Are you a Tweeter Lover?

[Keger Jupit]

If I can't turn it off, I'll pull it out & disconnect it, then put it back in so I don't have a new port I didn't want.

 

[OzzyGreg]

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I have one in the fEARful cab I built, but really, I wish I hadn't bothered.
The only time I hear any real difference is when I'm playing alone at home.
In a band context I can't hear much difference at all to be honest.

 

[cmcbass]

I have two identical 4x10 cabs. The cab on top has the tweeter on full, the bottom cab's tweeter always is off.

 

[stigbeve]

My cab has this on the side. I have no idea where it's set at. lol

(this is a pic from the net. I will check it next time I go to the practice spot)

 

[chris_b]

I always put my tweeter full on.

If my bass or amp makes a sound that high I want the cab to reproduce it.

 

[999Brent]

The poll lacks a "my cab has no tweeter" option.

That would be a carrots, what's a tweeter?

 

[2112]

All my cabs have them, and I turn them on as I need them. But I absolutely detest string noise, so I almost never run them wide open.

 

[Riff Ranger]

Depends on where the crossover splits the frequencies & what type of driver it is.
Horn tweeters are ok, but I have to suffice with them, because I play with some much O/D I'd blow a piezo tweeter in seconds, & I don't mean figuratively.

I usually use a pick and plenty of top end, but I too generally play with a ton of gain, and the only reason I don't turn my one tweeter completely off is that I can't. I have it turned down as far as it goes, but I really should look into just disconnecting it. Even when I used to favor a cleaner, solid state sound, I still didn't like the sound of a tweeter in my rig at that time. We're talking '90s Mesa and Ampeg gear here, so I don't doubt they're good for what they are, but I'd just assume do without them.

 

[Fender_Bender]

Nope, I'm not on social media.

 

[superheavyfunk]

Absolutely always off. I have plenty of treble content in my sound already... more than I usually want, in fact. Not only do I never, ever have my tweeter on, I also tend to turn the treble knob down a touch in the amp stack itself. Maybe if I played metal and had some ridiculous scooped EQ I'd feel differently. *shrug*

 

[GreyBeard]

My rumble 500 combo is either on or off so it is usually off. I'm hoping the Broughton H/LP filter I just got will let me trim it back to a tolerable level.

 

[Joedog]

boobies on a bull......

 

[bumperbass]

Mine's always off. I have a HPF, but wish I'd have bought a combo HPF-LPF pedal.

 

[andruca]

Very rarely I find a tweeter so clicky/hissy that I can't tame with EQ and have to turn it off for good. For clean fingerstyle tones I'm in for a horn. Not so much when overdriven and/or using a pick, very few tweeters seem to take that gracefully. I have a harder time dealing with sketchy crossover decisions (annoying hi-mid peaks -I've played a Stingray5 for almost 20 years and it really hates horns giving slack under 4khz-) than with a plain hissy/harsh speaker per se.

 

[Groove Doctor]

Bergantino tweeters sound really smooth, so I run mine set flat (no cut or boost).

 

[Riff Ranger]

Mine's always off. I have a HPF, but wish I'd have bought a combo HPF-LPF pedal.

I wonder whether I should disconnect the tweeter or take this approach. I don't spend a ton of time down there, but I do tune my 5th string as low as G sometimes, so I'd be setting a lower limit very low (if at all) to try and preserve some of that fundamental.

 

[Nephilymbass]

Interested in the use of Tweeters in bass cabinets, so thought I would run a poll, be interested to see what you all do...

I always use mine but I do often use the control on the back of the cab at like 10-11 o'clock so rolled back a little bit.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

Interested in the use of Tweeters in bass cabinets, so thought I would run a poll, be interested to see what you all do...

On my cabs you shouldn't turn them off completely or it will fry the L-Pad, so I have them barely cracked open at most. On general, with my EQ settings, I don'y really need a tweeter.

 

[zon6c-f]

No.

For the life of me (and this is after having more than a few very smart people explain it to me. . . .), I don't know why I need a bass guitar cabinet that goes to 18 or 20khz, and I've never heard of a bass guitar pickup package that's putting out any useable content up there. Of course, it's entirely possible I'm a complete dooofussss when it comes to this, but I still have never been presented with a practical reason that it's useful in the real world, not the world of scopes and measured responses. I'm more than happy to have hiss, line noise, and pickup anomalies trapped above the frequency response of most average cabs.

So if I want some extra high end, I'd prefer smaller cone-type speaker matched to the design.

I'm voting for You!

 

[Coot]

Always off..and then I put a foam plug and black tape over the little hissing buggers too..