|  | | 
06-14-2010, 11:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rhode Island | | | 1001rbII Lit on fire
Sign in to disble this ad
Funny story. I went to guitar center today to try out some 5 string's. I grab an instrument cable and plug it into the bass. Find a speakon cable plug it into an ampeg 8x10 push the 5 string bass button plug the bass in and turn on the amp... nothing  I then turn off the 1001rb unplug the speakon cable and find another plug it in just as before. Turn on the amp and I hear the bass going through the 8x10 sweet sit down grab the bass get ready to jam out  I go to set the knobs and notice through the grill of the 1001rbII there is a fire inside.  I blew out the fire unplugged everything from the head EVERYTHING and quickly play out of a combo amp.  A sale's rep walks up to me. "you smell that" me: "smell what?" "I think a tube must have blew or something it smells like smoke" Me:"Dude I have no idea I don't smell anything I've just been playing out of this combo amp no problems"  |
06-15-2010, 05:08 AM
| | | | Not funny at all.
__________________
Fender Jazz, ESP LTD Viper 304, Peavey, Proctor Silex, Whirlpool, Sears Kenmore.
|
06-15-2010, 07:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Clearwater, FL | | | so it's cool to lie? |
06-15-2010, 07:43 AM
|  | Nothing over 40hz - it just stings a little. | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Sydney - Australia | | | hope to hell the fire didnt burn through the sheilding on an earth wire somewhere, otherwise the next poor dude that turns it on suddenly becomes the "Earth" - not cool - ring the shop first thing SEROUSLY!
__________________
Sadowsky MV5, Sadowsky RV4, Genz Benz Shuttle 9.0, T.C. Electronic RH450, Markbass F1, T.C. Electronic RS210C, Genz Benz NeoX 212T, Bergantino AE112,
|
06-15-2010, 07:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Columbus, OH | | | bad karma... |
06-15-2010, 07:45 AM
| | Registered User
Luthier of Michael Wayne Instruments, Shop Manager ChromeDomeMusic | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cincinnati OH | | | Man up!
__________________ Blunt: a:abrupt in speech; b:being direct Quote:
Originally Posted by christw  My hair is ready. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Musiclogic geeeeeez Sometimes you should put a "common sense dictates NOT doing this" disclaimer | |
06-15-2010, 07:45 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hour North of Columbus, OH | | Uhhhhhhhhhhhh...  
__________________
For rig info, see my Profile.
Ohio Bassist #146
MM StingRay Club #228
Custom Bass Club #20
15/6 Bass Cab Club #2
|
06-15-2010, 07:52 AM
|  | Registered User
Jim Dunlop USA, King Kong Cases, Golden Eagle Energy Drink | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Virginia | | | A friend recently bought the same amp and had something similar happen. SUpposedly he plugged it into an avatar 4x10neo and used the gk proprietary cable (4pin) and hooked it up to the avatar..........apparently right after firing it up........it caught on fire. Luckily he explained the whole thing to our local GC and they exchanged it.......
Your situation........tell the guitar center what you did. Always ask before plugging in stuff because you never know if you are using the proper cables and risk damaging the amp........which apparently you did.........accident or not
Just my input!
__________________
Mark Bass Club Member #193
Wick Club Member #226
|
06-15-2010, 08:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | That's kinda F-ed up.
__________________
Black on Black Club-8|Warmoth Owners Club-32|Yorkville/Traynor Club-192|Big Cab Club-228|Fender Jazz Bass Club-529
|
06-15-2010, 08:11 AM
|  | Endorser Of All Things fEARful!! | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Edmonton,Alberta,Canada | | Totally Uncool!!! What was the point of That???.
__________________ ...I Have a fEARful fEVEr...Want to learn More...http://greenboy.us/fEARful/ Canadian*eh Quote:
Originally Posted by RNV But this sexy lady just straddles your speakon and dares you to give it more. . |
Last edited by canadian*eh : 06-15-2010 at 11:13 PM.
|
06-15-2010, 08:18 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: DFW | | | I did the same thing to a friend's GK that I was borrowing at the time. I think I sent it a 2 ohm load. It cost me a pretty penny at the time to take care of it! I subsequently learned about matching ohms. |
06-15-2010, 08:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Des Moines, IA, USA | | | You know what's awesome? Having knowledge of a potentially dangerous situation and lying about it so that there is a good chance that someone else will get hurt by it.
Seriously, dude, it doesn't sound like it was your fault (unless you hooked up the equipment wrong) so you probably didn't have anything to worry about by being honest. I know this is talkbass.com and not talkmorals.com, but that was really low, really immature, and really stupid. Call them back and tell them what happened. |
06-15-2010, 08:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Des Moines, IA, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Thunder Pulse I believe that's what he did, if he was using a GK speakon cable with a non-GK cabinet. | Well, if that's what happened, he may be held liable, that doesn't negate his own responsibility to be honest and forthright about the situation. The OP needs to grow a pair and take responsibility. |
06-15-2010, 08:26 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Lancaster, OH | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Thunder Pulse I believe that's what he did, if he was using a GK speakon cable with a non-GK cabinet. | Not sure why this would ever be an issue... I used a GK cable with an Ampeg 810 for about a year and a half with zero issues. May have even used it with some other cabs as well.
__________________
Official fEARful Club Member #13
|
06-15-2010, 08:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Jersey near Philly | | | I'll be the odd man out and say if that was me, I would have been dying laughing but would have told the salesman what happened if he asked. Nothing beats seeing a faceless corporation failing...
__________________
myspace.com/dubmoxoa
Electronic/Synth/Experimential Bassist member #28
|
06-15-2010, 08:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Des Moines, IA, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by NicJimBass Not sure why this would ever be an issue... I used a GK cable with an Ampeg 810 for about a year and a half with zero issues. May have even used it with some other cabs as well. | Thinking about it, you're right. The GK Speakon is just a four-pin speakon, so the lows to go to pins 2 and 4, and highs go to 1 and 3. Plugging that into a non-GK cab would just leave an open load on the high range amp, which wouldn't damage anything. |
06-15-2010, 08:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Timisoara, Romania | | damn..
so..when's your 14th birthday ?
__________________
No Sig
|
06-15-2010, 08:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Toronto Ontario Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassman1185 Thinking about it, you're right. The GK Speakon is just a four-pin speakon, so the lows to go to pins 2 and 4, and highs go to 1 and 3. Plugging that into a non-GK cab would just leave an open load on the high range amp, which wouldn't damage anything. | Speakons do not use your numbering scheme. Lows go to +1 and -1, highs to +2 and -2.
OP you should have said what you did. Not doing so was childish!
Paul |
06-15-2010, 08:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Des Moines, IA, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BassmanPaul Speakons do not use your numbering scheme. Lows go to +1 and -1, highs to +2 and -2.
OP you should have said what you did. Not doing so was childish!
Paul | Yeah, I couldn't remember the specific numbering setup, but my point was simply that there was nothing that would have damaged the amp by plugging a four-pin speakon from the GK to the SVT810. |
06-15-2010, 08:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | real smooth OP....
__________________
Domestic aerodyne PJ_>Orange AD200B-> Berg HS410
| | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
