What a drag... 2 blown tweeters at one time

[johnnie]

I have Event 20/20 BAS monitors and Sat. night they both went at the same time. I heard a weird noise and then everything muffled. I just called Event and they are 40 bucks a pop.

The drummer had his electronic drums and went thru a "direct out" from an amp, right after I heard the noise everything muffled and the drummer said he smelled something electronic burning. I went in the live room and smelled it too. I am thinking somehow something in hs amp did something funky and sent a high freq. signal to my monitors.

Man, this sucks.

[XNASA]

1. Was there some device (mixer?) between the drum out and your monitors

Why wouldn't that device has offered some protection, I wonder? :shrug:

[johnnie]

2. The drummer has always connected thru the "brains" to my ins

I didn't pay attention because I thought he was doing it the same. He brought the stereo outs thru some amp monitor he has instead of the other way. I got a hot signal, but I just figured he had turned up his mains. I personally think something happened to his monitor system and sent some fucked up signal thru my system.

Luckily it is just the tweeters. Well, I am hoping anyway.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Bummer!

Had that happen to some SR speakers we use for rehearsal. Both at once. We never did figure out how that happened, either. They've been fine ever since, so it was a one off occurance. But, still, we had to pay around the same as your quote. Bummer having to pay extra, but getting nothing extra from it.

Maintenance, schmaintenance!
The Professor

[johnnie]

4. Yeah.. it sucks

And the whole band has no problem using my studio, but somehow I am the one who has to maintain it. At least the bass player said he will front the cash for this one, but he said he will make sure he says "tweeters" whenever he wants to record..lol.

[mitchum]

5. Why in the hell is he using ELECTRONIC drums?

Look, I'm no Luddite, but I do draw the line at electronic drums. To my ears, they all (regardless of the cost) sound like something coming out of a $30 Casio :)

[johnnie]

6. They don't sound as bad as they used to

I still don't like them for a serious recording but as the "engineer" at my studio, I love them for recording. Well..ok, in this case I wish I didn't use them...lol.

We were just working on some other stuff and the electronic drums were right for the occasion. He has some pretty good sets of different drums we could have used or even the set in the studio. Sometimes you have to go with what is working at the time.