Cabinet repair in Georgia, South Carolina or North Florida

naturalkinds · #1 08-01-2010, 08:07 PM

I am looking for a reference for a competent cabinet or amp tech in (or loosely around) Savannah. I am having an issue with a buzzing driver that occurred after transporting the cabinet, and would really like to get it checked out by someone who might at least be able to tell me what the problem is.

I took it to a tech at Georgia Music Warehouse in Savannah, and, needless to say, it was an unhelpful disaster. I paid a $45 diagnostic fee for the tech to look at it. In sum, he told me that 32 ohm speakers were 'very strange' and that he had 'never seen them before' and that someone had 'probably made a mistake' when installing them into the 410 cabinet, since cabinets 'usually have' 8 ohm or 4 ohm speakers installed. In other words, he was a complete fool, and I never even got the $45 back, despite the fact that my issue was never diagnosed. We did figure out that it wasn't an amp issue, since we tried it with a number of other amps and cables, so I guess that's a plus.

Help a brother out on a recommendation!

lbwdog · #2 08-01-2010, 08:10 PM

Why don't you describe the cabinet and it's problem here? Someone may can help for free!

DanRJBrasil · #3 08-01-2010, 08:19 PM

i would never pay for a tech to tell me that he doesn't know to fix the problem, you probably had to replace the driver, simple as that, get a replacement that woul cost 2x the price that you paid for the tech do nothing

loendmaestro · #4 08-02-2010, 11:47 AM

Bakos Amp Works in Atlanta is fantastic....but admittedly 4+ hours from Savannah.

DaZombieWoof · #5 08-02-2010, 11:58 AM

32 ohm speakers have a long history with Ampeg and SVT's. That they would show up in a 4-10 cab makes sense. A number of places to get replacement drivers and Eminence makes one in 32 ohms which is sort of an Uber-SVT driver from years of making drivers for Ampeg and just about every other bass amp on the planet. There are places that do recone work, and you best find one of those places which members here say has an immaculate reputation as less than competent places do you no favors.

naturalkinds · #6 08-02-2010, 12:01 PM

Right. The cabinet is 8 ohm, so it is definitely supposed to have 32 ohm speakers. Nothing weird there.

Anyway, still hoping that I can get a recommendation. There ain't much down here, but I do hope there are some competent techs (or even TBers) that could help me out.

Again, I wish I could say more, except that part of the problem is that I don't even know how to communicate the issue. From what I gather with blown drivers, the issue is not that. I don't feel the voice coil moving around, or anything like that. It feels like something might have loosened in transport; again, it was fine before being transported!

DaZombieWoof · #7 08-02-2010, 12:12 PM

The simplistic answer is to take the one flatulent driver out, look in the cab for anything loose, and reinstall. just might fix it. That the other 3 sound okay makes me think magnet structure slip which happens when transported and a significant drop happens is not the case, but who knows. If the driver is blown, the voice coil would not come clean off or be loose necessarily. If they are all in parallel, it might be interesting while the one driver is out to play the cab at low volume and listen.

StuartV · #8 08-02-2010, 12:16 PM

Blake at MusicMasters, here in Tallahassee did an excellent job fixing a stage monitor for me. It developed a rattle that could only be heard when running a bass guitar through it and hitting notes in a certain low range. He figured it out and replaced just the voice coil (or diaphragm, I'm not sure, really) in the horn and that fixed it. The part was something like $70 and he only charged me about $15 in labor. I was literally, out the door for about $86 or so.