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Given that you also need to buy a speaker cab to run it, I would suggest it's probably better to trade it in for an acoustic guitar combo amp, which would work much better with your guitar.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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Passive - only have speaker input connections, used with a powered mixer amp.
Active - have line input and power cable connections, used with a mixer.
If they're passive you can connect them to the Laney using the main speaker output jacks, but be careful - PA speakers don't like distortion and there's a risk of blowing the tweeters if you turn it up too far on the 'Drive' channel. It will also sound bad. The clean channel should sound OK.
If they're active you can't really test the Laney properly with them - you could connect the preamp out to the input of the speaker which would tell you the preamp is working, but it won't tell you if the power section is working. But the chances are it probably will be - this is a solid-state amp, and they almost always only have two states, fully working and completely dead! It's fairly rare for one to be 'partly' working.
Just to be absolutely clear we're talking about the right thing here, what's the brand and model name/number of the guitar?
I understand this can all be a bit confusing at first .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Test the drive channel with both the crunch control and the master very low - it will probably sound horrible, and will almost certainly feed back very easily if you turn either of them up too far, which will not be good for the speakers. You may be able to get a tolerable sound with the treble and bass down low and the mid up, but don't expect too much - it will be very harsh and buzzy through PA speakers, and at any higher volume is a definite risk to the tweeters.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It's possible that there's either a problem with the Laney preamp, or actually with the FX loop itself - with lack of use the loop jack contacts sometimes corrode and you get no sound. Plugging into the return bypasses both the preamp and the jack switch.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein