Stroopy121 Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 Playing a gig last night, one of the bands has a pretty loud, snarling bass setup - playing a precision through a couple of pedals including an ODB and a Blackstar valve preamp pedal, into a Warick amp through an ashdown 410. He must've been riding the amp pretty hard as when he played, a white glow started to show up around the top two speakers! Never seen anything like it before! He brought the volume down after that and all returned to normal - anyone have any idea what on earth was happening?? xx Quote
Ant Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 dont some cabs have a bulb wired into the tweeter? to stop it blowing Quote
Acebassmusic Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 [quote name='Ant' timestamp='1365749898' post='2043751'] dont some cabs have a bulb wired into the tweeter? to stop it blowing [/quote] Yes. SWR Goliath cabs have a bulb to act as a "fuse" to save the tweeter. Not sure if Ashdown do. Quote
Stroopy121 Posted April 12, 2013 Author Posted April 12, 2013 Well colour me educated, I had no idea. Looked badass though, I'm considering opening up my cab and installing some blubs and LEDs to have the same effect! xx Quote
Badass Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 The older David Eden 10" cabs had them too, don't know about the new ones...Yeah looked true Bad-ass back in the day when a host of 4 x 10s all flashed a 'halo' of light at once. Even if it was not really a good thing to allow your cabs to be doing. Quote
xgsjx Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 [quote name='Stroopy121' timestamp='1365753858' post='2043810'] Well colour me educated, I had no idea. Looked badass though, I'm considering opening up my cab and installing some blubs and LEDs to have the same effect! xx [/quote] You could use colour changing bulbs so the strength of the signal changes the colour. That would be cool. Quote
hubrad Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 I once got sparks and smoke out of one of mine.. very impressive, but I have to say the sound quality suffered! Quote
Lfalex v1.1 Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 (edited) Don't some Ampeg cabinets also have this "feature"? Harder to see through the grille cloth, though. Edited April 12, 2013 by Lfalex v1.1 Quote
rumour6 Posted April 13, 2013 Posted April 13, 2013 I think Bose used it first in the 802's saved many a horn driver... Quote
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