Last night I backlined my two Eden D210XLT cabinets for a show. Paired, they're 4ohm and 700w handling.
One bands bassist was using a 500w head but also using a crazy amount of gain. During their set the pace started stinking like something was burning. Everyone was smelling amps to locate the smell. None of the amps smelt and we couldn't locate the source. Until we checked some lights near my cabinets and realized the smell was coming from my speakers. All 4 speakers smelt like hot voice coil.
I made that bassist turn volume and gain down and they played their last song.
I used the cabs for my band after and the speakers sounded as articulate and punchy as normal. No distortion coming from the speakers.
When I put the cabinets in my car after the show, I could still faintly smell it.
The smell was not apparent when I dropped them off at our practice space.
This was the first time these cabinets were pushed at show volume. One of the cabinets came from a guy who used it for home practice and never pushed them. The other was in a studio for over 20 years and not used often. I've used them for band practice for about a year but they don't see more than 250w at practice and I don't use a lot of distortion. Someone at the show said it smelt like a speaker breaking in but I'm not sure I believe that. Adding that into incase there's truth to that.
I'm going to go check them out in about an hour. I don't think I'll be able to see the voice coil directly to check for burns. I'll be bringing an ohm meter to test impedance. I know that you can push on the speaker to feel for the coil scraping.
What else can I do to test if these speakers are OK?
One bands bassist was using a 500w head but also using a crazy amount of gain. During their set the pace started stinking like something was burning. Everyone was smelling amps to locate the smell. None of the amps smelt and we couldn't locate the source. Until we checked some lights near my cabinets and realized the smell was coming from my speakers. All 4 speakers smelt like hot voice coil.
I made that bassist turn volume and gain down and they played their last song.
I used the cabs for my band after and the speakers sounded as articulate and punchy as normal. No distortion coming from the speakers.
When I put the cabinets in my car after the show, I could still faintly smell it.
The smell was not apparent when I dropped them off at our practice space.
This was the first time these cabinets were pushed at show volume. One of the cabinets came from a guy who used it for home practice and never pushed them. The other was in a studio for over 20 years and not used often. I've used them for band practice for about a year but they don't see more than 250w at practice and I don't use a lot of distortion. Someone at the show said it smelt like a speaker breaking in but I'm not sure I believe that. Adding that into incase there's truth to that.
I'm going to go check them out in about an hour. I don't think I'll be able to see the voice coil directly to check for burns. I'll be bringing an ohm meter to test impedance. I know that you can push on the speaker to feel for the coil scraping.
What else can I do to test if these speakers are OK?
