Took me 11 months to realize our bass amp was plugged into a lamp dimmer

Back in 2017 me and the guys were recording in my buddy's garage in Akron and our bass tone kept cutting out mid-song, only during the louder parts. We tried new cables, swapped the bass, even blamed the drummer for a week. Finally I noticed the outlet had a dimmer switch on the wall above it, someone must've installed it for a porch light or something. The amp was drawing too much power through the dimmer and it was clipping the signal every time we hit hard. I turned the dimmer all the way up and bam, problem solved after 11 months of frustration. We redid the entire EP that night honestly. Has anyone else found some weird household thing totally killing their sound?

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