head or cab trouble? peavey VB2

[belljarsaway]

I recently purchased a peavey 115bx with a scorpion speaker. I checked it out in the store and all appeared fine. Last night I was getting a LOT of low end fartiness with the VB not turned up that loud. The head is rated at 225w and the cab at 200w but I seriously was not pushing it. I disassembled the cab and removed the speaker and it appears cosmetically fine. Any ideas what might be causing the flabbiness? Many thanks.

 

[dmrogers]

Don't read a lot into the numbers. That head has more than enough power to blow that cab easily.

What were your setting when you experienced this? Gain, EQ, etc....? If you have a lot of low EQ, and relatively high master and/or gain, that could cause the problem. What about the mid shift setting? Distortion setting?

You are not going to be able to push that 115 very hard.

I would suggest starting with the EQ straight up, no distortion, mid shift at 800, low gain (shoot for a clean setting) and start pulling up the master. You will easily find how far you can cleanly push the cab.

 

[B-string]

That is the problem with "matching numbers", you have too much amp for that cab. You will need to be very careful.

 

[Tractorr]

What numbers were your gain and master set to? Were you using distortion? What about your EQ? What about the resonance control?

 

[mpdd]

i used to get that with my sunn head and marshall 115 cab, i turned the bass way down and it stopped

 

[belljarsaway]

many thanks to you all. I hadn't actually changed my amp settings because I didn't think I would need to. my other cab is a 210 tvx and it handles it just fine. I may pass this cab on to my guitar player or upgrade to a beefier speaker.

 

[BassmanPaul]

upgrade to a beefier speaker.

If you do make sure it's a driver that will actually work well in your enclosure. If its characteristics don't suit it'll be a downgrade.