Burned out bass speaker

[dbase]

I let a lead guitar play thru my Ampeg B15 bass amp and he burned out the speaker. I couldn't do that with my bass guitar with the volume all the way up... How did that happen?

 

[zzr0ck3r]

i burnt a speaker out moving it. **** happens it was a swr 18 cost about 140 to recone. hope i helped

 

[billfitzmaurice]

I let a lead guitar play thru my Ampeg B15 bass amp and he burned out the speaker. I couldn't do that with my bass guitar with the volume all the way up... How did that happen?

Playing bass through the cab you'd hear it fart out on long excursions if you push it too hard, and you'd turn it down. Guitar doesn't go low enough for the driver to reach its excursion limit and fart out, while the compressed/distorted tone he would get at full rated power and beyond is just what he's looking for.

 

[Crockettnj]

He drove the amp into clipping, and when an amp clips you blow the speaker because of all of the DC current fighting the ohms in your cab. Use a better instrument cable.






(ok, just kidding. He he. A little levity. He he he. He. He.)

 

[62bass]

He drove the amp into clipping, and when an amp clips you blow the speaker because of all of the DC current fighting the ohms in your cab. Use a better instrument cable.






(ok, just kidding. He he. A little levity. He he he. He. He.)

I've heard that fighting between the DC current and the ohms in my cabinet. It's sort of a rattling sound. As the DC current wins you can hear the dying cries of the ohms, until finally, there's silence and no sound at all. Using a special oxygen free copper cable for speaker wire (expensive but totally necessary for good sound) helps give the ohms more of a fighting chance.