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2 15 inch cabs?

#41
RickenBoogie said:
Mesa Deisel 215 is one of my all-time favorite bass cabs. Plenty of mids, and more than enough bottom.
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My main rig is a road-ready Deisel 2X15 and a Boogie Buster Bass 200 head. Awesome rig for hard rock-metal with a loud guitar player - it really puts out the low mids that I love so much. It is heavy as hell, but not too hard to move with a good dolly.

-Y
 
#43
Tim C. said:
Too much rattle, sizzle and clack and not enough thump, right? I say if a cab gets you decent low end and a solid lower midrange you're 95% on your way to good bass tone. I can understand a dedicated mid driver, but I don't know why tweeters were ever introduced to bass cabinets.
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well it seems to me that a lot of great sounding music is made with what is considered lo fi by today's standards.....
 
#44
Tim C. said:
Too much rattle, sizzle and clack and not enough thump, right? I say if a cab gets you decent low end and a solid lower midrange you're 95% on your way to good bass tone. I can understand a dedicated mid driver, but I don't know why tweeters were ever introduced to bass cabinets.
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I agree. My 2x15 cabinet had a horn and I literally clipped the wires and pulled it right out of the cabinet one night. I think that a lot of people who utilize all that high frequency information don't play in bands. In a band situation, all that does is clutter up the mix (on stage and front of house). I don't want any cymbals, vocals or guitars in my frequency range, so I stay out of theirs.

Disclaimer: I have often been accused of being old fashioned and I generally take a dim view of any music recorded after man landed on the moon.
 
#48
Tim C. said:
A dual 15" cab probably won't have the same top end and midrange dispersion as a cab with smaller speakers or a multi-way cab will. They can also be very large and very heavy.
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I have an Ampeg B25B cabinet with 2 15" speakers, and it has loads of mid range, but not a lot of super deep lows, or sparkling highs. It's not that heavy for its size, as a comparably sized cab with 10" speakers would house at least 6 of them, and it's the magnets that make a cabinet heavy.

One thing about my particular cab, is that it doesn't have great power handling capacity for something this big. I use it with a 55 watt head, so that isn't an issue.
 
#54
Tim C. said:
They definitely add some weight, but the wood used to make the cab can get pretty heavy too.
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to refute the fact that they are heavy, but relative to the size, a 2x15 is pretty light. I think it's the fact that for their large size, they generally don't have great power handling like an 8x10 that makes them less popular than 10" speaker based cabinets.

I personally love the sound of a 2x15. I actually am disappointed when I play venues that have their own bass rigs and I leave the beast at home.
 
#58
To the OP, I’ve kept mine through the years for the tone and it could handle most gigs that I play. As an aside, I wish I had gotten one of their 4x12 bass cabs back then (‘83) just for the tone and grins.

Although at 130 pounds from the 9/16 birch, and even with the EV-L’s tone… it’s getting’ a tad heavy even with the casters. I’m thinking of making a switch to Horny Toads rig, the 2 1x15 Mesa’s is looking darn good. I tried a couple 1x15 Mesa’s with the D-180G and it sounded great, but that 2x15 cab does have that special old school mojo working for it, hard to beat IMHO. Tuff choices.

BC ;)

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#60
faceinbass said:
I had a Crate 2x15 for years and ALWAYS got compliments on my sound live.

I think it is the perfect config.

@georgestrings... That peavey cab is beautiful.
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Thanks, bud - although "beautiful" isn't a term usually associated with Peavey - hahaha!!! I think I'll replace the grill cloth this year, and maybe put some white piping around the grill - ala Ampeg - and spruce it up a bit that way...

I really don't have much into it - I traded some old gear I never used(and had nothing into) for it, and had the Kappa LFA's practically given to me... It sounds really, really good - and a pair of those LFAs are rated to handle 1200 watts... I swapped the single 1/4 jack for a Speakon, and with those changes this cab will handle pretty much any gig...

My other 2 main cabs are a Mesa PH610, an early 70s SVT810, and I've got a Traynor TS-115, so I think I've got things covered...



- georgestrings
 

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