Originally Posted by
tunghaichuan
You could use this box:
https://taweber.powweb.com/weber/micromass.htm
Turn the attenuation all the way up and you don't need a speaker. It has a line out to pad the output of your amp down to a safe level. It also uses a speaker voice coil to simulate a speaker.
However, Ch0jin has a good point, if possible you could hook up the speaker of the SS amp to the Champ 600. The impedance should match, though. The Champ 600 has a 4 ohm speaker in it. What is the impedance of the SS amp's speaker(s)?
tung
The SS speaker is rated at 8 ohms. The thing is no matter how big the speaker is on the amp, I'm still only going to have 5 watts coming out of the Champ. Just hooking the speaker up to the Champ will make it louder and give me less speaker breakup, but it won't give me any more headroom. That's what I was looking for out of the setup, being able to control gain w/ the Champ volume and controling overall volume w/ the SS amp. So basically I want to be able to get a nice volume while keeping the Champ clean if possible.
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