I am in need of help I just bought 2 peavy 2 15 cabs I bought them off ebay and went to harrisburg to pick them up like an idiot i felt the lady was honest and I didn't test them ... they have a crossover built in and a titanium horn the one cab works great the other cab however I get very little with my guitar amp, up really loud you hear a slight sound coming from them I took out the back to check for bad connections and blown fuses and there was neither. I then took out the horn and tried playing just through the 2 15s same difference anyone got any ideas other then driving the cab to harrisburg and launching it through there window at 4 am??? its the same cabs that musiciansfriend and guitar center sell for 300 each if you want to look them up any ideas would be great thanks!!
there is no visual tears to the speaker either so I am guessing crossover , but why wouldn't the fuses blow? there are two in there glass type
Need some ideas on speakers!!
You are aware that plugging a guitar amp directly into speaker cabs with horns in them is going to sound like ass, right? You gotta have some air between, like: guitar-->guitar head-->guitar cab-->microphone-->PA mixing console-->pa amp-->Peavey dual 15"+horns.
Now, that said, my guess is the crossover. If you can get to the speaker cones, try pushing in on them a little, in and out, like if the speakers were pushing sound. Put your ear up to them (of course with no signal going to them) and listen to hear if there's little scratchy sounds, like the coil is scraping the magnet. That means the coil's deformed or out of alignment, and the speaker needs replacing or reconing. That's not an absolute diagnostic for bad speakers, but it's a start. The X-overs don't necessarily have to have a blown fuse to be bad... I've seen the coils of wire in them (they're called RF chokes) burn out without blowing a fuse, and there are usually a few less robust electronic parts in there that can pop, too. My advice,if you don't have any speaker background, take the whole shooting match to Kenny Oiler at Ford's Music for repair. -------->JMS
Now, that said, my guess is the crossover. If you can get to the speaker cones, try pushing in on them a little, in and out, like if the speakers were pushing sound. Put your ear up to them (of course with no signal going to them) and listen to hear if there's little scratchy sounds, like the coil is scraping the magnet. That means the coil's deformed or out of alignment, and the speaker needs replacing or reconing. That's not an absolute diagnostic for bad speakers, but it's a start. The X-overs don't necessarily have to have a blown fuse to be bad... I've seen the coils of wire in them (they're called RF chokes) burn out without blowing a fuse, and there are usually a few less robust electronic parts in there that can pop, too. My advice,if you don't have any speaker background, take the whole shooting match to Kenny Oiler at Ford's Music for repair. -------->JMS
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bassist_25
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I second that (e)motion.songsmith wrote: My advice,if you don't have any speaker background, take the whole shooting match to Kenny Oiler at Ford's Music for repair.
Oh no!!! That pun's so bad, it could have came from Tood.
"He's the electric horseman, you better back off!" - old sKool making a reference to the culturally relevant 1979 film.
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It usually means that the voice coils are malformed from either heat damage or from bottoming out and hitting the magnet assembly.evh5150 wrote:I did what you said and pushed in and out on the speakers and they both make a scratching sound? Does this mean they are shot??
Yeah they are shot.
... and then the wheel fell off.