sometimes the simple shit fucks you up.

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:02 am

After 5 months of wondering why I was not getting the volumes out of my amp that I knew it was capable of, I figured it out last night.
I had my gain and volume settings at 7-8 on my 700 watt swr head.
I knew this was not right but could not figure why. When I ran direct in the head, it was "booming" set at 3, when I plugged my wireless in, I lost all my gain. I adjusted the x-mit of the wireless and it was clipping the receiver at low volumes and sounded really muddy.

Last night it came to me, I was running a lo-z cable out of the wireless to a hi-z cable directly into the head. That is a X3 loss of signal going into the head, and I was driving the shit out of the head to get a good volume.
I knew this was the case, but never put it together.
Like I said, the simple shit fucks you up sometimes.

Anyone else experience something simple that drove you nuts?

silverback77 · Post by **silverback77** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:32 am

Totally, man. I've got so many connections between me & my amp that it's easy to miss when a pedal is halfway plugged in or something. I used to find myself replacing batteries in my bass, trying new speaker cabs...when it was just a cable that got knocked out a little bit.

BassPhemy · Post by **BassPhemy** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:56 pm

I've done it before too. A coupler cable not plugged in, a pedal unplugged. Stupid things.

dan · Post by **dan** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:03 pm

when i used to have a big pedal rig, i'f often get the inputs and outputs mixed up. that is frustrating as hell. these days i'm down to a simple footswitch.

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:35 pm

Forgetting to bring my bass.

"Why won't this work?"

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:54 pm

PflÃ¶yd wrote:Forgetting to bring my bass.

"Why won't this work?"

did that actually happen?

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:25 pm

PABassPlayer wrote:
PflÃ¶yd wrote:Forgetting to bring my bass.

"Why won't this work?"
did that actually happen?

Yeah, I got up there and started strumming my leg. "Shit, what could the problem be?"

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:08 am

BassPhemy wrote:I've done it before too. A coupler cable not plugged in, a pedal unplugged. Stupid things.

SuicideNote · Post by **SuicideNote** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:29 am

I have experienced problems that just turn out to be bad cables or something easy. It's frustrating.

At my bands gig last Friday the guitar player for the band that opened for us couldn't figure out why my speaker cab (they used our speaker cabs) would still distort when running a clean signal. The dude tried to say my cabinet was blown. At first I was angry and ready to destroy the punk bitch for ruining my gear, but then I realized that his guitar with EMG 81s probably needed a new battery. Problem solved, idiot.