Sorry for asking what it mean SLM ...sorry cuz my English is not good please understand my poor english ...thank you
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Ampeg V4B Cab - Folded horn enclosure
- Thread starter Ripper75
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St. Louis Music, the previous owners of Ampeg before LOUD Technologies. Ampeg has had several owners...the founder Everett Hull, Unimusic, Selmer/Magnavox, MTI, SML, and now LOUD. Each company sourced their own speakers and each are slightly different from each other, although similar in many ways.
There was a guy around here who used two of them with an SVT head and a 4001 Rick, great sound, filled the room with nice easy bottom. I once rented a V4-B cab for an outside gig, i think I used a borrowed B-25B head with it, it sounded great and was very efficient. I always though that they sounded fairly good close up for a folded horn cab.
7027A's are still available, I forgot who makes them but it's one of the Russian companies, it's JJ (Tesla).
I've got two of them and have usually used one cab only for years now with SVT heads and they still have all the original speakers.
They made them a while ago, I remember seeing one at GC probably at least 15 years ago.
JJ in Slovakia and sovtek/new sensor in Russia. Haven't had good luck with JJ tubes in general and the sovtek 7027As in particular so I stick to NOS in my V4, but I've also heard good things about the 7581A reissues from new sensor.
I used to not have good luck with JJ's but recently I have, at least their more common tubes. Don't have any amps with 7027a's in them, though. Got one with 12dw7's in it, and the JJ's were crap last time I had them. But that was 6 or 7 years ago and I wasn't happy with any JJ's I got back then. I'd be willing to chance them again, I suppose.
I think I have JJ 12DW7's in my SVT's and they've been in for quite a while, at least 5 years and I've had no problems with them, I'm not sure but I think they were the first ones to reissue them (?). I really like the Tungsol reissue 6550's.
Ampeg made 2 or 3 of those for the Monsters of Rock tour about 20 (?) years ago. was made from 4 cabs and two heads, for a total of 600 watts and 32 speakers, haha!
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That's encouraging to hear. I had two and neither lasted me over a year. Got these in 2008, though...maybe they're better now.
I'm not sure when I bought them but it was awhile ago, I want to say even longer back.
I remember in the mid to late 70s using an Ampeg V4B head and an Ampeg folded horn cab. Back then a solid heavy bottom end was needed for Tower of Power style nightclub music. The V4B and cab provided such an incredible bottom end, the club was filled with my bass tone.
Something that irks me that is an urban myth to me. Everyone says these cabs don't sound good until you get 20 feet away from them. Baloney! I played on some small stages back then and I had NO PROBLEM hearing my folded horn. Yes, there was no big horn on top for thumb whacking but back then the tone was great enough for providing steady, thumping bottom for dance music. And I heard mine just fine!
Long live the Ampeg Folded Horn!
Something that irks me that is an urban myth to me. Everyone says these cabs don't sound good until you get 20 feet away from them. Baloney! I played on some small stages back then and I had NO PROBLEM hearing my folded horn. Yes, there was no big horn on top for thumb whacking but back then the tone was great enough for providing steady, thumping bottom for dance music. And I heard mine just fine!
Long live the Ampeg Folded Horn!
Ya, that's all a myth anyway based on a misinterpration of what's really happening.I remember in the mid to late 70s using an Ampeg V4B head and an Ampeg folded horn cab. Back then a solid heavy bottom end was needed for Tower of Power style nightclub music. The V4B and cab provided such an incredible bottom end, the club was filled with my bass tone.
Something that irks me that is an urban myth to me. Everyone says these cabs don't sound good until you get 20 feet away from them. Baloney! I played on some small stages back then and I had NO PROBLEM hearing my folded horn. Yes, there was no big horn on top for thumb whacking but back then the tone was great enough for providing steady, thumping bottom for dance music. And I heard mine just fine!
Long live the Ampeg Folded Horn!
I remember in the mid to late 70s using an Ampeg V4B head and an Ampeg folded horn cab. Back then a solid heavy bottom end was needed for Tower of Power style nightclub music. The V4B and cab provided such an incredible bottom end, the club was filled with my bass tone.
Something that irks me that is an urban myth to me. Everyone says these cabs don't sound good until you get 20 feet away from them. Baloney! I played on some small stages back then and I had NO PROBLEM hearing my folded horn. Yes, there was no big horn on top for thumb whacking but back then the tone was great enough for providing steady, thumping bottom for dance music. And I heard mine just fine!
Long live the Ampeg Folded Horn!
I've only played through them a few times I but I always thought they sounded great close and far, now the Acoustic 360 was another story, course I'd like to try one nowadays and see whether it was me or the amp or a combination of both.
I've got a 370/301 rig. I can hear it just fine up close, but it doesn't really start to rearrange your internal organs with the really low stuff until about 15-20 feet out.
