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A Just For Fun Thread - "Coolest looking cabs\stacks"

#221
Analogeezer said:
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.

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Matching amp/cabs is nice… as is "any colour is available as long as it is black."

thus my love of the aesthetics of orange… and vox with their diamond pattern grills.

Another ocd thing that gets me is when the thickness of the plywood on the side of the cabs is not the same as the amp. And stacked cabs that are not the same width.

finally, class d amps are amazing… but big old tube amps on a matching cab cant be beat visually imho. Thus my liking the milkman tube/class d head.
 
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#223
Ampslut said:
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
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I've heard nothing but good things about those, I vaguely remember them but never tried one.
 
#224
claudel said:
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.

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As far as looks go, these are right up there...
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I owned two 2000S cabs and used them with a Marshall Major during the early 70s, a bartender in a club where we played a regular gig used to call us "The Big Wind" You could feel the air hitting you in your pant legs 20 ft in front of those things and I was a maniac back then I used to crank the Marshall up to about 8, I mean it vibrated tables walls etc. The Marshall was a very loud 200 watts and those things were very efficient. I actually pulled one of the voice coil wires out of one of the JBL's in the Sunns with that thing and I always used both cabs unless the place was really tiny. No pictures though.

I saw Led Zep in 1969 and they were using Transonic amps.
 
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#225
Love the way these look together after a trip to the powder coat shop.
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Hartke HA3500 with 2x10 XL and 1x15 XL
I actually have a rig like this covered up out in my shed. I just haven't had a need to use it but I will some day. These original aluminum speakers have a unique sound that you either love or well, not so much. But, they will cut through just about anything.

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#229
Analogeezer said:
Well my personal definition of a "stack" is at least two cabinets and some sort of rack/head.

A largish cabinet with just a head on top is not my definition of a "stack" IMHO.

You get extra cred points if your stack is taller than you are :)

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This is more my idea of a "stack" although technically I suppose you could call it a stack(s). :)

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Hmmm, that looks somewhat familiar! :D I seem to remember it in this form...
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#230
Rich Fiscus said:
Turns out they were 1 superfluous tuner away from escaping obscurity. :D
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Well I'm glad I didn't let on in my response I own a THIRD rack tuner :eek:

A Sabine RT-7100, that one started out in my "B room" studio at the other house and now is in my open control room at the new house.

Oh yeah, also own a Peterson Strobostomp HD and have owned a Boss TU-12H since like 1988.

Hate me if you like, but I like to play in tune :)

Way back when I was in a cover band with some rich kids (well they were all like 21 to 26 so not exactly kids but their dads were all rich so they had the best gear) and the two guitar players EACH had a Peterson Strobe tuner so I would just borrow theirs for a tune.

Later on I was in a band with a guitar player who owned a 2nd Gen (the black and silver one) Conn Strobe Tuner. IIRC those were like $350 back then so probably $1,200 today.

He played three guitars on stage (an Explorer, a custom Strat, and a Flying V) and at the time I was using three basses, including an 8 string. So yeah that Conn got a lot of use.

He actually had his GF (who he mooched off financially as she had a job) buy a custom Anvil case for the thing which was way cool, that way we could cart it to and from gigs without having to worry about it.

So my quest for being in tune goes back a long, long ways.... :)

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My 14 or 15 year old self couldn't afford gear, so I built it for Action Jackson and his band! His Ric 4001 was built from a scrap of paneling left over from when my dad and I finished our basement.

Some time later, I bought the Carvin head and the 2x15 SRO 15 loaded cabinet from my bass teacher. I borrowed his pair of SRO 15 loaded 1x15s for this photo taken in about 1976.
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Michedelic said:
Let's go out to my garage…
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But it's cold out there, so back to the kitchen…
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But if I could, you know I would…
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Michedelic said:
Let's go out to my garage…
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But it's cold out there, so back to the kitchen…
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But if I could, you know I would…
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The winner hands down!!!!! Who is that?
 

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