I have been gigging my TC112 for a couple of weeks now and just want to throw in my appreciation of what Duke has created here. I played a doubling gig at the Jazz Kitchen in Indy last weekend and was beyond thrilled with the tone I was getting from my upright, noting that I do not have an AF version. My electric was focused and giving me enough bark to satisfy my non-hifi jones as well. I have found that the cab is able to take the more robust wattage of my GB ShuttleMax 9.2 as my EA Doubler was struggling to push the amp as it should. That is definitely more of an EA issue than anything else. Looking forward to continuing my review process.
Glad to hear it works for upright as well! Theory said it should, but you're the first person to try the new wider-in-the-vertical horn with an upright.
To give context here, Scopaz got the first TC112v2 in 4 ohms, and that's his cab you see on the left in the photo in post number
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IMO/IME, this is one of Duke's greatest accomplishments with the Thunderchild family. When I replaced my Bose L1 with a TC112AF, it took over as my primary solution for everything I do in small to medium-sized rooms: electric bass, acoustic guitar and vocals, electric guitar modelling, keyboards, and more.
As "universal musical instrument cabs", they have much in common with Anthony Jackson's enormous Martin bins:
- They cover the full range of nearly anything you can put through them, from extended-range basses to mandolin.
- The lack of peaks and dips in the frequency response makes them perfect for hard-to-amplify instruments.
- Impressive power handling allows massive EQ, making them scalable for an absurdly wide range of gigs and venues.
- The dispersion is about as close as a conventional cab can get to a Bose column. This is a great help on crowded stages and in badly-shaped rooms.
Best of all, you get this kind of performance out of a range of cabs that sit comfortably close to the $1K mark, and they are all small and light enough to travel on the subway.
Unbelievable.
Wow, thank you! I think I just found my new ad copy!
Must admit that I'm unduly proud of my little cab being able to fill the universal shoes of the Bose L1 system. The Thunderchild series cabs are sort of like small-scale PA cabs with enough woofer excursion to survive being used as bass cabs. They're not the solution for everyone, but I'm really glad that they were the solution for you!
Also, I've seen Anthony Jackson's rig refererenced before, but really didn't understand what I was reading - if my cabs are conceptually along the same lines (albeit scaled back in size), now I get it. Thanks for the information, as that saves me from having to publicly display my ignorance by asking about it.
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The Hathor arrive yet?
It's on a cross-country Fed Ex truck, so he hasn't gotten it yet. Took me longer than expected... that never happens, right??
Even the largest of the family (the 212) is smaller than a stacked pair of conventional 12's (footprint is 14.5" square), and weighs less than 50lb in wood. If you can find one of the Arnopol composite builds, that drops to only 35lb!
You'd think my goal was to shoehorn a lot of cab into a small footprint, and that's partially true. But more precisely, the goal was to shoehorn as much cab as I could into a standard 36" x 16" x 16" double-walled cardboard shipping box, with room for a bit of padding!
Credit for anything the Thunderchild cabs have done well, as far as power-to-weight ratio or power-to-size ratio, goes to engineer Jerry McNutt of Eminence. He is the one who designed the stock Kappalites as well as the custom versions I've used in my 4-ohm single-woofer cabs.
