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hi !
to drive one 115pro AND one 211pro : ONE profet 5.2 or TWO profet 3.2 ??

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your sentiment about the important question ????
 
Welcome to the forum toobi, I'd say one 5.2 will do just fine :-)
 
yup... With two 8 ohm cabs you'll get all the juice out of the 5.2, but with each 3.2 head driving a sincgle cab you'll not get the full power...

Now if you have two 4 ohm cabs, it would be another story...
 
theoretically;

2 x profet 3.2s running at 8 ohms would push 420 watts in total.

go for the single 5.1. its louder and more portable
 
Greg said:
:idea: Buy 2 more cabs & 2x5.2's. 8)
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Now that's a splendid idea!

Use a crossover pedal to split your signal...

Get another 15, and drive two 15s with one of the head, and get a 4x10 and drive the 10s with the other head...

Use the head that drives the 15s to boost lows, use the other head to drive the highs...

Have fun bi-amping! That's how Entwistle did it! (well, he actually quad-amped at dome point, but that's another matter entirely... :P)
 
thanks for your replies !!

conclusion for the moment :?: :
if we think total power : one 5.2
but for very fine tuning of THE sound : bi-amp !!

to choose is not easy ! isn't it ?

more ideas ??? :?:
 
I think if you want to be that carreful with your sound, you should buy a higher quality amp/ preamp first... It is ok to think biamp, but there are other things to uprgade befor that IMHO.

Cheers, Flo
 
I'm not sure, Florin, bi-amping puts less strain on lower quality equipment, allowing for an increase in sound quality (and volume!) at a relatively cheap price...
 
& bi amping sounds so cool swhen ya say it.Bi amping,try it.
 
id go the 5.2, nice powerful amp, and it will be cheaper than buying two 3.2's
 
JanVanHove said:
I'm not sure, Florin, bi-amping puts less strain on lower quality equipment, allowing for an increase in sound quality (and volume!) at a relatively cheap price...
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The theory sounds fine, but in practice the sound quality depends on the components used to build the unit.

About what quality are you talking about?
The sound is coming 1- from the line out, and 2 from miking the cabinets.
Believe me the Tubepath or Xtreme will sound much better on both signals than two profets :-) And louder too :-)
 
Florin said:
JanVanHove said:
I'm not sure, Florin, bi-amping puts less strain on lower quality equipment, allowing for an increase in sound quality (and volume!) at a relatively cheap price...
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The theory sounds fine, but in practice the sound quality depends on the components used to build the unit.

About what quality are you talking about?
The sound is coming 1- from the line out, and 2 from miking the cabinets.
Believe me the Tubepath or Xtreme will sound much better on both signals than two profets :-) And louder too :-)
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Fair enough, If you're going through a PA, than all you need is a DI box! for straight sound without PA support, bi-amping can add both definition to the sound and low end power...

But it is of course theoretical...
 
getting a bi-amped setup working really well is harder than you'd think
 
Alex is right plus, again... a single tubepath miked will sound better than two profets.
To go biamp, you need a crossover first, to separate the frequencies...

Anyway I never feel like I need to mike my lows... So generally speaking, for live, you mike the 10" speaker anyway, and it is more than enough. More lows usually means trouble.

Always imagine that the sound coming from your rig is pretty much covered by the tops of the PA. But then... they start the subwoofers too, and BOOM!

You take care for the mids and treble, the lows will take care by themselves.
 
I bow to your experience Florin, I got nothin'...

I'm just a gearhead... :P
 
Florin said:
Alex is right plus, again... a single tubepath miked will sound better than two profets.
To go biamp, you need a crossover first, to separate the frequencies...

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i've had a bit of fun b-amping my rig (picked up a nice Rane crossover for £30 :wink: ) but i've not managed to improve the sound enough to bother doing it live on the gigs with the full rig
 
As a regular gigger, I reckon keep the set up as simple as possible.

A Profet 5.2 into a 1x15 and 2x10 would be a fine rig. I'd hold out for a 5.2 over the 5.1 series as well.

If you wanted to upgrade, i'd recommend either an Extreme5.1/10.1 or Tubepath 5.1/10.1 into a WCA411 Pro. The less gear you have to pull down at the end of your bands set, the better.

Florin's on the money with this one I think fellas.
 
Bi amping,I still think it sounds cool.Bi amp ing.
**does that make me,Bi amp curious? :shock:
 
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