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Hey guys, i know this might be the wrong section.. Sorry.

Anyway, on to my question.

I recently got a bx4500h Head and a BB210 Cab (both behringer) from a friend.
I use to play guitar so this is my first bass amp setup.

I played it on monday at my friends house and it sounded decent.
Got home, plug it in and set it up the same way just to find that it makes this horrible scratchy distorted noise.
with all the tones, volume and gain turned way down it still shows the limit light. Even when i try cranking the volume up it doesn't go louder, and keeps making this sound.

Could it have something to do with the way it's wired at the back? Which is pretty straight forward according to me.

If i understand correctly the cab is 2x10 speakers and 8 ohm. Which equals 4 ohm. The head is also 4 ohm so i don't see that it could be a prolem.

I have an Active Cort bass and i have tried using the active and passive jacks to no avail.

Please help ☹
    Take it to a tech. Sounds like a problem with the power supply.
      Thanx :-[

      Hope it's not something major..
        I've heard of a lot of cases where it is a simple dry joint, but only a tech will be able to say for sure.
          Stupid question - if the bass guitar's preamp battery is flat, would the passive output still function correctly?
            aja wrote: Stupid question - if the bass guitar's preamp battery is flat, would the passive output still function correctly?
            Most are active pickups, so they don't have a passive output. Anyway, the guitar's battery dying wouldn't make the limit light on the amp go on all the time, but insufficient power to the circuit will (I've seen that a few times - specifically on Peavey, but the same thing happens with any similar amp with limiter).
              Come to think of it, i couldn't find a new kettle plug type power chord, so i dug one up in the garage.
              It has been joined, maybe it's not providing a suffient amount of power the amp/cab needs?
                7 months later
                Just letting you guys know that it was a mixture of cheap cables and a damaged kettle chord..

                All fixed ?

                Now it's time for a Tech21 Sansamp Bass Driver ?
                  boosted wrote: Just letting you guys know that it was a mixture of cheap cables and a damaged kettle chord..

                  All fixed ?

                  Now it's time for a Tech21 Sansamp Bass Driver ?
                  Don't overlook the Tech 21 VT Bass as well. I have one of those and it kicks ass!!!
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