8x15 Can't Wait

[Grooveman1961]

Back in the day, a guy named Pat Quilter built and marketed a cab called the Big Bertha.

4 x 15 cab, altec 421a's if I remember. Mr. Quilter went on to eventually form QSC.

As a side note: It would be interesting to know how many eminence 3015's it would take to match the displacement of those 8 421's. 2, maybe 3?

 

[barebones]

...I better not see it on the Classifieds three weeks later though...

FS: Homemade 8x15. Cheap! Will ship for a flat $8000. (Cont. U.S. only. AK, HI, and Canada may be slightly more.)

 

[Joe Louvar]

Peavey use to make 415subs - years ago I use to own a pair of Peavey 3020HT’s with the matching pair of Peavey 415 subs - and they rocked. They were heavy too - I don't think I'd want to move a 815.

 

[Primakurtz]

Name it Ozymandias. Perfect for all-night desert shows, a la Kyuss.

Then, put wheels on it and drive it to the next Burning Man.
Why? Because you can!

 

[s_mcsleazy]

McSleazy for the win!.KO

sig'n

 

[barebones]

Name it Ozymandias. Perfect for all-night desert shows, a la Kyuss.

Then, put wheels on it and drive it to the next Burning Man.
Why? Because you can!

Yes! Name win! From one of my favorite poems many years ago in my college days:

"My name is OZYMANDIAS, King of Kings.
Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!"

 

[billfitzmaurice]

Yes! Name win! From one of my favorite poems many years ago in my college days:

"My name is OZYMANDIAS, King of Kings.
Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!"

And in the end an 8x15 would likely share his fate.

 

[mc_muench]

I once had a dream for 4, 2x15's...I was gonna call it the WALL OF FUZZ, as far as I got was 2 2x15's before I realized there was no need for 2 of them let alone 4. But good luck with your dream.

 

[thombo]

you could use a van as a cabinet, just drive it up on stage, transportation issue solved!

 

[Korladis]

For those saying that it's impractical... yes, it is, obviously.

Think about it for a second. The OP is planning on building an 8x15.

Do you really think he's all that concerned by practicality? I would say it's pretty clear that he doesn't give a damn about how practical it is. I mean, just a hunch, based on the fact that he's even considering building an 8x15. People who care about the practicality of a bass rig, generally speaking, don't think to themselves "Hmmm, I should build a single cab with eight 15" speakers." And if they do, they generally don't go forward with the idea, deciding "Yes, I am actually going to build this gigantic cab." That he's even considered and then decided on building an 8x15 kinda seems to indicate that practicality has already been considered and dismissed as a concern.

Kinda reminds me of rbonner's rig. Ludicrously impractical, but also completely awesome.

 

[mc_muench]

Sunn also made a 4x15, which I will eternally search for...except they put them in a V sort of pattern.

 

[dhomer]

Just from a design/engineering standpoint this is incredibly impractical and failure-prone. to build such a cab strong enough to do what it needs to do you would need a massive internal framework. If you did this, you had better decide on where its gonna sit, because it ain't getting moved.. If you REALLY want 8-15's the only somewhat practical way is individual cabs..

 

[irishmonster100]

do an isobaric job on it like the cabs that orange have been doing lately
if you follow through i will travel from ireland to see it in action

 

[basscooker]

This made me laugh so much. Thanks for that.

what he said.

 

[Joe Louvar]

Sunn also made a 4x15, which I will eternally search for...except they put them in a V sort of pattern.

If you're looking for a 415 the Marshall1979L6 is a 415 bass speaker too.

 

[s_mcsleazy]

speaking of the sunn 4x15 i think one of the bass players in the black eyes had one. or a simalar cab he used in the studio.

 

[barebones]

And in the end an 8x15 would likely share his fate.

Well, I didn't want to bum the OP out, but, since you brought it up, I'll continue!

"Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

 

[Joe Louvar]

I wonder what drivers are in the Sunn 415 - JBL K140s?

 

[rjmsteel]

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.

Perhaps an Overhead Crane (rental) for stage placement would work...

 

[basscooker]

seriously, tho. what sort of force would that baffle be facing with something like this at high spl? i remember seeing mythbusters test the car window myth. they popped out the weather stripping on a mercedes sel (not a cheap or cheaply built car) with 120 db (yeah, it was at 16hz, but still). for real how huge would this thing have to be? my best guess-- minimum 60 cubic feet, vented. i'm in northern KY so i might have to try and see this thing with my own bass---i mean eyes. pm me when you're done!!!!!