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Avatar 410 distorting/buzzing

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arispect

Jun 23, 2007
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Brooklyn, NY
www.arisadowitz.com
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Endorsing artist: Lakland Basses
#1
I'm running an Ashdown ABM500 through an Avatar 410 and have recently experienced a lot of distortion and buzzing from the cab. The noise issues were so bad that I disconnected the tweeter, which helped a bit, but anything lower than an open A sounds like a fuzz pedal. The head is 575 watts, but I rarely have the input/output knobs past 12 o'clock.

I love the character of the Avatar - it's got a lot more punch than any Ampeg 10's I've played and the distortion actually has its own benefits, but there are times when I need a really clean sound and just can't get it. The distortion is obviously worse when I run a Fulltone bass drive and/or the Ashdown's sub-octave generator.

Any thoughts? New cab with more speakers, like 6 or 8 10's? Has anyone had similar problems?

Here's the gear:

http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.asp?section=abm&ID=6
http://avatarspeakers.com/B410 NEO.htm
 
#6
Have you tried another cab? The cab does not (normally) produce any sound that tis not fed into it.
If there's a defective part, then that defective part may be to blame. You've already disconnected the horn, and that "changed" the sound. Hmmm....to me, that means that you are no longer hearing the bad part of the signal going into the cab which is fed into the horn.
I think it is unlikely that there was a bad horn plus a bad other part. The crossover is common, and maybe could be. But I would really try another cab first.
 
#7
Try to pinpoint anything wrong with one particular speaker. Does anything rattle/sound blown? If it does, pull that speaker and see if anything fell and got lodged behind the cone. I just had a problem where a loose staple was stuck behind the cone causing a speaker to sound blown, as well as making the horn hum very loudly. Pulled it out, and everything was fine.
 
#11
Foamy said:
Have you tried another cab? The cab does not (normally) produce any sound that tis not fed into it.
If there's a defective part, then that defective part may be to blame. You've already disconnected the horn, and that "changed" the sound. Hmmm....to me, that means that you are no longer hearing the bad part of the signal going into the cab which is fed into the horn.
I think it is unlikely that there was a bad horn plus a bad other part. The crossover is common, and maybe could be. But I would really try another cab first.
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Foamy: I sent you PM to ask you a question about Avatars.
 

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