[quote name='Rasta' post='664398' date='Nov 24 2009, 09:55 PM']I had a Behringer head, my first bass head, got it out the box and plugged it in at rehearsal and pumph....the smoke set off the alarms
Blessing in disguise though...i got my money back (eventually!!!) and got a Hartke 3500...much better amp too![/quote]
Aw man. Was it those Ultrabass Behringer things? I used to have one ( still got it actually), set on fire on two seperate occasions. First time during a gig and left this horrible smell in the air and black smoke. Second time I put it down to my own stupid kindness of letting the support bands bassist use it. I went to get something to eat and came back for when we played. Alls fine, set up, sounds good, kick off the set. About 10 minutes into it, my drummer pointed out flames emenating from the fan on the back, then black smoke and finally no sound what so ever. I had a spare head so managed to save the day.
Turns out the previous bands bassist had been using a bass overdrive pedal, with the gain on full, whacked the gain on my head up full and kept knocking the master volume up.
Suffice to say I think this was the main cause of the fire.
Left it for a week and it worked fine after that. Still does to this day even tho it is now retired from my live rig.