Splitting Cabs?

[T-Bone5566]

Is it worth to buy 2 cabs and put one on one side of the drummer and the other on the other side instead of stacking them? This should balance the bass sound wouldn't it? Did anybody try this? I was thinking of getting two 1x12 and setting them up like this? I hear complaints from the guys on the other side of the drums not hearing the bass.

What do you think?

[Blues Cat]

Originally Posted by T-Bone5566

Is it worth to buy 2 cabs and put one on one side of the drummer and the other on the other side instead of stacking them? This should balance the bass sound wouldn't it? Did anybody try this? I was thinking of getting two 1x12 and setting them up like this? I hear complaints from the guys on the other side of the drums not hearing the bass.

What do you think?

You'd think it would, but it doesn't actually. You get comb filtering. Better to stack them vertically for better horizontal dispersion.

But if you like the way they sound split then do it.

[BurningSkies]

For the guys on the other side of the stage it would probably be better, but out in the crowd, your sound would suffer.

[rpsands]

Do not do it. The worst thing is that you get LF cancellations.

Read this:
http://billfitzmaurice.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=398

[somegeezer]

Get the bass through the monitors better if they can't hear you.

[billfitzmaurice]

Originally Posted by T-Bone5566

Is it worth to buy 2 cabs and put one on one side of the drummer and the other on the other side instead of stacking them? This should balance the bass sound wouldn't it? Did anybody try this? I was thinking of getting two 1x12 and setting them up like this? I hear complaints from the guys on the other side of the drums not hearing the bass.

What do you think?

Get two 112, stack them vertically, aim the lower cab across the stage. What they can't hear are the directional mids and highs.

[T-Bird]

Hi.

What the others have said.

From the bands POW it's better, but the audience suffers.
Then again, based on the general tone of discussion on all the MI sites (exept for the more pro-oriented perhaps) it's always me, Me, ME. People don't tend to take the audience too seriously in the first place.

Back in the day there was two Marshall stacks in the band I was playing in and I had the guitar bottom and my bass top on my side and the guitarist had the bass bottom and the guitar top on his side. Fine for rehearsals, never took 'em out to gigs. Because we didn't have any .

Regards
Sam

[countrybass007]

FOR WHATEVER THE REASON? It does seem to sound better when you keep the bass rig all in one location. Over the years many of us "old timers have tried the cab on each side trick, and it just doesn't come out sounding that good.