Combining guitar and bass cabs in a stack

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So I have been looking for a way to squeeze a bit more definiton from my setup and wanted to add a 2x10 or 2x12 cabinet to my carvin 4x10. I came across a carvin 2x12 combo that is a guitar cab that is rated for 200 watts for a great price, even making it worth blowing up for an experiment but I would like to have an idea of what to expect.

Would it be safe to run in a line with the 4x10 using a 200 watt amp, assuming both cabs are 8 ohms? If I understand correctly that should only send 100 watts to each cabinet, so it should be harder to blow the speakers, right?
 
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Bad idea. The end. If you want better definition, work with your present amp/eq/strings and change your cab if needed. Guitar cabs are for guitars, really, unless you are playing piccolo or some weird FX that remove the lows from your sound.
 
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Right on, thanks for the advice everyone. My carvin 4x10 sounds great, I haven't had a problem with it at all. One of our guitarists just upgraded to an all tube orange amp and I need a bit more range to keep up with it. Outside of buying a nice new head (which I can't afford right now, or ever) this is one way I thought may work for the time being.
 
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I used to use a Carvin 2x10. It was good and I got compliments on it, but then I went to visit Dave up at Revsound and A/B'd my Carvin with one of his 2x10s. It was night and day; the Revsound was much tighter and more defined. I like Carvin overall, but like others are saying... if what you're looking for is note definition, then shop for a better cab, rather than stacking a guitar cab onto it.

I clicked on the thread because I AM thinking about creating such a stack myself, but as part of a bi-amped rig. As is I'm splitting off an octave-up signal to a guitar combo amp, an Egnater, but it takes up a lot of space on small stages in little bars where I play. What I think I'd like to do is rack my bass head, see if Dave can make me a guitar cab (maybe a 1x12) with a footprint that would stack well with the bass 2x10 I already have, and get a separate guitar tube head. Then the stack would go 2x10 on the bottom, 1x12 stacked on it, then the bass head in a 2-space rack, and the guitar head (taking the up-octave signal) on top. Whattayall think?
 
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hrodbert696 said:
I used to use a Carvin 2x10. It was good and I got compliments on it, but then I went to visit Dave up at Revsound and A/B'd my Carvin with one of his 2x10s. It was night and day; the Revsound was much tighter and more defined. I like Carvin overall, but like others are saying... if what you're looking for is note definition, then shop for a better cab, rather than stacking a guitar cab onto it.

I clicked on the thread because I AM thinking about creating such a stack myself, but as part of a bi-amped rig. As is I'm splitting off an octave-up signal to a guitar combo amp, an Egnater, but it takes up a lot of space on small stages in little bars where I play. What I think I'd like to do is rack my bass head, see if Dave can make me a guitar cab (maybe a 1x12) with a footprint that would stack well with the bass 2x10 I already have, and get a separate guitar tube head. Then the stack would go 2x10 on the bottom, 1x12 stacked on it, then the bass head in a 2-space rack, and the guitar head (taking the up-octave signal) on top. Whattayall think?
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No issue having separate amps for each. Just take some knob twisting to get them to blend well.

I'd still roll some lows out of the guitar amp, and careful not to push your 210 too hard adding bass to the sound. The combo can run pretty loud.

Tweak the mids so they sound complimentary instead of fighting each other. More eq in the bass amp there helps to let it play the fatter lower mids while dialing out the middle and upper mids letting the guitar amp carry those.
 
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