8x15 Can't Wait

[gmarcus]

And don't forget to include one tiny little tweeter.................with an on/off switch of course...........

 

[Pacman]

Moved to Amps.

 

[billfitzmaurice]

I'm voting for a vertical cab made up of 8 fifteens. (Bill Fitzmaurice is nodding sagely with this suggestion.)

No, he's shaking his head at the very thought of this ill conceived notion.

Catch 22: "I want to build an 8x15. I don't know how speakers work. How do I learn?"
"Once you learn how speakers work you'll know why you don't want to build an 8x15."

 

[father of fires]

I saw a band where the guitarist had 2 4x15 guitar cabs. It was massive.

Marshall makes a guitar style 4x15 for the Lemmy rig. So you could try 2 of those but they are ultra expensive

I remember a story where Pete Townshend had an 8x12 guitar cab and his roadies complained too much so they made him get 4x12's instead.

 

[Tractorr]

Make sure to use the 3015 LFs that way it will be like having 16 15s.

 

[CL400Peavey]

Make sure to use the 3015 LFs that way it will be like having 16 15s.

You would have terrible sound with 3015LF's on their own.

To the OP, just build a fEARful. Get more volume than you need, better sound than you will get with an 815 set up, and you will actually be able to move it yourself.

 

[Baird6869]

8x15" would be too big to transport IMO. Look at the pic above.... And those cabs do not have a huge footprint.

Be fun to have one for an early Sunday morning jazz gig at a Starbucks though.....

 

[will33]

Moved to Amps.

Was wondering why I hadn't seen this before......you wanna do it dude, go ahead, it's your money.

 

[kanonfodr]

Sub'd!

 

[YuppyPunk]

No, he's shaking his head at the very thought of this ill conceived notion.

Catch 22: "I want to build an 8x15. I don't know how speakers work. How do I learn?"
"Once you learn how speakers work you'll know why you don't want to build an 8x15."

Beyond the impracticality of moving an 815, can you explain why, from a technical perspective, why this is a bad idea?

 

[JimmyM]

Beyond the impracticality of moving an 815, can you explain why, from a technical perspective, why this is a bad idea?

I don't think the impracticality of moving an 815 can be overlooked!

Also, there are technical reasons why someone like Bill would think of an 815 rig as a bad idea for a bass rig, but there are a lot of great sounding bass rigs that don't make sense from a technical perspective, so while I totally get what he's saying, I also get the appeal of a giant bass cab with a lot of 15"s.

 

[sadasar]

A smart man would build it like a 4 sided / faced cab, with each face getting two speakers, vertically, and have it resemble the Tardis.

And with this configuration, it could be a front main, a side fill, another side fill, and a backstage fill. And, when pushed to eleven, it would rip open a hole in space-time, and bring back dead Presidents and Bill and Ted.

You win.

 

[billfitzmaurice]

Beyond the impracticality of moving an 815, can you explain why, from a technical perspective, why this is a bad idea?

For one thing the correct vertical form factor would make the cab at least ten feet high, which would present both set-up and transportation problems. But the main thing is that there's no reason to have that much output capacity. Once upon a time maybe, when 50 watt 1mm xmax drivers were the norm and good PA wasn't, but not today.

 

[keiththebassist]

I used to rock two separate peavey 2X15 cabinets and theory and practicality be damned, it was a pretty slamming rig.

 

[cataract]

Once you build it let us know so we can recommend a great 2x10 cab to pair it with.

This made me lol.. thanks for the coffee through the nose!

 

[chuck norriss]

You can put each 15 in its' own cabinet. This makes it easy to move and you can always add more speakers.

What. The. Cuss.

Awesome. Awesomer if it was one-piece.

Do you design an 8x15 to sit portrait or landscape? Or is this some kind of sick trolling? I'd like one cab with an 5" a 10" and a 15"

 

[Martin89]

Good luck on the build, I better not see it on the Classifieds three weeks later though because you're looking for something with more "punch" and end up with an 810 like all the rest of us normal guys...

 

[wcriley]

I'd like one cab with an 5" a 10" and a 15"

Skip the 10 and just use a 6 with either a 12 or 15 and a good crossover.

 

[NWB]

But the main thing is that there's no reason to have that much output capacity.

Very true for nearly any typical gig situation with a band, stage, crowd of people, etc.

Maybe though, the OP lives in BFE and wants to set his rig up on the back patio and entertain the cows down on the back 40? No need to consider practicality in that playing situation.

 

[jj4001]

Seriously, this would make it about the size of 2 SVT 8x10's attached side to side:
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Still a major pain to move, but for an 8x15, not too bad...