Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
A Just For Fun Thread - "Coolest looking cabs\stacks"
- Thread starter calypsocoral302
- Start date
There was a local instrumental doom duo in Michigan called "Beast in the Field" and their guitarist/bassist (he played a custom instrument that sounded a lot like a modern Fender Bass VI) had built over a dozen custom 4x12 "scoop" cabs, and powered them with a combination of Marshall heads and SVTs…usually at least 3 of each…in a small club.
It was a visceral experience - low end loud and intense enough that it'd make your vision blurry.
It was a visceral experience - low end loud and intense enough that it'd make your vision blurry.
Attachments
I used to play with a guitarist who owned two of those white bassmans, they sounded great cranked for guitar, this was in a loud rockabilly/blues/rock n roll band, I was playing upright through an SVT with two cabs most of the time and the bassman kept right up with it.
There was a band called Buck in Massachusetts during the late 70's in which the bassist/vocalist used two SVT heads with 4 cabinets, the guitarist used two hundred watt Marshall heads with one 412 Marshall cab each, they were a great band. I never thought they were too loud but I knew he soundman and he had the longest snake I had ever seen (oldtimers will remember snakes), he used to get as far away from the band as possible, like around corners up another level etc.
It doesn't sound like Buck would have even approached the band you knew about though.
Back in the late 60's when I was a teenager I would go to dances and watch a guy playing a p-bass through a Standel amp much like this one. These were around 175 watts solid state with 2 JBL D140's and they were loud loud loud. He never had any trouble keeping up with the loudest guitars or drummers. A 2x15 combo.......lol
Traynor YBA-3 with 8x10 cabinet.
I used one of these on tour back in the early 70's. It sounded great and was loud enough to hang with a Marshall 50 watt with 8x12's and a very loud drummer but, sadly didn't hold up very well. It spent more time in the shop than it did on stage.
I used one of these on tour back in the early 70's. It sounded great and was loud enough to hang with a Marshall 50 watt with 8x12's and a very loud drummer but, sadly didn't hold up very well. It spent more time in the shop than it did on stage.
Turns out they were 1 superfluous tuner away from escaping obscurity.I'm still shaking with rage, but it is fading now that you have explained yourself.
Also, someone else has already pointed out that some obscure bassist from a band called The Who seems to have two in his rig.
Never heard of them. Probably because they use outrageous gear on stage.
One more.
Peavey MK IV head with 1820 (1x18 & 2x10's) cabinet.
These were pretty popular back in the 80's. Very rugged but heavy.
Peavey MK IV head with 1820 (1x18 & 2x10's) cabinet.
These were pretty popular back in the 80's. Very rugged but heavy.
I think you mean Quadrohernia, which is ultimately what did for John, after he tried to singlehandedly move his stack.
The very 1st real bass amp I owned was a Sears Silvertone. It came from the Sears Roebuck catalog in the late 60's. 6x10 Jensons, 150 watt solid state amp.
Passinwind
I know nothing.
- Dec 3, 2003
- 23,086
- 46,057
- Disclosures
- Designer/Toaster Tech @ Passinwind Electronics
I had one of those cabs back in the late 70s, I ran it with a Kustom 200 head for both guitar and bass.
Actually did this a couple of times. Fun to hear, not to move.
Not as impressive as most, but I just put this small stack together yesterday.
Around 1984-85 that was my rig, but with an additional Peavey 118D (1x18") underneath it. So it fulfilled the Your Stack Must Be Taller Than You Are criteria quite nicely.
[edit: Now that I think about it, I can't remember whether my head was the MK IV or MK III.]
A friend used to have a SUNN 2000s cabinet that someone defaced by stencilling "J H Exp" all over it.
Amazing cab. Air from the port would blow out a lit match.
I always wanted one, settled for a 200s.
As far as looks go, these are right up there...
Yeah that one evokes my gag reflex too, but that's just my own personal OCD issue.
Really cramps your style if you have an old Acoustic, Sunn, or Marshall head without the matching cabinets.
At some point everybody seemed to line up on the "all bass cabinets should be 24 inches wide" bandwagon, which I guess let you use a rackmount head/rig and still have a little space on either side.
Analogeezer
With this rig the QSC power amp gets signal from the Orange slave out. With that it powers the 2x10 giving me volume control ver that cab. It ads punch to the overall rig sound.
