Downunderwonder

The other possibility is the burning smell actually came from the cab. It's certainly possible to toast a higher rated cab with a lower rated amp by making it all go as loud as possible.

Your Ampeg has just about bit the dust. Aka one foot in the grave. Aka on its last legs. I reckon a fault in the cab would have sent the sound bad before the amp quit. Quid pro quo, the amp went toaster mode of its own accord. It's a mystery to me how it reset and continues operating after letting out magic smoke.

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I suspect battery life will trend from not good to miserable unless it's digital.

If you turn it up until it doesn't hardly get any louder than before, and then back off a smidge for good measure, you should never blow it up unless you go crazy with the low EQ.

Some NZ boffins have come up with a way to extract Lithium from the volcanic bore water used in geothermal electric plants. The gummint has taken a 20% stake to give them the capital to scale it into production. They already have a plant extracting useful amounts of silica for export. I wonder if there's any neodymium going to waste.

My last post I navigated away and it showed on the home page being the most recent post in that forum.

The Heritage SVT's were assembled in the USA. 'Component' parts from Asia were entire built up circuit boards. Ampeg USA had only to plug them in to one another and test = assembled. So none the wiser on whether Heritage B15 were handwired in the USA or assembled from handwired parts.

If even YT transmits 30hz your headphones won't do anything audible there but distort as you turn up. The distortion is audible, but it's at 60 and 120hz. You can do this with your '30 hz response' bass cabinets, but don't break them! If you send a 60hz sine that is only just audible, then send same voltage at 30hz you won't hear diddly squat. Bumping up the voltage until it becomes audible you will jump out of your skin if you you send 60hz at same voltage. It will sound oddly familar once you turn it down.

It's ok to gas a bit. I prefer not having to worry about batteries myself, but you do you.

But is it hand wired and assembled in the USA? Or is it handwired, and assembled in the USA?

There's a fair bit of bling for your 500 quid if you're into that sort of thing. Proceeds to the Freddie charity trust, so fair play.

In the absence of any other information this is the most likely scenario. Some men's clubs have been forced into opening up to women so I am blowed if I know what hobbies are ok to segregate when hanging around in leather and walnut drinking aged whiskey isn't.

The little white dots for knob pointers are going to disappear on a dark stage.

Eh? What promoter runs gigs in 80 cap venues in the sticks?

Camel slacks optional. Hip / paunch brace required.

Tweeters get the heebie jeebies from clipping. Woofers don't mind unless the overall signal gets them too hot aka overpowering/heating, not farting. Jumping on a distortion pedal doesn't cause bass speakers any problems unless you are at the bleeding edge already with the clean tone. Squarewaves are not squares.

Input gain or output 'gain'? Big distinction.

The later 12'' Fender Rumble 100 can keep up with a drummer and a guitar if they aren't crazy loud. Save yourself having to upgrade in 6 weeks time.

Another thought. If you prise the end cap off the top of the speaker stand there's probably a hole that you can feed in the NS stand. A few wraps of duct tape top and bottom would take up the slack.

Update???

The cost of their booze. The cut of their jib. How much I want the gig even if there wasn't a 3 hr drive on each end.

There are advantages to using the suggested reducing 'passive collet'. It is passive. Ie it uses the stand's tightening system as is, rather than the usual tapered collet. It doesn't require a doodad to grip both your NS top and found reducing pole top adapter. Said doodad provides two extra places for it to be wobbly whereas the collet should be 1 and done solid. Requires no modification of your NS hardware.

Did you try backing off the input gain on the 'farting' amps?

I thought we were in for a tough night. At soundcheck the soundguy kept riding my fader. The quieter I played the more he boosted me in the PA to where I am just brushing strings. Then when we hit loud I couldn't dig in at all. I had to get him to knock that chit off. Something must have clicked because the gig went fine. At the break he says to me ''Man you guys are dynamic!!", like he never heard a real live band before in his life. ''Without quiet there is no loud''. I don't know who said that first but it is so true.