mightypudge
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I purchased a "demo" Vox AC30HW2X with Alnico Blues from a reliable retailer on Monday last week. It sounded fantastic at rehearsal on Wednesday, but Saturday night during its inaugural gig the right speaker blew. Thankfully, the retailer is exchanging it for a new one. But I really don’t want to go through this again.
At the time when the speaker blew I was running my pedalboard into the Normal channel of the amp. The amp was in 30-watt mode with the channel volume a bit less than 1/3 of the way up, at the most. The Master Volume was disengaged. I was basically at gig volume for a small room. My pedalboard consists of two overdrive and two distortion pedals. One pedal is always one, sometimes two for solos. I also have a few modulation effects and a delay. The amp was not cranked by any means and the overall tone of the amp without pedals was clean.
The whole reason I bought the AC30 was to run it this way - pedals > amp and although I knew the Alnico Blues are 15 watt speakers I did not consider my usage to be outside of the normal working parameters of the speakers.
So...did I blow the speaker and am I likely going to run into this issue again? Or is it entirely possible the speaker was bad, or possibly weakened by the previous owner?
At the time when the speaker blew I was running my pedalboard into the Normal channel of the amp. The amp was in 30-watt mode with the channel volume a bit less than 1/3 of the way up, at the most. The Master Volume was disengaged. I was basically at gig volume for a small room. My pedalboard consists of two overdrive and two distortion pedals. One pedal is always one, sometimes two for solos. I also have a few modulation effects and a delay. The amp was not cranked by any means and the overall tone of the amp without pedals was clean.
The whole reason I bought the AC30 was to run it this way - pedals > amp and although I knew the Alnico Blues are 15 watt speakers I did not consider my usage to be outside of the normal working parameters of the speakers.
So...did I blow the speaker and am I likely going to run into this issue again? Or is it entirely possible the speaker was bad, or possibly weakened by the previous owner?
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