| |
View Poll Results: What Giant Cab for awesomeness? | |
8x10(Carvin, Ampeg, whatever's on CL)
|    | 154 | 38.79% | |
2x15(GenzBenz, Peavey, whatever's on CL)
|    | 61 | 15.37% | |
Add a 1x15 to my 4x10
|    | 58 | 14.61% | |
4x12(GK, Avatar, CL)
|    | 71 | 17.88% | |
Carrots
|    | 53 | 13.35% |
 | | 
11-10-2011, 04:39 PM
| | | | Entering into big cab territory...
Sign in to disble this ad
So I play a variety of music and planned on getting by with a 4x10 rig like most of us. I've currently joined a new group that is some pretty heavy rock with two guitarists with a 4x12 for each of them, one may even end up running a 2x12 combo with a 4x12 extension. Needless to say the 4x10 is getting pushed fairly hard but more so for the shows would be the presence of a big cab. A lot of the songs will be on my 5-string or drop-d so the lower freq range is important. I figure that will be fairly enough background for you guys to give some suggestions, feel free to ask anything else I may have left out.
TL  R What giant cab set-up should I do to rock on stage?
__________________
Last Empire Cartel
|
11-10-2011, 04:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Vancouver | | | I feel obligated to say an Ampeg fridge or add another 410. |
11-10-2011, 04:43 PM
| | | | Shoot, forgot the add another 410 option, good thing I remembered Carrots...
__________________
Last Empire Cartel
|
11-10-2011, 04:43 PM
|  | bassist for staind | | | | | i think you should get a second cab of the same type you have already. if thats not enough, get a third.
__________________
"making noise since 1979"
|
11-10-2011, 04:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Boston, MA | | | what are you using currently? |
11-10-2011, 04:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Troy Missouri | | | My 8x10 was never over powered by our guitarists 2 half stacks. It was a Markbass CL108. Sealed 8x10 like an Ampeg but had Neo drivers so it weighed only 85 lbs. Didn't go into super low tunings, but held its own with a low B and sounded sweet in drop D on a 4 string. I just got tired of hauling it into small clubs cause it was overkill!
__________________
Just "doing the world thing, and rocking it." |
11-10-2011, 04:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: austin,tx | | Quote:
Originally Posted by staindbass  i think you should get a second cab of the same type you have already. if thats not enough, get a third. |
This^^ do this. And if that guitar player adds more speakers to his 412, slap him. |
11-10-2011, 04:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Santa Rosa, CA USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin89 Shoot, forgot the add another 410 option, good thing I remembered Carrots... | +1
Add another 410. |
11-10-2011, 04:49 PM
| | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ThrashMaster what are you using currently? | Backline 600 into GK410MBE 4 ohms, so if I added a cab to it I would have to get a new head. NBD as I am just looking for an excuse to upgrade 
__________________
Last Empire Cartel
|
11-10-2011, 04:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Santa Rosa, CA USA | | | Oops, that won’t work - the two cabs need to be 8ohm each to work - get a Ampeg 810E.
Last edited by Joe Louvar : 11-10-2011 at 05:31 PM.
|
11-10-2011, 05:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Aurora, Colorado | | | If you can find one, get an Accugroove Whappo Jr., or El Whappo. Those things push a ton of air and I think they sound great. I play an El Whappo and Tri210 driven by an Aguilar db750 and I am in heaven. Just a reference point, I am currently playing in a rock trio so I really need to fill a lot of empty space. I also do some lower key jazz and acoustic gigs where I just use the tri210.
If those don't tickle your fancy (there are some Accugroove haters out there), go for Ampeg 810. If I ever am forced to change cabs, I would switch to the 810 (or add another 410).
Hope that helps!
__________________
Colorado Club #44
|
11-10-2011, 05:50 PM
|  | Remember 12/21/2012! ...it's my birthday! | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cheviot, OH | | | Aguilar GS412
__________________
Adam
Official Aguilar Club Founder; Spector Club #84
|
11-10-2011, 05:50 PM
| | | | ^Thanks, more than likely I will be looking in the used market so it's luck of the draw on what comes up. I am in AZ and haven't seen a lot of Accugroove stuff(maybe everybody likes it enough not to sell it) but I see a lot of Peavey, GenzBenz, GK, Ampeg, SWR, etc. What does the El Whappo consist of?
__________________
Last Empire Cartel
|
11-10-2011, 05:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Kirkland, WA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin89 Backline 600 into GK410MBE 4 ohms, so if I added a cab to it I would have to get a new head. NBD as I am just looking for an excuse to upgrade | Well then, a perfect head/cab upgrade for your playing situation would be an SVT 7Pro and SVT 810!
I think that setup would be quite adequate! 
__________________
Club Clement #27
|
11-10-2011, 06:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Aurora, Colorado | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin89 ^What does the El Whappo consist of? | 15" subwoofer, 12" woofer, 6" midrange, and 2 high-frequency tweeters. Plus, each speaker is individually enclosed and vented so it's a pretty clear sound. The reason for MOST of the accugroove hate is because of the "accuswitch" which is suppose to change the cab from 4 ohms to 8 ohms. I guess they did a lot of tests where it wasn't actually changing the ohms accurately, so the company caught a lot of heat for that. Luckily, I got one of the early El Whappos that doesn't have the Accuswitch. However, My Tri 210 does have the accuswitch, but I've never had any problems with it. The Aguilar db750 can go down to a 2 ohm load anyway...so no worries for me!
__________________
Colorado Club #44
|
11-10-2011, 06:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Oxford, MS | | There is always the fEARful 1515/66 option. This would give you huge sound and light weight. Tons of info on here about the fearful cabs Http://www.greenboy.us |
11-10-2011, 06:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: MA | | | My Fusion 550 through an 8x10 is shear madness. It thumps! It usually goes through a 1x15 and 1x12 and thumps through those too!
__________________
Deception is the creative side of inconsideration, dishonesty is the dark side of inconsideration, and ignorance convinces you that both actions are justified~Me
|
11-10-2011, 06:31 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: London, Ontario, Canada | | | Eden 118
__________________
Ibanez RD Basses > Way Huge Porkloin (pedal) > BBE 383 Preamp > DBX 266 Compressor/Gate > Korg DTR-1 Rack Tuner > Peavey Tour 700 Head > Eden D118XL & D210XLT
|
11-10-2011, 06:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Richmond, VA. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by NKUSigEp Aguilar GS412 | I agree with Sig... If you can't cut through with 600 watts (hopefully you're boosting your low mids?) then you need more cone area.
Buy a great cab first... You're backline will sound even better but you'll feel an underlying current in your being to upgrade your head next... and that's when things get fun. What's a little debt, right?
Have a ball and build that killer rig! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
