BassBen Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Hi Guys n Girls, For some reason my clip light keeps coming when playing gigs or rehearses. The amp is a Peavey Firebass 700 (the Red n Black one) and the cabs I have owned was a swr 6x10 rated a 1000watts at 4 ohms and now I have a Trace Elliot 4x10 300 at 8ohms and a Ibanez SR500 active. The light used to come on on both cabs. The volume is only ever at 11 o clock and the input is at 12. Bass is at 10 Mid at 11 Mid shift 2 Treble at 2 Any idea to where I am going wrong? Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraktal Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Do you hear any noises/strange artifacts coming from your amp when the clip light happens? If not, I would just ignore it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBen Posted November 10, 2009 Author Share Posted November 10, 2009 (edited) Nope all seems good. Could it be to do with the active/Passive switch? As you said I have been ignoring it for years but I wonderd if I was breaking anything? Cheers, Edited November 10, 2009 by BassBen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny-lad Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 The clip light on my Peavey TNT seems to come on quite early, but IIRC, it says in the manual that it's only a problem when it's constantly on, rather than just coming on for peaks in your playing. It also seems to come on less when the speaker protection is switched off, but I always keep this on anyway as I've never noticed it affecting the tone or volume. Either way, it's never been a problem for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Its the DDT light right? Only time I had it on constantly was plugged into a blown, completely screwed cab. ONly occasionally heard it limiting the singla, should be an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Some (older?) Peavey amps were prone to the clip light activating a lot. The built in compressor (DDT?) would then 'squash' the sound a bit too. Mate of mine had this facility removed by an amp tech,and his sound improved immediately. On some of the Peavey stuff (Mk111 heads etc) there was a push button to defeat this-useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBen Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 Thank you for all the response guys. I don’t think I will worry about it. The cabs is in great condition never sounds distorted or anything. I will be putting this rig up for sale soon. Just got to take a few pics of them. I need to make way for the Hartke LH500 and a Barefaced compact that is on the shopping list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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