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08-06-2010, 02:49 PM
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08-06-2010, 02:51 PM
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John K Custom Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA | | | VERY pro looking! nice job! |
08-06-2010, 04:16 PM
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08-06-2010, 04:23 PM
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08-06-2010, 05:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Spectacular! Did you add wood around the baffle to make the sides look thicker? |
08-06-2010, 05:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Portland OR | | | Nice solid-looking cab, I'd like to pick your brain a bit. Is this your first use of 3015 drivers? Can you share the inner/outer dimensions? Port dimensions? How much does it weigh? Is that a single grill for both drivers? I've currently got two 3015-loaded TL606-type cabs, might just be better off with something like you built.
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08-06-2010, 05:22 PM
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08-06-2010, 05:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Prince Edward Island | | | Beautiful, I wish someone close to me could build like this. Thinking of tackling a pair of very similar 2x15's myself in the next coming months and I will be coming back for reference surely.
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08-06-2010, 07:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: San Diego, CA, USA | | | Nice.freakin.work.
I'd like to thank you for doing this, and reinforcing my assertions that the 3015-loaded 2x15 is a kickass rig. |
08-06-2010, 08:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: austin,tx | | | Nice pro looking job. Do share sizes/tunings, etc. My only suggestion ( don't consider this nitpicking ) but maybe take a cheap can of flat black spraypaint and blacken in the foam that's visible through the port.....or not if he likes it that way.
It really does look like something you could put a logo and a pricetag on.....good job. |
08-07-2010, 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Nightbass  Spectacular! Did you add wood around the baffle to make the sides look thicker? | I'm wondering the same thing. Looks great! |
08-07-2010, 09:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Atlanta, GA | | Thanks for the compliments!
Weight is right at 70 lbs. It turned out heavier than I expected, but I didn't hold back when it came to bracing.
I doubled up the 1/2" ply around the baffle so that the baffles can lay against it from behind when assembling. Just something I thought would work well and it did.
The vb for the box is 6.5 cu ft. The fb is 45 Hz. I like an 18x22 inch footprint so that's what I went with. Not too big to fit through doors, but not too small visually either.
Will33, the foam isn't visible under normal conditions--in fact all you can really see through the grill is the silver frames of the drivers--but the camera picks it up. Here's a picture with just the light from the room: 
Koobie, it is a single grill, 3/16" holes, 3/4 bend on all four sides.
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08-07-2010, 12:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Portland OR | | | Seventy pounds for a dual 15 still seems like a pretty reasonable weight to me. My two TL606-type cabs weigh about 55 pounds each. Between that beefy handle and the skid bars it wouldn't be too hard to move around.
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08-07-2010, 12:17 PM
| | Less Ebay, more Mel Bay | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Phoenix, AZ | | For next time, you could probably shave a few pounds and achieve slightly better performance by putting the port all at the bottom.
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08-07-2010, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by rpsands For next time, you could probably shave a few pounds and achieve slightly better performance by putting the port all at the bottom. | I'm curious, how so?
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08-08-2010, 08:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: North Wales | | | Small world! That design looks incredily familliar! if by any chance the baffles are around 30mm from the front edge of the grill, I have a sneaking suspicion I've just spent a week building one too!
Me and a friend of mine run a PA hire company in Chester (UK), and wanted something for the low-end of a 3-way drum monitor. We foamed the inside of the grill, and held it in place with the batterns you can see in a [ ][ ] shape. then from the sides of the cab we drilled through and through the batterns to hold them in lace. now if we need to do maintenence on the drivers we can get behind the grill without having to wrestle with creasing the foam!
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08-08-2010, 08:47 AM
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08-08-2010, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by koobie I'm curious, how so? | If he put the shelf on the bottom he'd only need one. So you shave a 6" by 20" piece of ply or so. At least, it *looks* like he's got two shelf pieces there, and to my understanding you have to have them to make the tuning work properly
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08-08-2010, 11:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | 70ish pounds is way acceptable and nothing to be ashamed of; you did good.
My AMPEG SVT-215's are like 125-130# noticably lighter than the 810's but still quite heavier than your project.
Yes I agree the deeper footprint is the way to go. I have built a lot of 215's and have used the 36"X24" size range if you don't mind a little depth. Round ports can save weight.
That size and the extra depth really helps when stacking up 4 cabs stability wise. It also helps with road cases fitting vertically inside vans, where a fridge won't stand up in a case. There's a lot of things to consider.
The old days with fender sized cabs being only a foot thick you could get one hand on a bassman or showman cab and carry it; they were around 70# I suppose too. Those days I'd put one in each hand... 
BOB
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08-08-2010, 11:34 AM
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