I think my rig just put a Crack in my wall.

Drifta · #1 07-16-2009, 04:44 PM

So no one's home and i decided i was going to turn up my rig past '1'....

so i play through a Genz Benz shuttle 6.0

with a GK 4x10 unported and a Aguilar GS112 together to push 600 watts.

Anyways the way i got the preamp and eq set, with my new lakland 55-01 this rig has nice thumpy dub/motown sound and i turned it up... started grooving and i look up and theres a crack in the wall!

I had the master volume @ 4 or 5 LOL, i mean it was entirely too loud but damn, didnt even really have it turned up... This house is old and crappy(thankfully i'm moving out in 2 weeks) just though it was funny. This house can't handle the thump of my Reggae bass!

southernrocker · #2 07-16-2009, 04:51 PM

Man, thats cool and that sucks!

chaosMK · #3 07-16-2009, 04:52 PM

I've always wanted to do that with my rig.

When I had an SVT-4 and a 2x15 fridge it would make all the windows in my house rattle. I never pushed it enough that they'd actually break loose/shatter though.

Joe.shaffer · #4 07-16-2009, 04:54 PM

I cracked a window with 2 18"s once. Never a wall though, that must have been stupid loud.

Chickencha · #5 07-16-2009, 08:13 PM

Pics or it didn't happen.

FeuerFrei · #6 07-17-2009, 07:55 AM

I have my 1200 watt monster, in my house past .7 and everything starts rattling around.

I can't wait to get out it somewhere and really open it up.

JmJ · #7 07-17-2009, 08:03 AM

Nice, an effective rig. I had a similar experience when I got a Carvin Cyclops amp. I had ten days to try it before deciding if I would keep it. I lived in a basement aprtment with my landlord directly upstairs. I turned it up to a healthy volume, started playing and immediately got a phone call. A panicky shrieking voice on the other end: "JmJ stop it stop it! The whole house is shaking, what are you doing?!" I kept the amp

pasta4lnch · #8 07-17-2009, 08:04 AM

I was just talking w/ my singer last night that I've never taken my lm2 past 2 or 3 . . . it kills me when I walk into a rehearsal space and see a db750 or gk rig on like 8 or 9. . . that's gotta cause hearing damage

a_magg · #9 07-17-2009, 08:32 AM

Just this week I cracked a window in my living room when I kicked on my EHX Knockout while playing my electric upright. Don't know exactly how [or if] to tell 'rents... Its funny, its not like one of those moments when you hit the window with a baseball- where you know what [and who] did it. This, I'm not so sure...

You guys won't tell, right?

taviswardlaw · #10 07-17-2009, 08:59 AM

I was once playing with it set up in my living room and it shook the front door open... oops.

beelzelboss · #11 07-19-2009, 05:34 PM

I have a single little ampeg. 18'' speaker, nothing to special, but with a low B and equed right. I've gotten stuff to fall off shelves and crack a lightbulb once! (that was scary)

dhomer · #12 07-19-2009, 09:13 PM

I don't care if the bass amp DID crack the wall... just don't tell anyone you come from a broken home...

Rocks · #13 07-20-2009, 07:48 AM

we played a pig roast and were setup a a large deck on the back of the house. They had a huge back yard so we were able to really open up our amps. At the time I had two 18" cerwin vega's, two 2x15's cabs and an 8x10's cab with somewhere around 1500 watts to push them. We just got cooking into the 4th song when the home owner came running over waving his arms, it turns out the siding of the house was coming loose! The singer did siding and roofing for a living, went to his truck and got a few things and fixed the siding and we went back to playing, but we were forced to turn down a bit.

JmJ · #14 07-20-2009, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Rocks

we played a pig roast and were setup a a large deck on the back of the house. They had a huge back yard so we were able to really open up our amps. At the time I had two 18" cerwin vega's, two 2x15's cabs and an 8x10's cab with somewhere around 1500 watts to push them. We just got cooking into the 4th song when the home owner came running over waving his arms, it turns out the siding of the house was coming loose! The singer did siding and roofing for a living, went to his truck and got a few things and fixed the siding and we went back to playing, but we were forced to turn down a bit.

You guys could do demolition gigs! I can hear the crew leader now: "We need a few more DB's at about 80 Hz, that back wall is stubborn, can you guys open up your amps a little more"?

beelzelboss · #15 07-21-2009, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by JmJ

You guys could do demolition gigs! I can hear the crew leader now: "We need a few more DB's at about 80 Hz, that back wall is stubborn, can you guys open up your amps a little more"?

OMG!!!! THATS GREAT! More fun then watching the explosion ones! If we ever get that job, I want to be in!

jdieh1 · #16 07-22-2009, 05:26 AM

I've never cracked a wall with my rig but When I crank it you cant feel and hear my whole house shaking. By the way, I have a brick house :/

Pretty sweet though, until someone screams at me to turn it down.

I love running music through the amp, that's always fun

SuperSnake2012 · #17 07-22-2009, 02:56 PM

I knocked down a shelf and broke some glasswear with my bass amp the other week. It wasn't even my GK 4x10! Just my Ashdown 1x15!

Jimmy Bones · #18 07-24-2009, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Chickencha

Pics or it didn't happen.

+1

Stumbo · #19 07-24-2009, 12:20 AM

No pics, no damage! Them's the rules.

Steve! · #20 07-24-2009, 09:26 AM

When your rig causes damage when you turn it up, it's a good rig.