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Reeltarded
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No output!!

:shock:

Oh...

:oops:

.. no input.. :roll:
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And...
Bad input cable is unfortunate...
No speaker cable is dumbass...
Amp not plugged into the wall is beyond description.
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I can add to that: getting input and output cables mixed up.
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overtone wrote:I can add to that: getting input and output cables mixed up.
Thump on the speaker cone and the guitar strings wiggle ?
At least for a second or two.

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Yes, a lot of thumping.
Like when a friend's voice from NYC suddenly emerged from my laptop saying Tony? Tony?
Not having any micro handy I rammed the headphones into the mic socket and managed to make myself heard by shouting back to New York. Hey, a headphone is just a mic backwards.
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-huge buzz-

-turns guitar all up all down all up x 1000-

-wrong cable-
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Post by Bob S »

With a dummy load plugged in, an amp will not produce sound.
You can scope the signal all the way through.
But it works better with a real speaker plugged in.
However the hiss & hum level is much better with the dummy load.
Just not good for guitar.
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Dummy load. I hear that.

All excited. Put head back together. Fired it up. Nothing. But.. But.. if I put the preamp tubes back in it works fine.

Sure. Right?
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I had a speaker cable go bad while I was trouble shooting an amp.

I never powered it up for very long because there was no output.

Now I check everything...... :roll:
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Post by briane »

have a buddy - plays with so many people and so loud - his output cable breaks and he has no clue.

I toasted OT later because he cant hear himself play.

true story.

time for him to switch to soft jazz methinketh.....
it really is a journey, and you just cant farm out the battle wounds
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