Rescue a Blown Speaker?

[troykennedy]

Ok, I pulled a bonehead move. Got a brand new Scumback M75. Sounded so great. And, I plugged the cab into the wrong ohm-age. Should of been into 4ohms and I had it in 8. The second day of playing it the speaker blew. At least that's what I think happened. Real intermittent, buzzy sound.

Anyway, is their any way to fix it? Is it just a loss? I just loved the way it sounded right up to the minute it went out.

Weirdly enough, the Veteran 30 that was in the same cab seems to be fine.

Thanks!

[scottb1966]

The Scumback people might fix it. If they won't, there are lots of places to get it reconed. I blew a Weber speaker and they fixed it for me.

[Lespaulsignature 74]

Contact Jim Seavall at sales@southbayampworks.com (Scumback Speakers) he's a great guy and he'll help you with this problem.

[jbever]

I just had a 1958 P12Q reconed by Orange County Speaker Repair. Totally satisfied. Good prices, great communication, quick turnaround. I think the biggest consideration in reconing is the cost of shipping. They may also be able to talk you through initial troubleshooting.
Good luck.

[troykennedy]

Thanks guys! Much appreciated.

[Scumback Speakers]

Thanks guys! Much appreciated.

Troy, I sent you a reply via email, but the short story is this...if for some reason it's just bad, it will be rebuilt for free, just send it back to Weber VST with the box I sent it to you in.

Now if it has a burnt voice coil, from potentially too much power sent to it due to the ohm problem, that's not covered under warranty, but I'm intrigued as to why it blew anyway, and why the other speaker didn't. There could be a number of reasons, wiring mistake, ohm mismatch, etc.

But if it was just a bad one (hey, I have it happen every once in a while) I'll get it dialed in for you again.

And that just proves the old saying "Dude, it sounded awesome right before it blew up!"

:D

[troykennedy]

Cool, thanks Jim. I will send it in to Weber this week.

I have never blown a speaker before, so I'm not sure what that is supposed to sound like. It sounded like there was a short in it, only more buzzy. At first I thought the speaker connection was loose and the vibrations were causing it to shake loose and cause the sputtering. When I opened up the cab it smelt like electrical. It might be the voice coil. Yikes!

I was hitting it with a PT50 about halfway open. So, that is pretty loud.

I definitely was sending too much power through. Should have been 4 ohm and I was sending the cab 8. bummer