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Monitor amp/speaker problem
I'm sure this has been brought up before, but I can't seem to find it
archived. One of the speakers that I have for monitoring seems to go out frequently, only to be brought back into action by cranking the volume on my board momentarily. It's a pretty common problem, I guess. And something I've dealt with for awhile.. but now it seems to be getting worse and very annoying. Now I can't listen to playback at a normal volume.. it has to be blasting or the speaker stops. Is the problem most likely in the speaker, the amp, or the board? |
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Monitor amp/speaker problem
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:20:32 -0800 (PST), "
wrote: I'm sure this has been brought up before, but I can't seem to find it archived. One of the speakers that I have for monitoring seems to go out frequently, only to be brought back into action by cranking the volume on my board momentarily. It's a pretty common problem, I guess. And something I've dealt with for awhile.. but now it seems to be getting worse and very annoying. Now I can't listen to playback at a normal volume.. it has to be blasting or the speaker stops. Is the problem most likely in the speaker, the amp, or the board? It's a common problem if your mixing board is a Mackie, one of the range that suffered from the ribbon cable problem. Else, all you're telling us is that something's broken. You'll find out what by swapping speaker, cables, amplifier between channels. |
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Monitor amp/speaker problem
One of the speakers that I have for monitoring seems to go out
frequently, only to be brought back into action by cranking the volume on my board momentarily. It's a pretty common problem, I guess. And something I've dealt with for a while. But now it seems to be getting worse and very annoying. Now I can't listen to playback at a normal volume. It has to be blasting or the speaker stops. Is the problem most likely in the speaker, the amp, or the board? Well, the first thing to do is to SWAP THE SPEAKERS, right? If the problem remains with the speaker, the speaker is at fault. If it remains with the channel, then the amplifier or board is at fault. You then swap the input cables to the amps. If the problem is still on the same channel, then the amp is at fault. If not, the board. (We're assuming it's not some weird problem with the cables.) I'm going to be critical here. This is Troubleshooting 101, and anyone who works with electronic equipment should know how to do it. |
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On Dec 20, 8:51*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
wrote: One of the speakers that I have for monitoring seems to go out frequently, only to be brought back into action by cranking the volume on my board momentarily. It's a pretty common problem, I guess. And something I've dealt with for awhile.. but now it seems to be getting worse and very annoying. Now I can't listen to playback at a normal volume.. it has to be blasting or the speaker stops. Is the problem most likely in the speaker, the amp, or the board? Any of the above. *Could be a cable, also. *Swap the speakers right to left and see. It's more likely to be the amp or the console, though. *Leaky capacitors causing a stage to get misbiased is a common cause for this. *Then again, dirty connections and cold solder joints cause it too. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. *C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." Ok, well actually I had already tried both the cables and switching the speakers. So I know it's not those. Not really sure how to test to see if it's the board or the amp, though. However, I do have a headphone out on my board which is controlled by the same volume as the mains. It does not have the same problem when listening through the phones. Does this point to the amp? |
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Monitor amp/speaker problem
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:31:09 -0800 (PST), "
wrote: On Dec 20, 8:51*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote: wrote: One of the speakers that I have for monitoring seems to go out frequently, only to be brought back into action by cranking the volume on my board momentarily. It's a pretty common problem, I guess. And something I've dealt with for awhile.. but now it seems to be getting worse and very annoying. Now I can't listen to playback at a normal volume.. it has to be blasting or the speaker stops. Is the problem most likely in the speaker, the amp, or the board? Any of the above. *Could be a cable, also. *Swap the speakers right to left and see. It's more likely to be the amp or the console, though. *Leaky capacitors causing a stage to get misbiased is a common cause for this. *Then again, dirty connections and cold solder joints cause it too. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. *C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." Ok, well actually I had already tried both the cables and switching the speakers. So I know it's not those. Not really sure how to test to see if it's the board or the amp, though. However, I do have a headphone out on my board which is controlled by the same volume as the mains. It does not have the same problem when listening through the phones. Does this point to the amp? So why did you say "Is the problem most likely in the speaker, the amp, or the board?"? The amp has two channels. Swap inputs and outputs so what was going through the L channel now goes through the R. |
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