Recent content by Andy Jones

Hi all! I have an old 70's Carlsbro 150w Bass amp I love to bits. It's been recently serviced and tested on a cab I know works so that's all totally fine. However, when I plug it into my 2x12 bass cab, after about 10mins of playing at gig volume it runs incredibly hot to the touch at the...

I am in the UK yes. Nope! Made sure to turn everything off first when switching between the two. It's definitely neither a Black Widow or Scorpion that's in there at the moment and is the problem. It's Peavey but unbranded/serial numbered, I assume it was just the stock one at the time. And...

Thanks, I'm hoping that's the info that'll get back from Peavey themselves about whether the cab shell was the same or tuned differently. The driver I'm looking at buying (if I have to) is also a late 70's one so I'd assume that's what they sold with the cabs at the time. It's cheap enough but...

This is what I'm hoping that it's a minor costly fix rather than a REALLY expensive fix/not even worth doing and I just have to cry a little and chalk up my loss to a silly mistake!

I've emailed Peavey too but yet to get a response, but to be fair it was only this afternoon (and it's a Sunday). I hope there's nothing wrong with my Trace Elliot! My amp guy is 50/50 on it which is a little worrying, but no it wasn't especially loud before the frying.

Thanks for all the info Wasnex, a lot of it went over my head but I get the jist, I've definitely overloaded the speaker with the Trace Elliot, should have stuck with the Century as that seemed totally fine and sounded great! There is a version of this cab, again late 70's with the same design...

No no, just one at a time. Century first and it worked fine, then when I plugged Trace Elliot in after was when I ran into the problem.

Hi all, long time lurker first time poster. Yesterday I picked up a 1979 Peavy Century Amp and a vintage (late 70's) Peavey 115 Bass Enclosure Cab rated at 4ohms (unsure of the wattage). The Century and Cab played absolutely fine, no issues at all even at high volume. BUT THEN I plugged in my...