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2 x 15 cabinet
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Check these out. 2x15" Bass Guitar Speaker Cabinet | 215 Bass Cab | Dual 15" Speakers
I bought one about a year ago on sale,and it kills. A pair of these will kill any Marshall stack. Clear and punchy.
I bought one about a year ago on sale,and it kills. A pair of these will kill any Marshall stack. Clear and punchy.
I haven't played the Dually but I must say I am tempted to buy a pair. Awhile back I found recordings with both the Eminence and Faital equipped version. Personally I much preferred the smooth extended top end of the Faitals. To me the Eminence drivers have too much gank for the sound I am after. Anybody have a link to these recordings?
Beyond that I have some old EVM 118Bs that sound pretty sweet with big tube heads. I believe the EVM series had a small diameter voice coil intended more for extended mids than maximum wump. If that's what you are after, you might look for an old Boogie dual 15 with EVM 15Ls or 15Bs.
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If you like the tone, the fearful cabs are pretty potent. I used 2 single 15" Bag End cabs for quite awhile, I really liked the sound and I got a lot of complements on my tone... then I played a EA Wizzy 12. The Wizzy was very very close to the Bag End and much easier to cart around. I bought one and then another but I never really needed the second one. I still get a lot of complements on my tone using the Wizzy 12. If you want more low end check out the M Line Wizzy but I've never needed more low end with mine.
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I went through a bunch of 2x15's (Mesa, Trace, Peavey, Ampeg, SWR, etc....literally everything I could play) until I found the Berg NV215. Everything else, imho, wasn't even close paired with my SVT and passive basses. Still, that's the sound in my ears that I wanted.
Eden once had a model D215XLT that was by leaps and bounds the best sounding 2 x 15 cab I ever heard. It sounded huge but preserved fine details in the tone. It really made magic. They are pretty rare to find.
The swr big bertha is a tone monster, you can even go modular with 2xSon of berthas for about 600-700$
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I used and really liked the SWR son of bertha 1x15 so I used a pair of em. It gave me 4ohms and were lighter to tug around.
why "short of"?
that's an excellent way to go, worked for me
basically the same size as the dually idea, but individual cabs wins ergonomically, both because i can lift one at a time and can use just one for smaller gigs, but also because it allows for the TB-approved tall & skinny stack, which really does improve the sound. they were also well under $300 each unloaded, and not overly heavy.
don made them tuned for the emi kappa A drivers which i already had, and they crush; pushed with half a plx 3002 (so 900w @ 4Ω) they'll fill the room like a blob monster in a steve mqueen movie.
Sorry for that misunderstanding.. I meant I was kind of looking for something pre-made, and I know that LDS would custom make one..
right, my point was just that it wouldn't necessarily be easier or cheaper than getting something from don.
