BassmanPaul

If you are using the new cabinet with a 2x10 combo try to stack them so that the tens are verticaly aligned. Doing so does make difference. out in the room and you'll hear yourself better. Make sure, using the battery test, that both speaker sections are working with the same polarity. Otherwise the cabs will be fighting each other all night long!

I'm glad you got your problem sorted.

In my mind not really. Your dad bought the amp and paid good money for it that possibly was tight at the time like most of us. It was designed for keyboards not bass guitar. Certainly use it but use it respecting your father's feelings on the matter. Destroying it by using it "as I wish" would be a selfish act.

Then stack the 15 in the top position so you can hear it when it begins to fail and you can do something about it!

Three strokes didn't help my memory one bit. I'll put something down, forget where and have to search the house until I find it right where I left it!!!

Nor should your amp!!! It might bet too hot and sweaty!! What are the cabinets?

For fifteen quid it's a nice toy to add to whatever collection of amps you have. If you like the tone you could always stick a microphone in front of it for larger venues.

@Tjohnlee Please understand that we, as a whole, are not deriding you in any way for the failure of your 15" driver. it happens regularly especially when a 15 is mated with a more able 4x10. The pairing is not a good match no matter its popularity. I feel that maybe the pairing was first shown in a marketing ad so that both cabinets could be displayed in one photo. The so called logic is that a 15 for the lows and the tens for highs. This is false thinking as a 4x10 is far more able to put out lows than a single 15. If you must use the pairing stacking the 15 on the top means that when it is having trouble keeping up with its big brother you have a better chance of hearing it begin to fail and can take steps to remedy the situation. May I wish you luck and a happy new year!

Just as an add on to this subject, SpeakOn plugs come in two main varieties. The two pole just has plus 1 and minus 1. The four pole, which is pretty much the de facto standard, has both plus and minus 1 and plus and minus 2. The two pole plug will connect into a four pole socket using the #1 pair. A four pole plug will not connect to a two pole socket. If anyone is building a SpeakOn cable avoid the two pole hardware.

Just as a post completely off topic: my Mother and both my older sisters went to teacher training in Bingley. As a kid I visited them many times in your nice little town.

@kwmlondon Does your dad know you're messing with his stuff??

@Bassy Let us know how this all turns out please. It will add to the current knowledge base.

No one is ever happy over there on TalkBass. I seem to recall that Ampeg had a few teething problems when the units first came. out but they were taken care of very quickly. I'm sure the current batch of offerings will be trouble free.

wire Plus1 to the woofer's positive terminals and Minus 1 to the woofers negative terminals. usually the woofers will have red terminal for positive.

To my mind that's the obvious way to do things. You always need a way to quieten an amplifier otherwise any sudden large signal would push the power amp section to full volume which could lead to speaker damage. The vast majority of stereo power amps have level controls for each channel.

Peavey do make good reliable gear.

When I left school I took an apprenticeship that included engineering education. The company was Automatic Telephone and Electric on Edge Lane in Liverpool. the site was known as Strowger Works.

I have a similar contact file to your I think. Commissioning telephone exchanges was my job in life! I;d walk into a new building full of grey or straw silent racks of equipment. When I left everything was tickety booming like it was supposed to do. I wouldn't mind if I actually could get a phone number for myself! LOL I loved that job and I was very, very good at it! When I got to Canada the powers that be informed me that my EE degree that I had worked so hard to achieve was void unless I wert back to school for two more years. Having a wife and two small boys I couldn't spare the time. I took a job servicing HiFi stereo equipment to get us trough the winter months. Contacting the guitarist from the last band in Liverpool, he had moved to Toronto before us, he suggested I tried Drafting. I was accepted on contract but eventually invited to join the staff of Ontario Hydro. Working on fossil fuel and Nuclear generating stations. This led to a good pension and a benefit package.

Nice to see you not being a Scrooge with your thanks!

Say that again and you're done for Fella!!! LOL

I'm 77! Thinking back to my Lionheart days we had so much stuff to carry. Guitar: Fender Twin reverb Bass: H&H twin 15. 150W tube amp I built eventually replaced by a 200W @ 4Ω dual Mono SS amp and pre-amp again built by me. Keys: Two different ARP Synths, Fender Rhodes played through a 4x12. Hammond organ and leslie. Drums: A very large kit. PA: 2 Altec A7 PA cabinets each mated to a very large Altec horn. 4 Vocal monitors each with a 12 woofer and horn Power amps for mains and monitors. We also carried `a lighting system with four lights on stands each side of the stage and the miles of cable they entail. there's more but I can't think of any at the moment.

Let's see if you feel the same when you eventually get to my age!!

I'm glad I'm not the one who has to move it!! LOL

Use a 9V battery across the speaker lead and watch how the cones react. If one moves in with the battery positive against the tip of the jack and the other moves out they are not operating with the same polarity.

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