Trace Elliot dropped from crane - 40 foot

[Stingray5]

They say the amp worked ok after the drop.
A demonstration of this would have been nice!
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySsSwmSq7wc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySsSwmSq7wc[/url]

Steve

[GreeneKing]

I love the insane laughter

[ashevans09]

In all fairness I would be giggling like a schoolgirl too...

[Musicman20]

That is awesome...wonder if lightweight amps could take this?!

[Buzz]

Didn't they do this is the 90's with the last series of amps as well by chucking them off the roof of a building?

Edited June 6, 2009 by Buzz

[MacDaddy]

Was it Eden who on their website had the amp that had been through a house fire? IIRC it was scorched and the nobs had melted away but it still worked fine.

[OldGit]

A real Essex TE amp would have been dropped onto concerte, not grass...

[MB1]

MB1.
An original Trace Elliot amp would have pulled the Crane Over!

[Kongo]

I'll trust this ruggidness...The new series TE gear is just as good.

[Protium]

[quote name='Musicman20' post='507156' date='Jun 6 2009, 06:55 PM']That is awesome...wonder if lightweight amps could take this?![/quote]

Nah - would probably burn up half way down

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I don't think I'm likely to be dropping my LMII off any tall buildings anytime soon, so I think I'll be OK.

[ashevans09]

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='507223' date='Jun 6 2009, 08:51 PM']I don't think I'm likely to be dropping my LMII off any tall buildings anytime soon, so I think I'll be OK.[/quote]

Aaaah you [i]never[/i] know what might just happen... :brow:

Edited June 7, 2009 by ashevans09

[Kongo]

[quote name='ashevans09' post='507338' date='Jun 7 2009, 01:45 AM']Aaaah you [i]never[/i] know what might just happen... :brow:[/quote]

Yeah, a gust of wind might just carry it away when you turn your back!

[ashevans09]

[quote name='Kongo' post='508359' date='Jun 8 2009, 05:24 PM']Yeah, a gust of wind might just carry it away when you turn your back! [/quote]

True dat.

Sneeze and it's gone!

[hubrad]

I like this.. a bit short and as you say someone should climb down and plug it in, but ho hum!
Try this one:
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXB9jpYhX1k"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXB9jpYhX1k[/url]
for gig bag testing! Filmed upstairs here.

[Pentode]

Right! That's it!

I'm gonna chuck my SVT CL off the roof!

Anybody give me a hand lugging it up there in the first place?

[BarnacleBob]

Never mind that, which bass player could you drop 40 feet from a crane and he would still work?


BB

[Kongo]

[quote name='BarnacleBob' post='511650' date='Jun 11 2009, 10:15 PM']Never mind that, which bass player could you drop 40 feet from a crane and he would still work?


BB[/quote]

Jeff Berlin?
...Could we not at least try?

I saw an article in Total Guitar years ago where they got mad in their office and, with having to review yet ANOTHER hardcase they decided to put a guitar in it and throw it down the stairs and then out of the window, about 5 stories high I think...and found the guitar did not have a mark on it at all...and the case survived!
So from an angry test, it went to a 5 star review.

Edited June 11, 2009 by Kongo

[The Funk]

[quote name='BarnacleBob' post='511650' date='Jun 11 2009, 10:15 PM']Never mind that, which bass player could you drop 40 feet from a crane and he would still work?[/quote]

Anthony Jackson. But the crane would be done for.

[alexclaber]

I'd like to see them do that with a combo or cab!

Alex