Hey Duke
I was trying to be not-too-glowing as to not look like a paid advertisement! Actually I think that yours is BY FAR the best balance of frequency response and seamless blending of lows, mids and highs. To be honest, I don't know of any bass cabs with mids and tweets that sound as good to my ears. Interestingly, as we had spoken, I plugged one port to lower the cab tuning. I thought that the "bloom" of the notes suffered as opposed to both open. With both open there was no "bloat" and perfect control but with a wonderful bloom and thickness to the notes. One closed and the cab still sounded great, and with a little more control, but the individual notes were tighter and thinner. I've talked about this phenomena lots here as a property that seems to elude measurements, but now in speakers I think I'm getting more of a theoretical handle on. Now I'm just a theoretical dummy so correct me if I'm wrong. It seems to me that there is a perfect "sweet spot" in terms of port area that allows the speaker to move with the perfect amount of control. Too big and it sounds uncontrolled and bloated, too small and the notes can sound too tight and controlled. I think Duke nailed it. I play 50/50 between upright and electric and I think that upright is MUCH harder to get right in terms of the envelope as I've been mentioning. Before my surgery on the 28th I did a recording for NPR with my own trio for a special type of state of the art binaural recording. Loud trio. Upright, drums and SCREAMING guitar. Loud. My bass with the TC had almost perfect impact---rare on studio recordings and unheard of on 2 mic audiophile recordings. And my sound was more like a fine miked studio sound---but it was a Full Circle, Doubler and the TC. No Jaco mids. No artificially glassy highs. Everybody was flabbergasted. Sounded like me on a good day in the studio.
So Duke---you were asking what cab I was referring to and I have to say I haven't heard anything better. Louder----sure. Deeper---maybe---if you want to haul something twice the size. My buddy Dan was the owner and developer with Lakland. Everybody sent him their cabs.Or he'd buy them. I'd spend hours there goofing off and trying various amps and cabs. I know what's out there.
One word to everyone here. If you play upright or 5 string electric you must get a high pass filter to really see what this cab is capable of. With the piezo pickups for upright there is a ton of subsonic garbage in the signal. This just causes your amp and speaker to huff and puff and uses all of your resources to amplify crap that you don't want anyway. Even with electric the fundamentals of the B string you don't want anyway. NO commercial speaker that I know of does 30 hz. And what you're hearing in a deep amplified B string is mostly 60 hz anyhow.So if you have a high pass filter properly tuned, you'll wind up using half (or less) the power as previously. Which is why I tried plugging one port to drop the cab tuning. I'm researching a very small DSP suggested by another techno-guru TB member Passinwind. It would give a variable high-pass filter as well as MANY bands of parametric eq and much more.All in a small floor pedal. With a proper high pass, I don't know of ANY cab that sounds better. What we're paid to do as bassists is to pump out quarter notes (or whatever) that have power, authority and control. In terms of function, the rest is icing on the cake. And the TC has the perfect balance of these 3.
Anyway enough of my blathering----must be the copius amount of pain meds!
