PV Nashville 1K Users did this ever happen 2you?

[JamesMCross]

Let me say first and foremost - I really like this amp, and this is by no means a complaint or any sort of negative comment on PV. I've used either a Vegas 400, a Session 400, or the Nashville 1000 for 5 years, and never had a single problem. I had a very odd experience Saturday - and could use some help....

Played a small club gig Friday night in Pasadena. the amp sounded good and clean all night.

Saturday night I worked at Eddie's in Manville, for anyone whose been there, maybe you can tell me what happened. This is a much larger room, and I needed the amp up a little louder to get out into the room. We did 2 sets, 1:45 minutes each...

First set, no problems.

Second set, about the 3rd song - I lose almost all volume, get no low-end response, all mid-rangey tone, and thin... I fiddle with knobs, I turn up, I take the profex II out of the loop - and it sounds worse. I took the other effects out of the loop, and it still didn't work right. I turned it up to about 3/4 pre and 3/4 master. Still nothing but static. I change out my volume pedal. Still no difference.

Exasperated and confused, I start yankin wires. I replace everything in the loop and play straight through the amp - but still no difference. So - I leave the amp turned up almost all the way, and do the best I can - but it sounds like I'm playing through a car radio speaker underwater.

Maybe 10 or 12 minutes of this goes by, and the amp all the sudden comes back to life all by itself.

I've not had this sort of thing happen to me before, but some of the guys tell me this club has bad power, whatever that means.

The guitar player lost some of his tone too, and said it was the neon light over the back of the dance floor.

Mine just fell out alltogether for about 20 minutes, then came back.

So - what happened?

[LARRY COLE]

Sounds like a drop in a/c voltage or what they call a brownout. The digital amp could have been affected more that the other amps.

[Mike Sweeney]

I think we've all had this problem to some degree or another. It seems as though it just shows up with the steel worse because of the power we need to get a clean sound.

Mike

[Jeff Lampert]

I've had the exact same thing happen to me twice. Both times it happened when I played very loud, one time using a fuzz box with an overdrive circuit. I read the Peavey 1000 literature, and it describes some sort of speaker protection compression circuit. I believe that is what happened both times. Perhaps some more NV 1000 owners might post with similar situations. It would be nice to understand what is happening here. I would say though that the WORST remedy is to turn up the amp. It takes a minute or two for the amp to reset itself, but if you keep pumping it harder and harder to make up for the lost volume, I think you prolong the problem as the amp continually tries to protect the speaker. <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jeff Lampert on 14 July 2003 at 07:18 PM.]</p></FONT>