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We have a winner! EBP is less of an issue for vented vs sealed than it is for vented vs horn loaded. The design of vented cabs and drivers works out best when you accept a minimum frequency and don't try to get any output below that point. Only then can you get high efficiency and manageable...

I'm pulling up a chair for this one. I'm of the unpopular camp that deep bass is the job of subwoofers, and if you don't have them, having a fat bass rig only makes the kick drum sound feeble by comparison. So who here knows what happens to the excursion of bass cab speaker(s) when you block...

Xsonics cabs are isobaric dual-driver designs. Isobarics perform no better than a single driver in a larger cabinet, but take twice as much power to accomplish the same output. It's just an expensive way to trade size for weight. So the question you should be asking is will a single 400W 12"...

Rent first. 31 band EQ's subject the signal to a lot of circuitry, costs some life out of the sound even with it set flat. Start by comparing bypass with a flat graph at a gig with the band playing as well. Even with no EQ adjustment, bypass cuts through better. The Presonus EQ3B is decent...

I've got $50 that says the BL is a cancer - he tries to do everything to please people except figure out how. They can be very good musicians and performers, but they are universally not leadership material. You should fight fire with fire and show him this thread.

So as I type, I've got two messages in with the frontman of one of my bands, which has good potential to step up to a national level next year (like my other band). One message is to pick dates to meet with two producers, both of which are eager to meet, the other is to ask him to move a gig he...

You hear with your ears, but you feel sound with your chest. Getting the cab up and close to your ribs gives you more feel without any increase in volume. If you can't hear you need more mids, not more bass. Mids are somewhat directional, but low end goes in all directions pretty much...

Yes, some engineers don't like post-preamp DI, that's why I just move the cable when they're not looking :) Yes, it has to be EQ'ed a bit, but so does a DI straight off the bass. Cab mics can't deliver deep lows as well as a DI, so I insist on a DI in addition to a cab mic. I'm an engineer...

So the Easter bunny, Santa Claus, and an accomplished sound engineer that can't make a decent PA sound better than a bass rig walk into a bar... If you're driving a big room, do whatever you have to, but when there is PA support, excessive bass bleed is just unprofessional. Raising your cab...

Yamaha powered mixers sound very good, but tend to be a little dainty. The Yorkville MicroMix 810 is a lot tougher and has more versatile EQ. I'd rather have cheap Yamaha passive speakers than comparable cheap Yorkvilles though.

Actually often a 4 ohm cab from the same manufacturer as an 8 ohm cab will be significantly louder from the same amp. The reason is that usually 8 ohm cabs have 8 ohm drivers wired series-parallel, and 4 ohm cabs are usually 16 ohm drivers wired all parallel. Typically higher impedance drivers...

I think there's a semantic issue here, the word "define" is misused in the OP. Of course we, the players, define the tone, the question is how much we utilize our amps to get what we want. I use my preamp to do a lot of tone shaping, my poweramp and cab are deliberately quite neutral so I...

I disagree about PA making backline irrelevant. I always insist on a post-preamp DI so the tone of my preamp is in the PA. It's part of my instrument, I'm playing it just as much as I'm playing the strings. The way I play it, it is as big a piece of the tone puzzle as pick-ups or strings, but...

The Eminence Delta Pro 12A is a good copy of the EVM 12L for much less. Hope you don't mind a little weight...

Fretted bass depends greatly on the amp. If you've ever played straight into a PA you know what your bass sounds like naked. Bass amps help a lot with some form of compression/saturation and coloration. IMO the preamp is the most cost-effective way to get great tone, sweet sounding poweramps...