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Did I Ruin My Cab???

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PoundinThunder

Sep 27, 2007
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Upstate NY. Victor
#1
so the other night i had a show to play (second show ever, first paying show) and it was raining the whole night. i had to move my cab in the rain and had nothing to cover it. being an 8x10, they arent the easiest things to move. on the way back in to the practice space, i would say it was in the rain for 6 sec. the speakers were face up too. not my fault.

anyways, i went to play last night and something sounds weird. like a little crackly. could the little rain have done it? how do i check? or maybe something was knocked loose when moving?

ughhhh. thanks in advance
 
#4
OUCH!!! If the water gets down further past the cone, the voice coil can get warped. That may be what you are hearing. To test for this... Wash your hands and gently push on the cones. It should feel smooth. If it feels a little scratchy, the voice coil is rubbing the magnet and it needs to be rebuilt.

Get a cover.
 
#7
6 seconds of rain might not be enough to hurt anything of you let it dry out before playing it again. I'd be opening it up and do some looking around. May have a wire coming loose if you yanked it out of the truck and slammed it into a door or something trying to get it out of the rain in a hurry. Who knows.
 
#9
sorry if this has been talked about before. i dont come on here that often.

its a hartke vx810. it has a horn but theres no switch(that i see) to turn the horn off.

i will try the push test on the speakers. im pretty sure it didnt sound this way. if i opened it up i reay dont know what i would be looking for haha. its an older cab and has had 2 speakers replaced i think. two of them are silver the rest are black. so maybe the person who put them in didnt do the best job. i will have to look i guess.

how much does it cost to fix a voice coil? im thinking its only 1 or 2 speakers so replacing them is probably a last option.
 
#11
Back in 1983 (I think), the little creek that ran behind our practice space overtopped its banks in a once-in-a-hundred-years flood. Although our drummer was able to pull my Marshall head out of the basement before it filled with water, he couldn't get my Sunn 215BH cabinet out of there himself. It sat submerged for two days before we were able to drain the area and pull it out. I let it sit outside in the sun for a few days until I was pretty sure that it had dried sufficiently, and plugged it in. The cab sounded like nothing had happened to it. I ended up using those speakers for another ten years, even transfering one of them into a fender cabinet for easier portability. The only damage I found from the flood was some of the tolex had come loose when the glue became saturated. YMMV, though.
 
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#12
While anything is possible (like rust in the voice coil gap) I susspect the speaker mounting hardware. If you find any rubbing sounds loosen all speaker mounting hardware, and tighten as evenly as you can in a crisscross pattern, check again in an hour. Do this even if you don't hear rubbing.
 
#13
thanks everyone, i will have to just open it and look for myself. there hasnt been sun here in a few days haha. and i practice about 40 min away. it has been in a room since wed night. i would think its dry by now. ive seen beer get all over cabs. watch mine be the only cab ever ruined by nt even a shot glass worth of water haha. tho now that i think about it, something is rattling. we couldnt figure it out last night. it has to be inside.
 

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