slyym
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My owners manual says you can take out tubes to lower wattage for the dual rec, but doesnt say that you can for the triple. Is it possible to lower the triples wattage in this way? Thanx..
tele_jas said:I talked to Mesa Boogie about this.... and the answer was "No, you can't do this". They said with the Triple, it would throw the ohms off "un-evenly" since you are basically reducing the power by a 1/3 or 2/3 and there is no mathmatical formula that would work to get the ohms correct and would eventually cause some serous damage. He did say, if a tube blew and you had to pull the other tube (the matching one in the set) you could probably make it through a show...... but he wouldn't recommend it.
That's what I was told, I know that's probably not what you wanted to hear....... but I hope it helps.
slyym said:I did call mesa today and the dude told me that it was safe to take out the power tubes that are at the ends ( 2 of them) and one recto tube. He did say not to take out any more though.If I try this and it is bad, what is the worst thing that will happen to my amp. **** tripple rec just has way to much power for me and it really only sounds good when I crank it up.Right now I'm only able to turn it up to about 3 which doest really sound all that great. He did say that I can turn on the fx loop and just turn down the send level which would lower the gain a little. One more question, if I take out the tubes do I still run my 8ohm cab into the 8 ohm jack, or should I go to the 4 ohm jack. Thanx for the replys guys.
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