14a]

Re: Anyone ever hooked a 4x12 up to a computer?

i knew a bass player that hooked up a bass rig(8x10 i believe) to his computer to play counterstrike!

[aldog1330]

Re: Anyone ever hooked a 4x12 up to a computer?

A friend of mine went to school with a kid who'd hook his amp and 4x12 up to his computer while playing Ghost Recon or some other Tom Clancy FPS. And then would crank it so loud that a shotgun or sniper rifle blast would sound like a bomb went off in the dorm room. Fun stuff!