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AudioKinesis Cabs Part VI...
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It's a Hathor with a small rear firing speaker. Incredible design. If I could afford one I'd have one for sure. I imagine it to be everything I would want in a bass speaker.
I have a Changeling 112 Tall coming to me in just a few weeks.....Can't wait!
Here are some pics of the Changeling 112T from today's experiments.
-Next to my Subway 115
-Top view. Those 4 slots are the openings for the open mid chambers, part of why you can hear the mids anywhere. They just surround you instead of come straight at you. And the sunken handle makes this cab the easiest carry of any cab I've had.
-Rear view. You can see the rear mid and the 4 pluggable ports. I like them all open for bass.
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Changling:
There are also slots open on the sides for the mids...
I ran double bass>D800+>changling 112; and dang if that doesn't sound great with no preamp or eq or anything.
Just really nice.
Ports:
Personally I prefer only two open in back.
4 "is a little bottom heavy" for me.
You can eq that back tho.
There are also slots open on the sides for the mids...
I ran double bass>D800+>changling 112; and dang if that doesn't sound great with no preamp or eq or anything.
Just really nice.
Ports:
Personally I prefer only two open in back.
4 "is a little bottom heavy" for me.
You can eq that back tho.
Hey mmbongo, thanks for playing/recording/posting the guitar audio clips. Those sound like perfectly workable guitar tones to me. The crunchy rhythm sounds you did could be pretty killer punk-band crunch. Seemed like both the bridge and neck pickups came across well, and there were some cool midrangy gargly details in there where I could tell you were picking pretty hard close to the bridge. Cool.
With the Birdhaus I have compared to my actual guitar amp (Peavey Special 150; an open-back 1x12 that's pretty much a Bandit with 150 watts instead of 75), the Peavey is the more pants-flaptastic. That is a LOUD amp. I can get similar sounds with the Birdhaus, but it's noticeably less loud, even driven by a 210-watt SS power amp with an occasionally blinking clip/DDT light.
But that said, I think it would still be loud enough to gig on guitar with, maybe not in a metal band with crappy monitoring, but in a lot of band situations I think it would work fine. More watts-hungry than using a guitar amp with speaker and open-back cabinet...but the Faitals and their front-and-sides orientation still spreads the sound around nicely and they do sound good.
I'll see if I can record a few clips later onto my tablet or something and post them. The AudioKinesis guitar detour thread.
With the Birdhaus I have compared to my actual guitar amp (Peavey Special 150; an open-back 1x12 that's pretty much a Bandit with 150 watts instead of 75), the Peavey is the more pants-flaptastic. That is a LOUD amp. I can get similar sounds with the Birdhaus, but it's noticeably less loud, even driven by a 210-watt SS power amp with an occasionally blinking clip/DDT light.
But that said, I think it would still be loud enough to gig on guitar with, maybe not in a metal band with crappy monitoring, but in a lot of band situations I think it would work fine. More watts-hungry than using a guitar amp with speaker and open-back cabinet...but the Faitals and their front-and-sides orientation still spreads the sound around nicely and they do sound good.
I'll see if I can record a few clips later onto my tablet or something and post them. The AudioKinesis guitar detour thread.
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I had that actual cab right before mmbongo and it is a winner on all fronts (and backs). I also liked it with two ports open for most things. However, if you need it to fill a big venue where one cab would normally be out of its depth (pun intended), opening up the other two ports is helpful.
This is the T version which adds about 4 inches over the standard Hathor 1203 and probably gives it some extra speaking voice (probably by a couple dB) down low. The cab is amazing in how it is able to fill a space with a full bass tone - almost a surround sound type of effect. For me it was very noticeable playing with a more acoustic style group. And believe it or not it was also evident in a louder rock setting, especially to the drummer.
I liked it so much I ordered one right after I sent it to mmbongo and with like 10 bass cabs already, it had to be really impressive to get me to feel I needed another one. I could easily see this being an only cab for a bass player who covered a wide range of styles and venues and was able to have FOH support on large and/or outdoor gigs.
Nice! Any reason Duke couldn't screen those top openings? I'd be a little afraid of dropping foreign matter down them (perfectly Snark-sized, for instance).
Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing as I was looking at it. Mostly because it would look really cool like an old Marshall amp but I'm sure it would add to the cost. But if you were to drop something in there it wouldn't be a big deal to get it out.
Glad to hear it - that's not obvious from the picture. ...and if we're talking about a beer, well, a screen wouldn't do much anyway
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I found that the openings were a convenient place to loop my cord around and keep from pulling the amp off the cab...it has no side handles to loop a cord through. I went down through the top, out the side and back up into the head. If your amp is just the right size a right angle connector cable could work nicely as well.
Al Kraft's comments explain exactly why I've ordered one of these. I play a lot of 50 to 100 person, not overly loud indoor gigs (sometimes with very tight stage areas) ranging from almost-acoustic setups to full rock and roll. I'm thinking this cab will cover almost everything I do. (I'll just keep my EPI UL-410 in the storage room for when I need stupid loud....)
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...when the gig is over, if the amp hasn't had any sudden trips to the floor, I'd say you have a good solution!
Hey all- thanks for all of the responses! So I took my Changeling 112 to Sweetwater and tried the Darkglass microtubes 500, Aguilar TH500, and the Mesa Subway D800+. And the winner is.....
Mesa Subway D800+
It was ridiculously easy to get the tone I was looking for with both my Spector and my Krappy EUB. The guys at Sweetwater we're taken aback by the Changeling cab. Thanks again @DukeLeJeune !
Mesa Subway D800+
It was ridiculously easy to get the tone I was looking for with both my Spector and my Krappy EUB. The guys at Sweetwater we're taken aback by the Changeling cab. Thanks again @DukeLeJeune !
That's a good pairing - you can get most any tone you want out of it. Despite some of the Aguilar faithful's comments, you just can't really get the same sound out of the TH500, though that amp likely sounds great with the C1203 as long as you dig the TH thing. I haven't played through the DG head so I can't comment on that one.
If you like one cab, a pair will cover pretty much any gig you can throw at it along with the 800+. THough I continue to be impressed with how much room a single AK can handle.
That’s true, although it doesn’t hurt anything to cover them. You just might not hear the sound coming out of them as well.
