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Amps you have blown up?

#21
Every SRW piece I have ever owned except for a Workingman's 12. Lost my SM400, Interstellar Overdrive, Workingman's 10.

I blew a Carver power amp by plugging in the bridge mono output when the amp WAS NOT in bridge mode. That was fun....right before the gig. It was one of the PA amps.
 
#24
Had a mate's Line6 stop on me. No reason, it just went quiet.

Plugged the cab into the footswitch on my Trace, went to turn on, dead apart from the fan. Gutted!

I was told to never move a hot amp when I was a beginner. Never put a beverage on an amp. Under/over wrap cables. This has all worked well for me.
 
#26
GK mb 500 in Europe. Took it cause of it's size and wicked tone. Didn't last one sound check. Between my voltage convertor and a badly wired stage it smoked. Nearly cried. Had to borrow for an entire month. Not the amps fault, we got shocked from the mics too. Just bad luck.
 
#29
I blew a mid 70's Fender 4x12 cab, (borrowed), when I was 17 and stoopid. Had a Bassman 100 head and thought I'd hot-rod it by putting a home stereo amp in the front end. The whole house shook for a brief moment before the 4 poor spkrs blew out. I had to give the owner my car as payment, so expensive lesson learned. In the decades since then, I have not killed a single piece of gear.
 
#33
As a teenager, I watched so many of my amps burst into flames, you'd swear I was an arsonist. After turning a really special 200 watt Marshall into a bonfire I asked someone to explain the whole 'ohms' thing to me one more time :)
 
#34
I blew up one channel on my Earth 440. The other channel worked fine . We actually had to stop band practice because of the smell (1983).
Then my first "real" amp. In 1989 I got an SWR studio 220, I was still using the Earth that could run at 2 ohms, so I just assumed that the SWR could too... It couldn't. Not sure what I hosed up, but SWR replaced it with a new head, and that is the way I learned about ohms...
 
#36
klaus486 said:
Every SRW piece I have ever owned except for a Workingman's 12. Lost my SM400, Interstellar Overdrive, Workingman's 10.

I blew a Carver power amp by plugging in the bridge mono output when the amp WAS NOT in bridge mode. That was fun....right before the gig. It was one of the PA amps.
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SWR for me also. I've wanted to try an SM900 for years and bought a new one a few years back. It fried on my 2nd gig with it and I have no idea why?!? I've played the bar several times with other heads and never had any problems before with the bars power supply.

I burnt up an GK 800RB when I first started playing in the mid 80's , but I'm pretty sure it was my fault being a newbie and not understanding the speaker and bi-amp inputs on the amp.
 
#37
The only amp that I had a problem with was a GK 1001RB-II. I was getting ready to leave for a tour and plugged it in the night before to make sure everything worked. It started making a loud squealing noise. I called GK and they contacted a local Guitar Center and asked them to exchange it even though it was out of warranty.
 
#39
Only one - an amateurish 3rd hand Ampeg 1x15 combo that I probably shouldn't have been gigging with in the first place. On the job - I had to listen to myself in the house with the soundman's DI for the rest of the gig, UGGGGGGGGGGG. I don't think it was totally my fault - I wasn't really kicking its butt. The guts just fried (the driver was fine and now lives in my dad's old Acoustic). No more Ampeg stuff for this guy...well not amps, anyway. I'll rock an AMB1 Scroll bass if anyone has one they aren't using. :)
 

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