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Your exceptionally handsome feline friend has already decided; no birds in this Birdhaus!
Neat stuff!
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AudioKinesis Cabs Part VI...
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Your exceptionally handsome feline friend has already decided; no birds in this Birdhaus!
Neat stuff!
=wr=
Passinwind
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My bandmates and the audience absolutely loved it on the one gig I took it to. I used my rowdiest bass and did lots of slide lead and slapping, sometimes pushing into distortion a little to try to leverage the tweeterless format. I did get carried away and bottom the speakers a little twice with hard slaps, but that only happened with stoopid EQ and 700 watts. A rational HPF setting would be your friend with these drivers, which I've heard about other implementations as well. The cab worked for my purposes exactly as I speculated: great for ambient/stereo duty along with the TC112AF, a little more "bass cab" vibe then the TC, quite loud for size and weight, and a form factor that took a little getting used to but ended up being fine. The lobing behavior seemed a little goofy at home (not many placement options in my tiny house), but on a gig it was awesome. I had a cajon player right next to the cab and he was loving the side firing driver. It's a tiny stage and I was mostly off to the other side, so again, worked out well. Not as much "pillow" as the Thunderchild for electric upright, so for me it'd function better as an adjunct than a replacement for the TC cab. Mo' flavors are mo' bettah as far as I'm concerned.
Downsides? Those are pretty expensive drivers, but I guess the lack of a crossover may mitigate that. The form factor made me want front or side porting a little, but on a bigger stage I wouldn't care. If you could get some port energy forward a little or fill in the blanks with 3s or 4s a la Hathor I think that could be a cool option. Not sure if you've found any suitable 10s for this format, but I think that might be the sweetest spot of all if so.
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With a cat that big, it'd have to be the 4x15 that got called 'the Cathaus'!Hi Passinwind and Marial,
Yes you guys can go ahead and post your impressions on the Birdhaus 48 here. Please be brutal in your criticisms, just as you would be in a private e-mail. I will refine the design if needed, or bag it altogether if it has some fatal flaw. I'm particularly interested in whether it work well for your fellow bandmates.
Thanks!
A picture being worth 1.0k words, here's a shot of the original prototype 4x6 cab in the Birdhaus configuration (so named because if the cab had sucked, I'd have repurposed it as a bird house, or at least tried to):
The fourth 6 is on the other side, opposite the one you see.
The idea for that cab was, maintain pretty much the same spectral balance off to the sides for acoustic jam sessions (wherein your audience is the other musicians) and/or coffeehouse gigs. My beta-tester bought that cab, so I guess he liked it. The 4x8 mentioned on this page is a scaled-up version. I also have a 4x15 version out there, as I wanted to see whether it was practical to scale it up quite a bit.
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What does "needing one" have to do with anything?
yeah . . . well. i have four of duke's cabs. somehow wanted to come with an excuse to "try" (um, buy) a hathor 15 and now this.
i'm not sure it does have to do with "need" . . .
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I've lost track of the number of gigs with the H1203 - couple dozen at this point? I continue to be amazed by the cabinet. I've only put the TC112 below it for a couple of Steely Jam shows (loud 10 piece band). Everything else, indoors or outdoors, I've been just using a single H1203 and can always be heard. It pairs perfectly with a Puma 500 head. Monique sounds great as well.
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Has anyone tried running acoustic guitar through a 1203?
I love the way my TC112 works as an all-rounder. With a small mixer connected straight to the power stage of my bass heads, it has been pressed into duty as a keyboard monitor, acoustic guitar amp, and even as a mini-PA.
Still, the low price, smaller form factor, lower weight and top port on the Hathor intrigue me...
Has anyone tried running acoustic guitar through a 1203?
I love the way my TC112 works as an all-rounder. With a small mixer connected straight to the power stage of my bass heads, it has been pressed into duty as a keyboard monitor, acoustic guitar amp, and even as a mini-PA.
Still, the low price, smaller form factor, lower weight and top port on the Hathor intrigue me...
If you see my first pic, the guitar is mine and I was doubling that night. Sounded great through the H1203.
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recorder out in the house, two acoustic guitars (I'm playing the main finger style backing), no FOH.
I know you're before me, Jeff. Great to hear that Duke's building again!
