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A stupid mistake, need advice.
Well my band had practice today and I thought I would be playing guitar so I setup my peavey windsor head with the port city music 2x12 cab I have. Well we find out the new bass player can't come today but we go ahead with practice with me on bass(how it was origonally).
Well, after we're done I decide that I want to play guitar again and plug back into the amp. Turned it on, left it on standby and waited for the tubes to warm up for a minute or two. Well, I plugged in and wasn't getting any sound. I checked all the cables(save one..) yeah, you guess it.
I had conveniently forgotten that I had left the speaker cable hooked up to my bass amp and cab.
I immediately switched it off and praying I hadn't destroyed anything hooked it up properly. It was then that I noticed the head was set to 16ohms and not 4ohms, which is what the cabinet is. The 4x12 windsor cab is 16 but my 2x12 is only 4. I had played on it with that setup earlier for about 10 minutes. So, I switched it back to 4 dismayed at how careless I had been, I turned it on and played for a few minutes, everything sounded fine but:
1st: Do I need to have the amp looked at? I know I potentially could have fried the output transformer(or worse?). It sounded fine but I don't know if I could have damaged it already.
2nd: The cabinet didn't explode in the time I was running the 16ohm setting into the 4ohm cab...but I'm concerned I may have damaged the speakers.
Nothing spontaneously combusted but should I have my setup looked at by a professional?
Or did I just get lucky this time.
I'm always so careful with my gear..I still can't believe I did that. Thanks in advance...
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