Well,

I don't think that cable will work with my amp.  Seems I don't have the BRG/STR switch, so it's just a two channel mono amp. The older Walter Woods amps I had that were only 100 watts had that switch I believe.  Thanks for all of that information , Jimmy, it will help if (when) I acquire one of those amps but with more than 100 watts power (i.e., amber light).

-Rob

Ah alright!  Thanks for posting the picture of your front panel.  As you can see below, I have that very same model plus a much older oddball version (yes, that is an Alembic 5-pin connector - it's a long story). 

When this thread started I looked up a "stereo" WW and saw the model with the "STR/BRG" switch.  That's why I kept riffing on that, sorry.  As it turns out, the cable we're talking about will not work with our models.  But hang onto it because you never know, you may need it later.

Ours are the more standard WW models which have mono power amp sections along with the two input channels.  Running the neck pickup through channel-1 and the bridge pickup through channel-2 is my preferred WW setup.  The oddball amp is hardwired that way - plus the 1/4" jacks are TRS inserts before the EQ.  I used to run a chorus pedal on the bridge pickup only...

Anyway, thanks for putting up with my long explanations.  I never studied this stuff so I only know enough to get myself into trouble.  But I have been fooling around with Alembics and amps for many, many years.  

Cheers!
Jimmy J

That's great, I will try your method of neck in channel 1 and bridge in channel 2 (each channel going out to their own speaker cab). Great amps, thanks! 😊

They definitely are cool amps!  But my friend, you can't run true stereo with our models.  To get your individual pickups to come out of individual speaker cabinets you need one more channel of power amp. 

If you have a power amp and additional speaker cab you could still use the WW as your "front-end" and plug a 1/4" cable out of the "send" jack of channel two - into the external power amp and speaker.  That way you'd have the sound of only channel-2 in that speaker while the Woods would be only amplifying channel-1. 

The Alembic electronics give us so many different ways to do things.  Keep experimenting!

Jimmy J

Thanks, Jimmy,  I have a two channel power amp and F-2B to achieve true stereo, I was hoping the Walter Woods could accomplish that in a smaller package. Looks like I will stick with mono for the Walter Woods. Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge on this topic! 😊

Well, shoot. I hate that doo-hickey won't work out. 

You might tag our buddy Jeff Scott over at the other place, Rob. He's a Walter Woods aficionado too. Not sure what his current setup is... last I saw, he was running an ElectrAcoustic 1200.

I now have a WW model with a bridge and stereo switch.  It is 225w at 8 ohms (350 at 4 ohms I think). It says to bridge an 8 ohm cab only and it will provide 700w bridged into 8 ohms.  I have an 8 ohm barefaced cab that can handle that, so I will try out that bridge cable 😊

Wow!  The cable made you buy the amp.  I love it.  Looks like a rare bird too.

I am always astounded by how many controls Walter can fit into his front panels.  I can't even say for certain what they all do.  Did it come with the manual?  I think the "L/G" switch is for "Lift" or "Ground" on the XLR outputs.  But "Pan"?  And the knob below that?

That's a lovely machine and I hope you enjoy it.  I describe my Woods as perhaps not the most hi-fi amp but very versatile and extremely "fast", which is a feature of the class-D design.  Not to mention lightweight.  Back when he was the first to do it people would NOT believe so much sound could come out a lunchbox. 

Let us know how it works!

Jimmy J
PS: You may need to exercise ALL those pots.  Mine often requires it.

I'm not sure how exactly to game this new calling I seem to have stumbled over. 🤔

On the one hand, I feel kinda' bad for prompting Rob to buy a cable that didn't work with his current setup. On the other, he did wind up with an amp the cable does work with. I feel like I owe him dinner or something. 

I think the lesson here (if there is one) is pay no attention to the banjo mechanic who posts about various electronica for sale. 

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on September 14, 2026, 07:15:43 AM... banjo mechanic ...

   

Quote from: JimmyJ on September 14, 2026, 05:45:06 AMBut "Pan"?  And the knob below that?

Definitely a cool amp you have there!

As I recall, "Pan" applies to both the upper and lower controls. It allows you to "pan" the output of each preamp channel to "Pwr Amp 1" or "Pwr Amp 2", or any mix of the two. If you're running bridged, then keep the Pan controls centered.

I'm really digging the fact that your amp has XLR preamp outputs. When I ordered my Ultra High Power (blue light) Electroacoustic years ago, Walter told me he stopped doing balanced outputs because he felt a transformer was required to do it correctly. He said it was too difficult to fit it (or them) into the enclosure.

Oh yeah, and +1 to Jimmy J's comment regarding exercising the pots.

Actually, I think the older WW amps sound a bit warmer than the newer ones and have some cool effects that the newer models don't have.  I had a couple 100 watt older versions, but I've been looking for an older one with more power.  This amp with the bridge cable does the trick 😊