It’ll wake you up! It will probably cause a temporary ringing and/or mess you up for critical thinking for a bit. Properly calibrated (even to K23), a 0dbFS square wave shouldn’t permanently damage anything. In the studio, if it actually causes permanent hearing damage, your monitors were turned up WAY too loud, and if it damages your speakers, they weren’t actually big enough to begin with. This partly because I sometimes actually do want to send absurdly large numbers between tracks, but. I had to go to the FOH while the audience watched me, they said they couldn't leave and I needed to get a ladder for the stage manager, so I went ALL THE WAY AROUND THE THEATER AS EVERYONE WAS WATCHING ME, THE BAND IN DISBELIEF but still passing around solos, they see me get a fucking LADDER from the back, walk ALL THE WAY AROUND THE THEATER, and then the stage manager went and inspected the speaker and disconnected it as we were playing. People were cheering like it was some kind of like. High on shrooms, I was on stage in a 7 piece band, was playing a solo while I saw the speaker smoking and distorting (physically, melting ((thought it was a result of tripping))), and after the solo, put my guitar on the stand and walked off. who tripled the power output? The company? New amps? Or the band? The band laughed it off and didn't blame me, but still a bit stressful. Luckily EV replaced them under warranty but they really shouldn't have. So my usual "kiss the clip indicator" practice literally melted/seized the voice coils in both subs. They failed to tell me they essentially tripled the power output with new amps for those subs. One night I'm 40 minutes into the show, all low end disappears on both sides (huge 18" EV subs). I'd usually have line-of-site of the clip indicators for the QSC sub amps and whatever their wattage was, I could just bump the clip indicator every so often and know I was in the sweet spot where I had maximum thump without damaging anything. I had been mixing this particular band for a couple years and I knew their PA like the back of my hand. Either the bands rented one or they brought their own and all I had to do was mic up, mix, tear the mics down, go home. I ran sound for a lot of bands in the 90s, it was a great gig, I didn't have to own a PA. Happened during a gig where I wasn't in charge of sound.Īnd was on shrooms and saw a speaker burning and wasn't sure if it was real.
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