Daisy Chaining Diezel VH4

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Hey guys, maybe you can help me with something. I love the way that my Diezel VH4 sounds with 1 Mesa 8 ohm cab, but I want to play with 2 Mesa 8 ohm cabs, but when you use 2 cabs, I have to connect each of the 8 ohm cabs to the 4 ohm connections in back of the Diezel VH4, but I noticed the sound isnt as good. Is there any way I can hook up both cabs to only one of the 8 ohm connections in back of the Diezel VH4? Like daisy chaining etc? Or could that blow the amp?
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that's odd... it should not sound worse...

but if you want to daisy chain (serial) it would be 8+8=16 Ohm,
if parallel 1/8+1/8 = 2/8 = 1/4 --> 4 Ohm

usually the thru-jacks on the cabs are parallel wired, which would leave you again with a 4 Ohm jack on the vh4.
 
Hey Elfredoo, thanks for the info. It doesnt sound that bad, but I noticed a little difference. If I go with one of your methods, the sound will change anyways right since its no longer on 8 ohms? I know that if I use the series method like you mentioned, into 16 ohm, that will dramatically reduce the output wont it?
 
don't know... go with what sounds best. but remember that the two inputs of the cabinets are mostly parallel wired.
 
It can be done, but you would be totally rewiring your cabinets' speakers and then wiring their output connectors together properly so that one cable would go from the cabs into the 8 ohm input of the head. Pretty risky. Keep it simple- I would go find another cabinet.
 
maybe you are experiencing interference when using 2 cabs at once.
 
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