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Ampeg 610 help needed.

modflea

modflea

Apr 26, 2004
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Lafayette, LA
#1
My friend bought the Ampeg 610 after hearing my 810. He called me today saying last Saturday he heard a bad noise coming from his cabinet. He removed the grill to find his upper right speaker had a tear across it. Obvious blown speaker.

He needs to know if he can unplug the speaker and use the cabinet until he can get the speaker replaced.

Oh he's using a Stingray 5 playing through an SVT 4.

What do I tell him? Can this be done?
 
#2
Disconnecting one speaker will probably deactivate two of them.

I strongly recommend that you PM "Jerrold Tiers" and ask him (he works for Ampeg).

I've repaired many a tear with toilet paper (yes, I'm serious) and clear nail polish (Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails...it has nylon in it and stays flexible). I paint nail polish on the edges of the tear, then apply a single ply of paper, then paint over it with more nail polish. Once that dries I apply more nail polish with slightly wider coverage. Repeat three or four times. Then flip the speaker over and repeat on the backside of the tear (or do it simultaneously). It looks Frankenstein-ish but it works...my FrankenEVM15 has seen quite a few loud gigs and never balked.

I've repaired damages surrounds (the corrugated part) with folded cotton cloth and rubber cement. Good results with that too, but not much gig experience.

Wish him luck!!!
 
#5
i_got_a_mohawk said:
One thing ill point out is that i dont see why he bought a 610 after hearing your 810, your 810 will sound totally different as its sealed and the 610 is ported
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Too true!!! To my ears (in the store) the SVT-610HLF sounds more like the PR-410HLF than it does an SVT-810.

Mickey Shane said:
The SVT-4 is a solid state output amplifier. It will run the cab fine with one, or two speakers disconnected. 2 disconnected would probably be better for driving the speakers evenly. With 5 speakers , the odd speaker out might be louder than the others.
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While that's true, it changes the whole tuned enclosure issue for the current surviving speakers...and might have an effect on their staus as such as each active speaker has an effectively larger enclosure volume to deal with.
 
#6
i_got_a_mohawk said:
One thing ill point out is that i dont see why he bought a 610 after hearing your 810, your 810 will sound totally different as its sealed and the 610 is ported
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He doesn't have a truck and therefore the 610 was easier for him to transport than the 810. To me, though, if you're gonna plunk odwn the coin for the 610, might as well go a little more and get the 810.

But that's him.

Thanks for the answers. I'll call him and tell him right away.
 
#9
rodl2005 said:
I'm with the repair post above only I used a bit of old stocking/pantyhose of me mums-this was ages ago!! Used soft 'rubber glue that stays flexi & was fine for years of hard work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Another cone-fixer here! I accidentally dropped some scissors on my Peavey TKO's Scorpion 15" speaker. Shops wanted to charge 150€ for a recone kit! I fixed it with a piece of thin cloth glued with this rubber glue. Then brushed it with the same glue all over. This was 3 years ago. It's still perfect and sounds great!

ANDRUCA
 
#11
This shouldnt be a problem but it may. since the cabinet yeilds a 4 ohm impedance, removing 2,1 or any speakers will cause and impedance mismatch for the amplifier. This can lead to a mess of electrical troubles. Given that the impedance doesnt drop below the amps lowest impedance capabilities it should be fine. I dont think any of the other fun side effects of impedance mismatchs will occur in this sort of setup
 

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