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900 Watt Crate Poweramp. 450 a side in bridge mode. 2 300 Watt speakers on each side. Peavey "PV8" mixer.
Playing all night. same volume we've been playing at all week with this setup. Our bass player's Bass cabinet developed a rattle so it has been in the shop. So we hooked his amp head up to the mixing board with the DI out on his head. Playing our last song of the night and the speakers stopped working. No smoke, no smells. Power amp seems fine. it seems unlikely we would've hurt it.
Volume out of the speakers is nearly completely gone. Theres 3 tweeters. 1 horn and a 12" speaker in each, and the only sound is coming out of the tweeters and horn. the 12" speaker doesn' t even have static.
We pulled the back plate off to chekc the solder connections, theyre' all intact. Although theres a weird little rectangular box attached to the cables soldered to the input jack that looks like it might be a fuse. The coil on the back of the speaker is really really hot.
It doen'st look like we've "blown" anything.. at least not physically. Everything was going smoothly all night. No distortion out of the speakers or any thing. I think the bass just pushed it too hard. Do speakers just "shut off" if they get too hot? Will waiting for them to cool down be a viable hope to hold on to?
I had kind of a crappy day and this just pounded the nails in the coffin.
Playing all night. same volume we've been playing at all week with this setup. Our bass player's Bass cabinet developed a rattle so it has been in the shop. So we hooked his amp head up to the mixing board with the DI out on his head. Playing our last song of the night and the speakers stopped working. No smoke, no smells. Power amp seems fine. it seems unlikely we would've hurt it.
Volume out of the speakers is nearly completely gone. Theres 3 tweeters. 1 horn and a 12" speaker in each, and the only sound is coming out of the tweeters and horn. the 12" speaker doesn' t even have static.
We pulled the back plate off to chekc the solder connections, theyre' all intact. Although theres a weird little rectangular box attached to the cables soldered to the input jack that looks like it might be a fuse. The coil on the back of the speaker is really really hot.
It doen'st look like we've "blown" anything.. at least not physically. Everything was going smoothly all night. No distortion out of the speakers or any thing. I think the bass just pushed it too hard. Do speakers just "shut off" if they get too hot? Will waiting for them to cool down be a viable hope to hold on to?
I had kind of a crappy day and this just pounded the nails in the coffin.