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Carvin Head Craping out/distorting. Need help badly (Sorta long story)

et141311

et141311

Oct 25, 2006
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Greenville, SC
#1
I've had the BX1200 Carvin Head for awhile now and its been working perfectly with the BR410 and BR115 Carvin Cabs (I connect with speakon cables by the way)...

3 weeks ago I plugged in to play and i noticed alittle buzz distortion sound going on...Didnt like it but whatever. The more I played the more the distorted sound got worse and would come and go. The other thing, I noticed that if I held a note it would distort after it got to a point...weird...

So I unplugged and tried different combinations of some Fender cabs I have...They also distorted... So I concluded its the head (Of course).

I was pissed off because I needed my rig for a gig

I turned it in to the repair shop. The head and one cab. 3 weeks later the guy reported no problems even after playing thru it for 3 hours...Pissed me off because I have to pay 20 bucks for nothing.

I brought it home today and plugged into just the 410s...Just like the repair guy did...(btw its not a basses fault because I have 4 basses I also have different cables and thats not the problem)
It played fine at first. Then sure enough it started to go kinda bad again! Then I plugged into the full stack and it was really really bad... (So just with one cab it was buzzing...Not too bad, but bad enough where I cant really play)(But with both cabs it full on sucks REALLY bad!)

Help, what should be the problem? Should I just turn the WHOLE rig in and see what he finds is the problem?

Please help I need this rig for another gig next week!

Thanks Guys.
 
#6
et141311 said:
No I'm just chaining them together like I have always done...Nothing changed...and just bam! started craping out...ever since.
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What do you mean "chaining them together" ?

That is a stereo head, with 2 seperate channels.

If you are chaining your 2 cabs together, then running to the head, you are only running one channel, or you are bridging (and may not be aware of it).
 
#7
Bass_Pounder said:
What do you mean "chaining them together" ?

That is a stereo head, with 2 seperate channels.

If you are chaining your 2 cabs together, then running to the head, you are only running one channel, or you are bridging (and may not be aware of it).
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Right.

If you are bridging the amp into both of your cabs, STOP IMMEDIATELY! Your head can't handle being bridged into anything less than 4 ohms.

If you're running both cabs off of one side, you may be pushing that side too hard.

Read the owners manual to learn the proper way of setting up your head and cabs.
 

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