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05-03-2011, 10:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: VT | | | URGENT Drummer may have fried my WT800
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Just posted this on the Eden forum, cross posting might help me find an answer quickly.
Rig is a WT800B, cab is a 4x10 XLT. I'm hoping this is just a blown fuse, or something equally simple to fix.
My drummer hosts a weekly open mic, which I usually attend. Tonight I had a separate rehearsal in a space with a house amp - got a call from him as I was leaving asking if he could use my rig since there wan't space in his car for his combo. Sure, no problem, I walk him through the process of setting it up correctly.
Show up around 11:30 to find out that he thought it was a good idea to plug in a chord from the left and right channels into each of the holes in the cab. A minute after he turned it on the sound cut out. Just brought it home, fired it up, no sound through headphones. EQ section doesn't light up, power switch does.
If anybody out there can help me I would really appreciate it. I have five shows Thurs-Sat and am pretty screwed right now.
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05-03-2011, 10:14 PM
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05-03-2011, 10:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: VT | | | Pulled the fuses, one has black smudges inside - will buy a new one tomorrow and report back.
Didn't need one, there was a second fuse included - it fried as soon as I turned on the amp. Anybody know an amp tech in southern VT / western MA?
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05-03-2011, 10:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Portland oregon | | | Hopefully its just the fuse
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05-03-2011, 10:42 PM
|  | Captain of Industry | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Spartanburg, SC | | This is what happens when a drummer touches anything with wires & knobs.
Best they should stick to their sticks..  |
05-03-2011, 10:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: VT | | | He's picking it up now, going to bring it to an amp tech first thing in the morning. |
05-03-2011, 11:47 PM
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05-03-2011, 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by f.vega Send SEAL Team6 after him | Too soon?  |
05-03-2011, 11:52 PM
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Originally Posted by cataract Too soon? | Nah ... I'm sure he's referring to the pirate thing.
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05-03-2011, 11:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Quebec | | Fill your bath with boiling oil and fry your drummer ?
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05-04-2011, 12:19 AM
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05-04-2011, 12:29 AM
| | | | most likely the output transformer... maybe the power trans as well...which will suck for him.
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05-04-2011, 12:34 AM
| | Captain of Industry | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Spartanburg, SC | | I owned a WT400 back in the day.. 1999-2000, dang.. I'm old. 
Anyway, it sounded awesome but went through fuses like tic-tacs.
I remember having to keep a pack of spares in my bass case... |
05-04-2011, 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by johnboy65 most likely the output transformer... maybe the power trans as well...which will suck for him. | there is no output transformer on any ss bass amps except the warwick hellborg power amp.
i think it's just the fuse. it probably burned out to keep your amp from getting ruined.
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05-04-2011, 01:05 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Spokane, Washington | | | Well, that is the whole purpose of fuses. But since his second fuse blew immediately, there is obviously something messing up inside.
Unless his spare fuse was entirely the wrong rating.
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05-04-2011, 04:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA | | | You let your drummer use your amp? Well, that's where you went wrong.
Anyway, it's tech time, after you finish beating the crap out of him, of course.
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05-04-2011, 05:07 AM
| | | I once let my drummer touch a bass amp (luckily the schools not mine ) and he turned the gain up full blast and the volume about quarter way, just before he played a note both me and the guitarist almost litterally dived for the amp.
Also my freinds guitar hass a HUGE dent in its neck cos of a drummer aswell
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05-04-2011, 05:10 AM
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Originally Posted by f.vega Send SEAL Team6 after him | +10000000000000000000
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05-18-2011, 06:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: VT | | | So, the news on this is no news - we had arranged to drop the amp in Boston before a gig last week but the tech decided to "go on vacation" that morning. So no service.
From the drummer's account, he used the left and right amp channels - nothing wrong there - but sent them into a single cabinet. Not really sure what could have gone wrong. |
05-18-2011, 07:47 PM
|  | Endorsing Curmudgeon: Mal's Kitchen Cruelties ... | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Columbia River Gorge | | | Bsically he plugged the output of one side of the amp into the other side. Bad move...
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