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07-16-2011, 09:46 AM
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What makes the biggest difference in sound amp head or cabinet? |
07-16-2011, 09:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: New Zealand | | | Neither. Fingers make the biggest difference.
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07-16-2011, 09:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Cleveland, Ohio | | | That is really a difficult question. My guess would be the amp head, but not by much. The cabinet is also super important, and more important is the two being compatible. There is probably a wider range of choices in amp heads than speaker cabinets. The volume you play at will also make a huge difference. More inexpensive stuff can sound ok at low volumes. The ultimate answer is listen alot. You will hear the difference.
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07-16-2011, 10:01 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lake Havasu City, Az USA | | | You need the available power from a good head, but if the cab can't handle it you are SOL. The "best" cab will sound like crap with a bad amp head. The "best" amp and cab will not sound so good with a cheap bass. The "best" amp, cab and bass will not perform if you suck.
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07-16-2011, 10:19 AM
|  | Thunder-Bringer...annnnd Brony | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Houston, TX | | | Cabinet, doesn't matter what kinda head you have...if you have a cruddy cab with POS speakers then your head will sound atrocious any way you slice it.
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Originally Posted by staindbass  playing a gig in front of a massive amp is awesome, i call it a bass bath. | |
07-16-2011, 10:37 AM
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It took me twenty years to get this right.
There is a chain for good tone.
Bass-good setup-strings-effects-amp-cab.
All will effect tone, all are equally important.
I use to get great basses, and sub-standard amps.
And keep wondering why i did not sound as good as the next guy?
It's a learning process. |
07-16-2011, 10:42 AM
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07-16-2011, 11:02 AM
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07-16-2011, 11:04 AM
| | | | The cab is the hard part.
You can use a PA amp. If that PA amp is a
Crown or better, you have very high quality
amplification. Just add a preamp. You can
get a Crown that runs 700 watts with one
8 ohm cab and 1,100 watts with 2 - 8 ohm
cabs for less than $350 new. The bass and
peramp make the sound........ Most musical
instrument amps don't have the quality of a
good PA amp.
A decent cab cost a lot and is harder to find
one that actually sounds good.
Tabdog
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07-16-2011, 11:11 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Cab 100% for sure. There shouldn't even be a debate.
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07-16-2011, 11:18 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lake Havasu City, Az USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM Cab 100% for sure. There shouldn't even be a debate. | You surprised me  with a B15 and SVT in your stable you said Cab So you could use an OLD Vox SS POS and it wouldn't matter? 
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07-16-2011, 11:20 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Jon, I have used everything from my SVT to a rented Yorkville head from 20 years ago, and as long as the cab's good, I can get a sound out of the head by twisting knobs. But if the cab's bad, I am basically screwed. I'll do my best and I'll make it work, but it won't be what it could with the reverse situation.
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07-16-2011, 11:26 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lake Havasu City, Az USA | | You have not tried a old Vox Bettle Bass (SS made in the US, man that was a bad move by Vox). Its like farting in a 55 gallon drum, no matter how good everything else is. 
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07-16-2011, 11:31 AM
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Endorsing Artist: MTD basses and strings | | | | | Cabs...
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Originally Posted by dbamta What makes the biggest difference in sound amp head or cabinet? | Great cab weak amp = really good sound.
great amp weak cab = crappy sound. Quote:
Originally Posted by Downunderwonder Neither. Fingers make the biggest difference. | 
So I'll give you a Fender Rumble 30, and I'll take a pair of SVT Heritage series with 16x10's and you can make them sound the same...
How about two Berg IP3x10's and a Summit tube preamp & compressor vs. an Eden 1x12 cab with ANY amp you like...
complete and utter ********...
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07-16-2011, 11:37 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Toronto Ontario Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by B-string You have not tried a old Vox Bettle Bass (SS made in the US, man that was a bad move by Vox). Its like farting in a 55 gallon drum, no matter how good everything else is. | That move was all Thomas Organ and had nothing to do with JMI (VOX). Tom Jennings got throughly screwed in that deal!
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07-16-2011, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by BassmanPaul That move was all Thomas Organ and had nothing to do with JMI (VOX). Tom Jennings got throughly screwed in that deal! | Not faulting JMI for anything other than not reading the fine print! I hope T.O. at LEAST bought him dinner (maybe a movie too)
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07-16-2011, 11:44 AM
|  | keepin' the beat since the 60's | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Studio City, SoCal, USA | | | Hey - I played through a Super Beatle head and my own cab with 2 x 421As for years, and it wasn't bad! I did avoid using the Bass channel, however. What were they thinking?
There is 100x more variance in cabs than in heads.
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07-16-2011, 12:02 PM
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07-16-2011, 12:14 PM
|  | Moderator Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Bloomington, IN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM Cab 100% for sure. There shouldn't even be a debate. | +1 |
07-16-2011, 12:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sykesville, MD | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremy Allen +1 | +2.
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