sigh of relief

[DumpsterDave]

So at my last gig, one of the 10s in my SWR Goliath III started to make a serious crunch/distortion/what have you noise. Having just had all four pas drivers re-coned, I thought, surely I had just blown one of the new guys. Today I took the malfunctioning speaker out of the box to replace it with a standby only to find that it was only a loose terminal. What a sigh of relief. It's funny how the mind can go to the worse possible place when something goes wrong only to find that a simple remedy is all it takes. In my case, tightening a screw.

Any similar situations out there?

P.S. Orange County Speaker Repair did the re-cones, and a phenomenal job at that!

[gregoire1]

what a relief

[DRafalske]

I picked up a used Genz 410ST off the local CL. Played it at low volume at the seller's house and it sounded fine. Played it at practice that night and there was a gawdawful rattle coming from it. Turned out the clamps holding one of the speakers in was loose. No problem, easy fix. Sounds great now.

[BassmanPaul]

A small drop of that crazy glue and it'll never come loose again.

Paul

[Mola Ram]

I had something like that happen back in the day.

Right in the middle of practice my sound drops out almost completely...I start freaking out. I start going through all the possibilities with the amp and everything checks out so my guitarist says I should just take it in to have it get looked at.

As I'm leaving the drummer, of ALL people, walks up and says, "Hmm, isn't that an active bass?"

"Yeah," I reply.

"When was the last time you changed the battery?"

".....never?"

It was my first active bass and I had it for well over a year and I NEVER changed the battery. So, he grabbed one and we put it in and there ya go...

[SC Bassboy]

A couple of years ago I had a SWR SM-500 that would constantly overheat and turn off. You could cook eggs on top of that thing. Show after show it would turn off in the middle of our sets. So I sold it and bought a GK 2001RB. The second show I played with the GK it overheats and turns off. I’m like “Really? Are you kidding me?”. After all the trouble I had with the SWR I couldn’t believe I had bought another amplifier that was prone to overheating. During an emergency set brake I took the top off the amp and it turned out that one of the cooling fans had come unplugged. Once that was fixed it fired right back up and has never given me any trouble since. That was a big relief.