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8x15 Can't Wait

#201
billfitzmaurice said:
We allowed acts to run to 115dB at the FOH, 125 feet out from the stage. Any idiot who couldn't live within that restriction not only belonged in jail, he belonged in an insane asylum. I also cruised the area covered by the remote far field stacks, where the FOH engineers couldn't hear them. More often than not I had to tell them to turn those up. And one of the worst sounding shows ever was 'Boston'. Tom is a nut about vocals being on top, so he won't let his FOH guy go higher than 100dB lest the vocals get buried, in his estimation anyway. I couldn't get him to turn it up to a nice comfortable 105dB.

I just checked my RTA files, when Matthews played for us they ran 105-110dB. If Tampa has a problem it's because they won't spend the $ to sufficiently isolate themselves from the neighbors. It can be done.
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I saw Boston at the Alamodome in San Antonio, had to be about 15 years ago. Don't remember it being that out of balance. Actually was one of the better sounding arena shows I'd been to. Our seats were close enough in to see pretty well but pretty far off sideways to the stage. Maybe in a different spot, it was more that way, don't know.

Saw Page and Plant at the same place, horrible sound, couldn't tell what was going on half the time. Not due to volume but just a horrible mix. One of the worst I'd been to.
 
#205
Johnny Crab said:
Should just get 4 2x15 cabs and stack them.
For small clubs, just stack 2 of them vertically....
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Really, this would be my vote too. Heck it IS my vote, I can't imagine my Sunn 2x15s being combined into one box. It'd be roughly 50"x48"x15"! I'm all for ludicrously big rigs, but 4x15s even to me are a little nutty, unless they're arranged like Emperor's 4x15 (ala a big 4x12).
 
#210
3 of the 2x15s are on my side and 1 is on my guitarist's side
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#214
Doesn't Marshall make a 4x15 cab for the Lemmy Kilmster signature edition? Also didn't Trace Elliot make 4x15? Maby you should either buy one of those and stack two of them or base your design of one of those. But if you build something you should call it and uber bass amp, like put uber on the cab grill and put those little dots over the u.
 
#215
punk rock. We could get away with way less. But if the stage is big enough why not? That venue they didnt even run my bass through the pa. The 4 2x15s were enough to fill that huge venue. Heres a link to reverb if you want to check it out. The cd was recorded with a black russian big muff carvin r600 and a single 2x15 and a p bass... Invalid Link Removed
 

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