Cab rattle!
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Cab rattle!
What do you do? I have bassman piggy back style amp, and the cab is a veritable rattle factory! Can I just tighten evry screw i find, or is there trickier ways?
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Re: Cab rattle!
I've had cabs that I tore up foam and put it between every possible area that could buzz or rattle. Pretty much every panel that had screws in it, I put a thin piece of foam between. I can't remember where I got the foam from, but it was really thin. I would think weather stripping foam from the hardware store would work, since they come in all different sizes.
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Re: Cab rattle!
It's usually the speaker baffle that has "loosened"
but in some ocassions, they hardware can rattle like hell. I once spend about 3 days trying to find out what caused the rattle in a BF Bassman cab, till I found that it was the speaker wire....
Also a too tightended baffle board can cause rattle as well. (as I learned the hard way
And the "foam" tip is very helpfull as well....as a rattling cab can be very anoying....
but in some ocassions, they hardware can rattle like hell. I once spend about 3 days trying to find out what caused the rattle in a BF Bassman cab, till I found that it was the speaker wire....
Also a too tightended baffle board can cause rattle as well. (as I learned the hard way

And the "foam" tip is very helpfull as well....as a rattling cab can be very anoying....
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