Topic: Equipment failure
First time this has ever happened in over 50 ys .I was booked to play a big charity gig in Blackpool recently , I was last to play and every thing had gone well. Problem with events like this is the limited sound check between acts ,so I decided to play through the events PA and not take my amp . Big mistake.
I plugged into the mixer as I have done at many other venues ,one channel for my guitar the other for my looper which had all my backing recorded on it .
12 bars into the first song the PA shuts down . We try again same problem so I speak to the sound guy who thinks its my gear at fault ,No there is no fault with any of my kit ,I've been doing this too long to run with faulty gear and I'd used every thing the night before anyway .
So he then thinks its the mixer channel so we swap things about change leads etc still the fault is there . He then wants to plug direct into the power amp , still the system shuts down .
So we sack it as his back ground music system works so he finishes with a DJ set . I pack up and go home where I plug everyy thing in to my system .
Guess what ? yeah it all works no problems .
My own conclusion , The power amp may have an input signal limiter which was switched on and the signal from my loop was to high . Had there been more time or if I had taken a big amp then I could have played .Every one understood and audience members came up and said they would have loved to have heard the show . but understood tech problems happens.