I am wondering if I purchase an additional poweramp, can I run my Peavey Triple X head through it in order to increase the volume? Because the Triple X on its own isn't very loud for being 120watts tube.

Thanks

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Are you nuts?

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+1 Are you nuts?

What the hell are you running it thru which doesn't get loud enough?

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Here's my setup:

Jackson Rhoads > Peavey Triple XXX Head > Hartke 4x10 Guitar Cabinet

It is barely audibly over the other guitarist's amp and the drums for some reason. And I have the amp at full volume, but I think it's common knowledge that the volume peaks at about two o'clock.

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get a 4x12, and make sure the tubes are all good. old tubes lose volume. and blown tubes dont put out any power, also reducing volume.

also, what is your eq'ing like?

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Dude change your cab!!

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My EQ is as follows:

Ultra Channel - I don't really use this one much
Gain: 12 o clock
Volume: 3 o clock
Bass: 12 o clock
Mids: Dimed
Treble: 2 o clock

Crunch Channel
Gain: 12 o clock
Volume: 3 o clock
Bass: 12 o clock
Mids: 1 o clock
Treble: 3 o clock

Clean - Screw Cleans, I never use this channel (And btw, if any of you know how to convert it to a 3rd gain channel that'd be great).

And finally, how can I check whether my pre/powertubes are dying?

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use more mids plz

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After about 1 o clock the change isn't really that noticeable. And I do have enough mids. Hmm.

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get a real guitar 4x12 cab.

how old are the tubes? look at them and make sure they all light up.

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Are you nuts?

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Ditch the poweramp Idea,and get a decent cab.

How exactly is another cabinet going to increase my volume?

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Bigger speakers = more volume. Wattage =/= volume.

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More speakers = Volume as well, so you could use the 4x10 and the 4x12, or you could just be a n3wb and learn the hard way?

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the speakers is what lets the volume out, it will greatly affect your volume, two different speakers pumped with the same power will be different in loudness

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yea........ wtf. If your turning your shit up all the way on 120w of tube power then theres somthing fucked up with your rig. Like xdx said either get new tubes or a new cab.

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well, im pretty sure that hartke 4x10 cab is a bass cab. if so, those speakers arent focusing on the right frequencies either.

more speakers and bigger speakers move more air.

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My Laney is fuckin 50 watt and with my old ass musicman cab I can go to insane volume levels! There has got to be something wrong with that peavey or the cab your using.

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I'm pretty sure its a guitar cabinet, or at least that is what Samash.com markets it as. Anyways, I'm probably going to save for an Avatar cabinet in the near future. At the momen I might just borrow my friend's Marshall 1960 cabinet (or something like that). I'll check the tubes, but the amp was barely used before I bought it so I doubt it could be that.

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Could be that the tubes are fucked since you tried to play it through headphones LOL.

Try it on a different cab. If it still happens, then you can bet your left nut its your power tubes.

I think you bought yourself a tube amp without really knowing what you were getting yourself into.

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Hey, isn't it even loud enough thru your pals 1960 cab?

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Hartke does indeed have a 4x10 cab for guitars with a head as well. it's a "mini stack".

lol.

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Chances are it is a bass cab,though.Hartke are poor,eitherway.