kcaithness93

Thanks for the answers everyone! Much appreciated.

Hello all, my name's Kyle, and I'm joining ya here on Basschat over from Canada, mainly because I've bought a bass from a guy on this site. I had a question regarding my setup, and was hoping someone could help me shed some light on it? I've read on the internet that running a tube amp (I own an Ampeg SVT-2Pro, all tubes) without speakers plugged in to it is bad for it, and can cause serious problems like fire. My amp has two 1/4" output jacks, and my cab has two output jacks as well (I own a Peavey 1810 cab, one 18" Black Widow and two 10" Scorpion drivers), and with the cab one jack goes to the 18", the other to the 10"s. I have a second amplifier, and also own a Rickenbacker 4003, and I want to experiment with the "Rick-O-Sound" feature, splitting the signal so that one pickup goes to one amp, and the other to the other. Basically, my question boils down to this: do both jacks on the tube amp have to be connected in order to prevent any damage to the amplifier? Or is it enough to plug in a single jack from that amplifier to a single jack on the cab, and a similar setup on the second amp? I hope this makes some slight modicum of sense, and hope that someone on here can give me a helpful answer! Thanks in advance. Cheers, Kyle