My combo 'stuttered'... Uh oh

[pantherairsoft]

Using my EBS session 60 tonight for a small rehearsal with my drummer and
I think I almost killed it.

I use lots of effects with this project and i hot a spot with octave and envelope and my speaker literally stuttered... A split second of silence, a crackle, pop and back to normal again... As of next week i will have a Ashdown Five Fifteen 100w mini rig to tale it's place which I'm sure won't struggle at all... But can I assume I am currently pushing my EBS combo to the point of destruction?

[escholl]

Sounds like the overload protection might have kicked in, or there are a few other reasons why it might have done that, but I wouldn't worry too much about it to be honest. If it happens again or becomes a regular thing, then you may want to consider having it looked at, but most amps are pretty robust, they can take a bit of a thrashing.


There's a chance it could actually be a dry joint in the amp itself, I had a similar thing happen to me with an ampeg combo, stuttered now and again a few times then cut out completely -- thought I'd broken it. Turns out the vibrations had just wiggled loose an already poor solder joint in the amp itself.

You should be ok, really


I'm not sure the little ashdown 15 is going to make a huge difference, because I don't know what the EBS is like. But, I used to have an Ashdown P10 mini rig, which is the same preamp as the 5:15, into a 60W power section, into 2 1x10 cabs -- that thing had quite a kick to it! And it was really robust, I thrashed it for at least a year, and it never so much as hiccuped. I'd imagine the 5:15 will do you well

[pantherairsoft]

Cool cheers for that. I am having to run the combo pretty flat out and throwing lots of effects at it. I have seen video's of the Ashdown mini rig keeping up with drums and guitars without having to max out the volume, and I'm only playing with a drummer, no guitars to worry about.

Hopefully it will have enough additional headroom over the EBS to male it worth while.