Legion Sound?

So I was walking around the local music store when i saw across the way a strange logo, an "LS". I originally thought, maybe it's a realllllly old lds. I moved in for a better look, and discovered it was a legion sound 4x10. It seemed pretty small for a 4x10, and even though it had a used sticker on it, it looked brand new. Looked at the back, turns out its a 600 watt 8 ohm 4x10, surprise point number one. then the price. $100. I could have walked out of the store with that cab with the cash in my pocket. I couldn't try it out because i was picking up my furman and had parked in the fire lane, but if anyone has a good or bad experience with these cabs I might just have to head back over there (no rush, it isn't availible for purchase until july because the store runs a 30 day check to prevent selling stolen goods, hence the reason I was picking up my furman which i bought three weeks ago)

i didnt dig that deep, i looked at the back for a laugh, thinking it would be rated at like 250 watts, but the 8 ohm 600 watt handling (1200 peak) got me interested. still looking for users, I don't think they were neo speakers, but after some research i found out that they use madison speakers. Any good? how would they compare to other cheaper companies, namely avatar?

i'll probably pick it up at least for now, its a little too cheap to pass up if it doesnt completely suck. I'll go and play it tommorow and give it a more elaborate once-over and report back tommorow!

jp1994 said:

I noticed that cab sitting in Daddy's as well.
They won't budge on the price of used stuff. IME at least

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That'd be the one, its on hold til july though, kinda sucks. I didn't go try it out today because my plans in that area got cancelled, but i'll head down there tommorow and put it through its paces.

The guys at daddy's are idiots, IME. They don't make commission so they won't budge on their prices, as they don't care what they sell. Occasionally you run into an employee who knows more about the gear than your average walk-in, but I find myself correcting them about stuff I don't even know much about (one tried to convince me that the power rating was for each speaker rather than the entire enclosure, and refused to believe that a 400 watt cab had 4 100 watt speakers because, and I quote, "The PA in here is like 2000 watts, and we only have two speakers being run through it, so 400 watts isn't alot to put through a speaker because we put a thousand through ours"

Ok, so I promised this review on wednesday, and I know I'm a little behind, but I finally got out to daddy's this morning and was able to give this cab a good workout.

Here's the setups I used on this cab:
Amps-
SWR pro 750
Ampeg SVT-450
Hartke 3500

Basses-
Ibanez SRX 650
Gibson SG
P bass
Geddy

ok, the cab was wired up with the SWR so I started with that. First impression? Hollow. There really wasn't any strong sound coming from this cab, just flat, flat, FLAT tone. After some EQing I only made the poor low response show, and although I could get decent high mids out, I think it was more the SRX than the cab, as I've recognized that tone through another setup with that bass. The Gibson, which I didn't like in the first place, actually sounded decent with this setup. The pick-ups seemed to favor mids more than bass, which played to the strengths of this cab.

Because I noticed the lack of low end, I took a Geddy to this thing, and it was almost unacceptable the sound I got out of it. At this point, I knew I wasn't buying this cab. There is a noticable drop off point in the mids at about an A on the E string. The cab simply didn't have it in it to hit the lower notes.

At this point, I decided to switch the set up a little bit, exchanging the SWR for the Ampeg, and the Geddy for a P bass. Very slight difference, I worked the 'peg's bass eqs slowly up all the way to the top trying to get some bass out of this thing, and I eventually got some oomph from the cab, although not impressive by any means. Saying there was no "rumble" from this cab is a good way to describe it.

Just for another comparison, I took a head I'm very familiar with, a hartke 3500a and the geddy, and gave it once last run.

The Hartke's "low pass" finally got this cab to show some life, and with an eq basically diagonally down from left to right (like \)
I got a passable bass tone, although it was not remarkable or really giggable.

Conclusion: This bass cab is worth about $25 if you like playing 5 string, since you can only use about 75% of your notes and expect to be heard. Since it could barely handle an open E, I didn't bother with a fiver.

However, if you play with a pick, a P bass and focus mostly on mids (i.e. punk), than this cab might be a decent back up or practice cab if you want to keep your main rig at home. However, and blues, jazz, metal, rock... anything which utilizes low end, then pass on this cab. you'll be disappointed.

for reference, I played fingerstyle, all basses tuned right before playing to standard E (EADG), monster speaker cables and pro links between the amp/cab and bass/amp, respectively.

An ego-stroking BUMP for my first review!