Setting a 100 amp up with a ZMACS would call for one of the amp’s SPEAKER OUTs into one of four of the ZMACS’ AMP IN jacks, followed by plugging one of the four of the ZMACS’ TO AMP outputs into one of the amp’s input jacks. Pardon the lack of correct terms regarding the ZMACS labeling but the point stands: each amp has an input and speaker out connected to the ZMACS in order to interface.
Well, that throws a wrench in a clever plan I had with making a 4-hole plexi into a direct multi-channel amp through 3 of the amp’s input channels as only ONE speaker out corresponds with ONE specific amp input…. AFAIK, two or three of the ZMACS’ four “TO AMP” outputs cannot be programmed to a single SPEAKER OUT from that amp (fascinated to hear otherwise, but I am all but certain this is the case).
ASSUMING the above to be true, I came up with a salvageable workaround to make it a working 2-channel amp as follows:
Amp Impedance to 8 Ohm, for example… SPEAKER OUT to ZMACS’ AMP IN 1 Jack, ZMACS’ TO AMP 1 output into Plexi’s CH1 HI input; SPEAKER OUT to ZMACS’ AMP IN 2 Jack, ZMACS’ TO AMP 2 output into Plexi’s CH2 HI input, for a working 2 channel amp seeing an independently-assigned load each way.
I am fairly confident this should work and am asking why/why not on the setup feasibility.
Assuming it would work with the above setting my only question would be the corresponding impedance.
If amp = 8, does ZMACS run at 8 per input (since only one matching load is active at 8 on ZMACS), or would ZMACS run at 16 (since one output would be active at 16 and the other [acting dummy load while hooked up] would be considered the other 16?