Chocol8 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 10:02 am
Guitar speakers act as a filter or EQ of sorts. Take this away and you will get a tone that is very bright, brittle, harsh, thin and all a few other unpleasant words.
No... That isn't quite how it works. The high-end roll-off of most guitar speakers occurs above the upper-frequency range of human hearing.
What you are describing is a classic example of improperly setting the gain stages and the tone stack. This is applicable to virtually all AB763 based circuits used in Jerry-style rig. It's a sign of not enough bass, too much treble, and the output signal into the solid-state power amp being too hot for the input stage of the power amp, resulting in a lot of prominent odd-order harmonics and clipping. some light reading on the topic:
https://blog.thetubestore.com/tube-vs-s ... nd-better/
Now back to OP's question..
You will be fine running the SMS into the powered speaker you listed in your post. In setting up the SMS, follow the instructions in the manual. My only thing would be bass and treble. Brad says to set bass to 0, mid to 6, and treble to 10. I feel that you can go with the bass between 0 and 2, and treble between 8 and 10. It all depends on your guitar and your tastes.
The Pad Knob on the back of the SMS will be your friend. This will allow you to dial down the output of the SMS so it doesn't slam in the input stage of the powered speaker. If you feed it is too hot a signal, you will get clipping, and this is ugly with a solid-state amplifier. It could even damage the amplifier in the powered speaker over time.
You should find that you'll be quite pleased with this rig as you have specc'ed it out. It should get you most of the way to getting a good Jerry tone. The speaker IR would add icing on the cake. But I think you'll find the cake to be delicious, even without the icing.
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