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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 32188" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Re: Wiring an amp rack</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hey Tim, I think everyone uses SJ for speaker cables. There is no logical reason or code why anyone would use SO for that application. Last amp racks I wired used portable 13/4 speaker cable in the rack, but I've also used 14/2 install speaker wire for things like that.</p><p></p><p>I don't use banana plugs anymore since even the 'professional' ones (I was using ProCo) seem to fall out once in a while, and I don't have time to troubleshoot things like that at a show. I want it to work every time without exception.</p><p></p><p>Each of my amp racks contains two IT5000HDs, and with this configuration I haven't ever found a need to reconfigure anything. I have two NL4s on the output panel wired straight-through to the NL4s on the amps themselves. This covers every biamped speaker I could ever use. For any non-biamped speaker, I have a little box that breaks out a single NL4 cable into two separate feeds, one per amp channel. Additionally, I have cable that would take two NL4s and make them into one NL8 if I ever needed such a configuration.</p><p></p><p>I'd much rather have a standard configuration at every show which I can rely on to always work than ten different configurations which I have to double and triple-check at a show before I can be certain things are going to do what I expect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 32188, member: 34"] Re: Wiring an amp rack Hey Tim, I think everyone uses SJ for speaker cables. There is no logical reason or code why anyone would use SO for that application. Last amp racks I wired used portable 13/4 speaker cable in the rack, but I've also used 14/2 install speaker wire for things like that. I don't use banana plugs anymore since even the 'professional' ones (I was using ProCo) seem to fall out once in a while, and I don't have time to troubleshoot things like that at a show. I want it to work every time without exception. Each of my amp racks contains two IT5000HDs, and with this configuration I haven't ever found a need to reconfigure anything. I have two NL4s on the output panel wired straight-through to the NL4s on the amps themselves. This covers every biamped speaker I could ever use. For any non-biamped speaker, I have a little box that breaks out a single NL4 cable into two separate feeds, one per amp channel. Additionally, I have cable that would take two NL4s and make them into one NL8 if I ever needed such a configuration. I'd much rather have a standard configuration at every show which I can rely on to always work than ten different configurations which I have to double and triple-check at a show before I can be certain things are going to do what I expect. [/QUOTE]
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