4x12 wiring options.

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NeubyWanKaneuby said:
Kind of a necro bump, but I have questions. I have a 4x12 that's 4 ohms. All 4 speakers are 4 ohms.
Can I rewire it so it's 16 ohms?
I've googled, but not sure I've found good info.
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Easy. Wire all four in series (bottom right in the pic). Are you absolutely sure they’re 4 ohm speakers? That’s fairly rare.

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thegame said:
Easy. Wire all four in series (bottom right in the pic). Are you absolutely sure they’re 4 ohm speakers? That’s fairly rare.

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I would trust you more than me, but i feel like i did this before and it remained 16 ohm with 16 ohm speakers.

However, wiring this way and using multimeter to ohm out would easily prove. I always check when finished wiring.
 
thegame said:
Easy. Wire all four in series (bottom right in the pic). Are you absolutely sure they’re 4 ohm speakers? That’s fairly rare.

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Yep, I opened it up and looked at them. It's an Avatar cab I bought off GC's used site.
I figured it would be a 16ohm cab, but it was marked 4ohm, which is why I opened it up.

I was actually thinking about just replacing the speakers and selling the Celestions that are in it,
but then I also thought if I could just rewire it to 16ohm, it might be easier than speaker chasing.
 
NeubyWanKaneuby said:
Yep, I opened it up and looked at them. It's an Avatar cab I bought off GC's used site.
I figured it would be a 16ohm cab, but it was marked 4ohm, which is why I opened it up.

I was actually thinking about just replacing the speakers and selling the Celestions that are in it,
but then I also thought if I could just rewire it to 16ohm, it might be easier than speaker chasing.
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What speakers are they?
 
Scumback Speakers said:
Ok, I'll weigh in here. Series/parallel has a little more bass, more vintage feel, perhaps a little bluesier/relaxed. Parallel/series is a little more modern sounding, mids are subtly enhanced, better for more immediate feel. Keep in mind, these are SUBTLE changes, and you may not notice a difference.

About a dozen years ago I went through this with George Lynch, Dave Friedman and Roy Blankenship. Depending on your music/playing style, you would choose the one that makes more sense to your tone.

Only the individual player can make that determination, of course. YMMV, My .02, yada yada.
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Would you happen to have a diagram picture of both. I have seen several posts throughout the internet that mixes them up between each other. Two diagrams of the same signal path will have different labels one saying S/P another on a different website saying P/S.
 
I'm way late to this party.

In this image the bottom right isn't series. It's parallel/series.

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Series should look like this (edited with MS Paint)...

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The names of the wiring have never been standardized. You will see them labeled different all over the place.
 
So, I apparently forgot to ask, but do you guys have a recommendation for speaker wire and those connectors?
 
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