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02-27-2011, 02:04 AM
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So, I arrived at the bar. Set up my rig. Plugged in my bass and...nothing... then, the smell of burning electronics!
I unplugged it and smoke started coming from the jack plug and from under the pickguard..
Electronics fried out! Lucky I had another bass with me...
DAMN! 
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02-27-2011, 09:51 AM
|  | Born in the '90s, please ignore | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Northfield MN | | | What on earth could've caused that?
Is your bass active?
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02-27-2011, 10:15 AM
| | | | Musta been active.... Or your amp isn't grounded and went through a power surge when you plugged in....
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02-27-2011, 10:21 AM
| | | | You could have totally turned that into a Jimi Hendrix re-enactment
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02-27-2011, 10:22 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fredonia, NY | | | what kind of bass was it? |
02-27-2011, 11:30 AM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | | That's hot.
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02-27-2011, 01:30 PM
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Authorized fEARful bass cabinet builder | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | | | Get the amp looked at... It could be a fault on the ground connection (DC on the ground) or your signal side had a problem (current where there should not have been any)
Either way, not good!
Other possibility is inside your bass. If you have an active bass, if something shook loose and a connection was made between ground and positive, your 9v battery would short and could explain the burning! Perhaps the audio plug you connected to your bass was shorted at the other end, causing the hot bass? |
02-27-2011, 02:04 PM
| | | A 9v battery (or even two of them in an 18V bass) wouldn't normally have enough power to make smoke. Even a dead short across the terminals only makes the battery get warm. Definitely get the bass and the a  mp looked at by someone who knows what they are doing!
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02-27-2011, 02:07 PM
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02-27-2011, 02:36 PM
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Ok, seriously, you need to get that checked out. Did you forget a lighter in your control cavity? |
02-27-2011, 04:17 PM
| | | I bet it's the amp. My active ibby had tons of problems with the Electronics and I never got any smoke out of it. Killed the preamp and fried tons of batteries with different shorts but no smoke.... Then again it was an Ibanez 
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02-27-2011, 04:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Virginia | | | I'd definatly get your amp checked out, but that's already been said. |
02-27-2011, 07:17 PM
|  | Endorsing Artist: Wild Turkey Bourbon | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: The Wilds of NW Pa. | | | No pics ... no roasted bass.
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02-27-2011, 07:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: The Burbs, New York | | | Somehow I don't believe this...
Also, no pics, no bass.
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02-27-2011, 07:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highway 61 | | | Sounds like your bass needs ashtrays. |
02-28-2011, 10:50 AM
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Seriously, I hope it can all be fixed. |
02-28-2011, 08:51 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Spector Basses/Genz Benz Amplification/Mojo Hand FX | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | seriously?...you sure you didn't plug the speaker out into your bass??...lol...or maybe used a speaker cable instead of an instrument cable?...not even sure that would cause this... |
02-28-2011, 09:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: alabama | |  You said you had another bass ? And you used it through the same amp, I presume ? Odd.
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02-28-2011, 09:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: The Burbs, New York | | | This story sounds a little... half baked...
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03-01-2011, 01:08 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: L.A. (the Valley) | | | You mean like...4:20 time?
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