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Sounds like Industrial - was that your aim?

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Have yet to hear anyone cover Doom's E1M1: "At Hell's Gate" note for note.

Here is my lame take, recorded at 1/4 speed and sped up to full.

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Made a "song". Tried to do 8-Bit + Orchestral. I have no clue what the hell I'm doing. Made in Fruity Loops, which apparently sucks.

Have no clue how to master, either. So really, any advice to help me get started would be excellent.

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VC damage is usually pretty obvious to spot.

Sorry, I misread your post. Sure, you can check (don't bother too much with getting a sine sweep, but it's always nice.) Test at low level. If it moves at all, that's a good sign.

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>If they don't have surrounds, you'll just destroy the cones, by the way. They won't make much sound either (flap flap flap).

So, shoud I get from this that I cannot test the woofers before doing the re-foam job? Shucks.

I don't really care that they wouldn't work, I just don't want to buy a 20-30 $ re-foam kit to find out the voice coils are burned or something.

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It's an RMS rating on this one. 65W is the max it can safely output given an average load of 8ohms. I meant just checking the marketing literature, impedance varies with frequency.

Don't bother with test tones, you aren't running a PA system. By hooking up your woofers, do you mean running the cables without an xover straight to the midbass cone? That's generally unnecessary if they have a built in xover (most speakers like this should). The cones should just move. And if they don't, you picked them up for $2, nobody really loses. Repairing anything would be a waste of effort.

Regarding concerns about overpowering - Just do what most people do and recognise that when they start making odd farting noises, etc - it's time to turn the knob down. Unless you're listening to near-full-duty music (sine waves - dubstep usually), just trust your ears and common sense. It's really excessive bass that kills small speakers like this (see the frequency range on your picture).

If they don't have surrounds, you'll just destroy the cones, by the way. They won't make much sound either (flap flap flap).

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Great, just wanted to make sure, thank you!

Now, could I, say, hook up my woofers directly to the amp and play a low-freq test tone through them, to make sure they work? Do I risk damaging anything this way?

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The rating is probably only a peak rating, that is to say it can output that level for tiny bursts at it's absolute peak output.

OR

It's an RMS rating, which means it can pump that much out as an average full load.

Either way, what you do is:

Don't turn it up too high, so high that your speakers distort.

It isn't pumping out 65w when you're listening to it at min volume!

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Er, sorry, I'm not sure I get you. My speakers are 8ohm.

My main question was, how risky is it that I blow up my speakers, seeing as the amp is apparently rated for 65w whereas the speakers 40w max?

Adding on to that, before I order a foam kit on the web, is there a way I can test the speakers, to make sure the voice coil isn't burned or something like that? Can I just plug 'em in the amp, play something, and watch for movement?

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just go with the rating, generally close enough not too matter too much.

But you really should try to match impedences to make the most out of your system.

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By checking the impendance, you meant actually testing them, or what they're rated for?

See picture for what I could find on the net as far as specs go. 8 ohms indeed, rated 5-40W.

Which brings me to my next question actually. Amp is rated higher than the speakers, is that I a problem? I figure as long as I don't push the volume too much, I'll be fine, right?

Anyways much thanks for the help, and sorry for the noobish questions.

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Check your Boston's foam prices and impedance (if there's an efficiency rating in db 1W/1m or power rating in W, that would be useful). If it's 8 ohms, that'd be great, anything lower than 2 is unlikely, but in that case ditch them. They're probably not worth the money refoaming anyway.

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My concert went very well, and I've got an internship for the summer! Many thanks to you, I actually knew more than a couple other people who were there! Learned how to mic a drum right as well.

The guy ran me through most of the other basics for stage stuff, and he'll be teaching me more this summer, so no more questions right now. I'll be back if I have more later though!

As for the board, the club I'm going to work at uses analog, so I'm sure going to miss it. They use the same board for both monitors and FOH though, so I only really gotta learn 1, lol. No more saving presets for me!

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