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AudioKinesis Cabs Part VI...
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I just got a Smoothie a few weeks ago off the Ovnilab site. He did a new run of them. I sold my Diamond after the Smoothie arrived. I felt like the Smoothie could do everything the Diamond could and more. Also, the Diamond didn't play well with my high output Spector. The Smoothie works great with all my basses:
I had a Diamond for a minute. And my experience is exactly the same.
I'm hanging around to see if anyone posts again about their experiences with the AK Birdhouse. Meanwhile it looks to be about compressors.
I've used bunches. They are all impractical one way or another I think. My fave is the half rack Urie Silverface LA4. Only thing impractical about it for gigs is the price, imo. I know there is a pedal clone out there..but for the price I'd just go for the real deal!
Another one that was interesting with a wide variety of sounds was the Carl Martin. For gigs, just to finicky. Most of the pedals seem to have pros or cons in different areas of use, and they all seem really good these days, a long way from the old Orange Squeeze or MXR Dyna comp.
The OVNI Labs page is awesome...go and pick yer poison.
I've used bunches. They are all impractical one way or another I think. My fave is the half rack Urie Silverface LA4. Only thing impractical about it for gigs is the price, imo. I know there is a pedal clone out there..but for the price I'd just go for the real deal!
Another one that was interesting with a wide variety of sounds was the Carl Martin. For gigs, just to finicky. Most of the pedals seem to have pros or cons in different areas of use, and they all seem really good these days, a long way from the old Orange Squeeze or MXR Dyna comp.
The OVNI Labs page is awesome...go and pick yer poison.
I gigged the snot out of a 46 Birdhaus with a three piece jazz combo.
Nice cabinet, slots well into a mix. A little dark sounding but full. Easy to hear at any angle. Super easy to transport. Perhaps the best cabinet on the planet for living room writing sessions with a guitarist at low volume.
Nice cabinet, slots well into a mix. A little dark sounding but full. Easy to hear at any angle. Super easy to transport. Perhaps the best cabinet on the planet for living room writing sessions with a guitarist at low volume.
I use the 46 for practice . It's a great sounding cab. Looking into getting the 48 from Duke.
FYI, if anyone is interested, I just listed one of my Hathor 1203's in the classifieds. I never use it since I always use my TC112 / 1203 combination, so I have decided to part with it.
Just curious , I have been a rock bassist for a long time and recently got signed on with a country artist.i have been using the Quilter bb800 with my homebuilt 15/5 . Actually Duke you helped quite a bit with the build. We've got some big gigs coming up ,night in the country and so on. I am seriously thinking of getting a Hathor 1203 for something smoother. How would it fit the bill.
I use a Hathor 1203 and the BB800 sounds great through it. ESPECIALLY my P-bass. I think it would be a killer tone for country. I haven't played in country band in a long time, but I am sure that would be a killer combination.
So, depends on the type of country. Works great for everything except for modern bro country where they have a lot of huge B-string notes and you'd want the next size up.
Perhaps the H series 15's would give you what your describing. A little bigger and louder?
man i gotta disagree. I did a country gig a few months ago with my hathor 112 and the low b was insanely huge. I had never had it that loud and was worried, but it ate those low C's for breakfast. If I need to crush it, I'll use my TC112 and Hathor together.
Similar experience here with my tc112 1203 stack. Passive PJ 5 string sounds great for this rig. I think it work well for country we do a few country songs and it works great. I think there are a few reports here that the 1203 may have a slight edge over the 15" when used with a 5 string
howdy, might be pertinent in that i used two hathor 1203s for this project (so i think you hear a lot of cabinet).
more auditory than musical, perhaps.
the idea behind this was to listen to the overtones of a 12-string bass (a 6-string bass tuned B-C with octave strings) as notes resonated against each other and decayed.
the method was to play live into two cabinets, which where then recored in to abelton live. effects are compression and reverb in abelton. no other effects were used.
more auditory than musical, perhaps.
the idea behind this was to listen to the overtones of a 12-string bass (a 6-string bass tuned B-C with octave strings) as notes resonated against each other and decayed.
the method was to play live into two cabinets, which where then recored in to abelton live. effects are compression and reverb in abelton. no other effects were used.
I think that those reports referred either to an earlier or to a prototype version of the 15" Hathor cab, and that @DukeLeJeune tweaked the design subsequently. I'll let him confirm or correct this, though.
Hathor 212 should kill!
Mark, I recall the same. Here is what I read:
