anybody using four 1x15" cabinets stacked vertically as their main rig?

[Robroy]

I have an old Acoustic Control Corp 408 cab which is the most compact vertical 4X15" you can get.
Two of the drivers face each other into a slot port, an odd arrangement but it sounds very good and seems to handle very low frequency surprisingly well, so I left it actively doing only that in the end. crossed out at 125X
Left the mid and horns up to. JBL 2206h's and 2445's on 2380a horns.
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Meh. Is that all ya' got?!

 

[Mr. Foxen]

But how did it sound?

Loud.

 

[Robroy]

For a variety of reasons -- needing more output & wanting to get speakers up closer to my ear, but still desiring a modular rig & recognizing the value of a stacked columnar array -- I've been entertaining the idea of getting four 1x15" cabinets and stacking them vertically.

But I haven't quite wrapped my head around the scale/proportions of such a towering inferno. Anyone use this configuration regularly? Got any pics of your rig?

Thanks.

Just thinking out loud here. I'm guessing if you need that, I give you about five gigs before you are pretty much deaf. That's assuming no rehearsals in between.

 

[Mr. Foxen]

Mt 2x12s stay stacked vertical, but my 2x15s are usually crossfired in action.

 

[Deak]

Hello everyone. I've been lurking about a month and after 40 years, I'm diving head first back down this rabbit hole and loving every minute of it so far.
I have to say back in the day when I finally could afford decent gear I bought a Sunn 200 and two 2x15 JBLd140 loaded cabs. It was a sound and feel that soothed my soul. The height was just right. If I needed the low and loud I knew it had my back. Did I ever need all of it? Of course not, but at 24 years old I finally had one bad ass set up and it felt great.

Nice to meet you all and I already appreciate the volumes of great information and backgrounds that you share. The levity here can sure make me smile. Thank you.

 

[sprag]

3 SWR SOB 115's was the only way I rolled for quite a while. I'm 6ft and the top cab was around head height, could turn it down to a moderate lvl and hear it well up close and the other side of the stage

 

[RaunchMister]

Not to sound negative, but that would be impossible.

EDIT: Unless you are using 16 ohms speakers. Not even sure if they exist.

So if your bass amp has 2 power amps such as the Eden WT800 you can hook 2 8ohm cabs into each side and then stack them.. if you were to do this massive stack I would say get all the same cabs but switch some of the drivers out to get a better range. my 2 cents.. I play with 2 eden xlt115s

 

[BigBigGuy44]

Anyone else suddenly have the urge to buy 4 15's, and stereo power amp and Ric 4003?

 

[CRich0205]

It's awesome. Do it.

To clarify I don't have any of these anymore but I do have a V4B and an 810. Just to play at home.

 

[Munjibunga]

Not to sound negative, but that would be impossible.

EDIT: Unless you are using 16 ohms speakers. Not even sure if they exist.

If he had a 2-ohm capable amp, he could use four 8-ohm cabs.

 

[Munjibunga]

You could use a Bergantino B|Amp with four NV115s - that would be 8 feet to the top of the cabs. Awesome. (It'd also be five thousand bucks. Awesome.)

 

[ERIC31]

I'll bet Don at LDS would be too happy to build you 4- 15" cabs to run this!!

www.lowdownsound.com

 

[1bassplayinfool]

It can be done...

 

[Nephilymbass]

I've done one stack of 115 cabs stacked vertically.

Personally think think beyond a rig the size of a 412,810, or 215 it's time to get a better cab with better speakers not necessarily bigger or more. Because the bottom line is a 215 cab with $600 worth of speakers alone in it is gonna blow away 4 cheap 15s anyways. Hell I spent a few hundred dollars upgrading the speakers in my 410 and I'm feeling like an idiot when the soundguys ask me to lower my stage volume because I lugged around an 810 for a decade. Bigger isn't always better.
Better performance is better. But the thing with most production cabs is they are trying to build a product that makes a profit. The only cabs I've considered replacing my modded 410 with are greenboy cabs that cost over a grand each

 

[CL400Peavey]

Whatever...Too tall for me, and totally ridiculous. JMHO

After getting one LOOK at that rig, do you think the club owners will ask the band to turn down?

Not to be rude, but I don't think your your experience and knowledge carry much weight on this topic. You clearly dont "get it" on the loud music front. And that's OK. Different strokes and all.

I'm planning on running a 615 rig, 3x215s laid horizontally and stacked vertically. So yes...

Atta boy!

JMO but 2 15's is plenty even for the loudest show.

In the immortal words of swayze, opinions vary.

 

[funkinbottom]

This might work for ya.

 

[T_Bone_TL]

You might want pole mounts or something else to tie the stack together once stacked. I see the relative joy of 4 1X .vs. 2 2X on the transport side of the equation. And, of course, not stacking your amp on top out of reach...

 

[agedhorse]

4 Subway 15"s vertically would put the center of the top driver at a little less than 6' and can be driven by the Subway amp mom 2 ohm mode is on example of "not impossible".

There are plenty of others as well.

 

[AlexanderB]

Man this might be just me but I hate having drivers actually at ear level. An Ampeg fridge cabinet is only about 4 foot ball. A full Marshall 4x12" stack, the top cabinet would sit about 5'4" from the floor, and the cone of the top driver would probably be at about chest level for an adult male. What I'm getting at is that it's really unusual to have a speaker stack get all the way above your head. I've sat my combo amps on shelves that were chest level, bringing the drivers to about ear level and I hated the experience. It was sort of painful, honestly. I felt like I was afraid to dig in because the treble would make my ears explode. But I couldn't EQ the treble away either, because people do need to be able to hear what I'm doing.

To me, the ideal height for a speaker is such that the sound is hitting my instrument head on. That way, my instrument is achieving resonance with the drivers, and I get all that sustained goodness, but my ears don't have to get the full force of the speakers, but it's close enough to my ears that I hear myself very well. But when it's at my ear level, I feel like I start to play timid because the sound is hitting my ears as hard as it's hitting my strings, and I'm not taking full advantage. If you like 15s, and I do, I think 2x15" vertically is ideal. If you're gonna go 4x15", then go 2x2.

This is my experience, too. If I stack an Ampeg SVT-210HE on top of an SVT-410HLF, I get a stack similar in size to the SVT-810E. It sounds great, and it makes me want to turn up loud. But instead stacking two SVT-410HLFs makes for a 60" / 5' stack, and at that point I feel I get too much "paper cone mids" in my ears, and I have to "dig in" less not to be overwhelmed. I think the max SPL I can use is less from that 2x410 stack vs the regular 410 + 210 stack.

I am sure a vertical 415 stack would have a similar or even worse effect on me.

 

[spaz21387]

Mt 2x12s stay stacked vertical, but my 2x15s are usually crossfired in action.

Whats up with that coffin pedal board?