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Any Rules For Mixing Cabinets?

#83
Gravedigger Dav said:
I'll bet that was a bit of culture shock.
I've lived all over, about 50% Texas where the family has been since the mid 1800s. Haven't spent a lot of time in Kentucky, but most of what I've seen is pretty.
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It is a spectacularly beautiful place, and I love my 160 mile round trip to Louisville every day.

However, many parts are like a third world country. Part of it is the dry counties are killing them. Those are going away, but it's a slow process.

There are two REALLY dumb things the US did, and Kentucky still has both:
1. Prohibition
2. School busing

Also, the reason we have so many people living on disability here is that the cost of living is so low that you CAN live on disability - so people try to get it.
 
#87
Robroy said:
Who does metal any more?

:D
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This guy.

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But he's not mixing cabinets...
 
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#90
Gravedigger Dav said:
My physic abilities tell me you were/are in aerospace.
I'm in far north Fort Worth. You would have known it as Keller then.
In 1962, I graduated from High School in Portland and went to Navy boot camp in San Diego. I was there when Kennedy faced down Russia.
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I was in Vallejo when Kennedy was shot. My father worked on the nuclear subs at Mare Island.
I'm 62. My father worked on the analog computers on B-52 tail guns and also on the electronics of nuclear missiles (most of them in land based silos). He contracted, which is why we lived in so many places between 1960 and 1968.

My only brush with aerospace was as a COBOL programmer in the early 80's at Boeing for parts planning for the Air Launched Cruise Missile.
 
#93
The only rule for Mixing Cabs is to NEVER talk about it on this forum unless you're a fan of annoying and condescending remarks with a ratio of 9:1 to helpful comments. Do what works for you and sounds right, the rest is nitpicking to please people who think they are better than you. They're not.

That is not to say that there is not a science to why mixed cabs SHOULD not work; there is. And yet millions of people each year for many years (and many more to come) mix cabs every day and the world still hasn't imploded.

Seems like you should just do what works for you and ultimately pleases your ear.
 
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#94
Hah! read the title and thought "well, 'don't.' is the right answer".

I've read enough of these threads and experienced enough mediocre to amazing rigs to agree with the cab police. Identical cabs is the only true path to predictably good tone.

I wonder what funny little arguements between strangers I'm missing out on by not reading this thread...
 
#97
Mike SS said:
I have always used combo amps, so I am not too informed when it comes to stacks.
I recently acquired a Crate BT350 head for my 15 year old son, and picked up a near new GK BLX 4X10. It's an 8 ohm cab so his amp is putting out 200 watts. Adding a second 8 ohm cab will give him 350 watts, and a 4 ohm load, according to the manual I scrounged. Now I have read on a recent thread that if you mix cabinets with different speaker configurations, like a 2X10 and a 4X10, the 2X10 will end up getting more power directed to it. Would this also be the case if I made his second cab a 1X15? Would it be easier/better to just get a single 4 ohm cab to maximize his amp output? I was kind of hoping to mix a 8 ohm 2X10 and a 8 ohm 4X10 as a stack and this would also give him the option of using one, or both of the cabinets depending on gig requirements.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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i personally use 1x15 and a 4x10 but that my recording rig sounds great together
 

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