chrisasp Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Hi. Anyone's advice would be much appreciated. I run a markbass little mark 3 and mark 102 2 x 10 8 ohm cab. after last nights gig I smelled a strange hot plastic smell from my cab. I presume something's getting hot in there. I do not have the head cranked , was using a quality speaker cable so bit confused. Only thing I can think of was that I used my microsynth a bit more at that particular gig and the speakers were definatly sucking air and I had the sub octave high. Could this be it. Has Anyone had this happen to them ? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Lots of lows will shoot more power at the cab. Is there a tweeter in it? Even if it is off, the attenuator will be handling the power, so it might be that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisasp Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 Thanks for that. Yeah there is a tweeter , so you think it' may have damaged the tweeter or maybe pushed it a bit too much ? Wasn't a extreme burning smell but more like hot plastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Is it a switchable tweeter? Might be te tweeter, but woofers get hot also, if you hit a tweeter hard it makes horrible noise, but if a tweeter is turned down, sometimes something else heats up instead of noise, that is the not a big deal scenario, because you break something you don't use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafbass02 Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Fwiw I've had two markbass amps that smelt like that (heads) for the first several hours of use, even easy bedroom use, then it went away. Dunno if that's any help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisasp Posted September 11, 2012 Author Share Posted September 11, 2012 Thanks for the advice guys. I'll give it a good run this weekend when gigging and see If it happens again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomBass Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 (edited) A very long time ago I had a funny burning smell in a cab. Turned out to be the driver: he'd dropped a ciggie in the footwell. So sorry... Edited September 12, 2012 by RandomBass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomBass Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Oh dear - did I kill this one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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