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Baer Amplification Megathread!

#1,081
Chef said:
Having gigged my personal Baers now (I had a pair for BassGear for a while), I can say:
I missed horns for a while. I kinda don't now.


Despite the fact that I have two GK112's I like very well, a 12/6/1+12sub rig I like fairly well, and 2xTC115's I really like; I have new best friends.

That may change, but I know what I'll be packing to work most regularly right now.
Fat, but not blubbery, and you can eq in more or less beef readily.
Punchy as heck.
Super articulate.
Great mids; smooth, but barky and present as well.
Treble response that really doesn't leave me missing a horn; especially the more I use them and acclimate to their treble delivery.
Light, and easy to move.
And: these cabs take a little grit/grind/OD from the Walkabout/1001/MBFusion, and do nice things to it.

Well done sir, well done.
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Thanks for the comments, Chef. I think you are hitting exactly on what we are trying to do here, which is to get your articulation from a well defined and present upper mid response and a top end that extends out to the useful top end of our instrument, but not out further into the upper treble response.

Admittedly, it does take a while to retrain your ear to the way that these cabs present your top end. While it's natural to initially focus on one what part of the frequency range the mid drivers don't recreate, your ears soon begin to focus on the new way in which your top end presents itself within the mix of your band. Even a lot of the slappers using the cabs are finding that although the upper end sparkle isn't all there, their top end now has a punch and weight to it that wasn't there before and it seems to work for them.
 
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#1,083
EscapeNote said:
Hey Roger - when you say "gentle low end roll off" are you referring specifically to HPF? 30 hz and below type of thing?
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Yes, the amp has a HPF for sub sonic stuff, but we probably go about it differently than most companies. Then again, we probably went about most of the circuitry in this amp from a slightly different angle, so it fits in with everything else.
 
#1,086
DLM said:
I played an outdoor gig and was later told by the soundman that he didn't have me in the FOH. What you hear is straight through...jazz-style 'A' bass-->Markbass SD1200-->Baer ML-112 stack.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPdF6TqZp74
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Nice. I'm still really impressed with the amount of highs for a tweeterless cab.

Also, that open E sounds glorious. :bassist:
 
#1,090
Interesting thing happened the other day:

I replaced my Hi Beams, which I only recently started to try, with Roto 77's, which I used to love and use for years. Through the ML's, did not sound like what I remembered. My guess is my old cab scooped those unpleasant upper mids out (very likely talking out of my butt here, but it sounds right). I can eq them back OK, but just hadn't expected the difference. First time I've heard a VERY notable difference with these.

Think I might have to try those Chromes...
 
#1,093
R Baer said:
Even a lot of the slappers using the cabs are finding that although the upper end sparkle isn't all there, their top end now has a punch and weight to it that wasn't there before and it seems to work for them.
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Count me in that crew!

This is the most satisfying slap tone I've ever had. With my earlier rigs, I was always trying to rein in the tweets--and in line with Roger's comment above, there's a nice fatness to the G and D string thumps now.

My signal chain: Carvin SB5000 strung with EB Cobalts, straight into an Aggie TH500 with the drive turned down (or sometimes a Mark Bass F500 with a small bump around 100 Hz), to a pair of ML112s.

Uh...and I'm waitin' on the release of the Valkerie. Just sayin', Roger...
 
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Oh and in reply to "strapgate" :p

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And I used short bolts per Roger's warning.
 
#1,098
Chef said:
Is there a specific reason 2x112 won't work for you?
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Wow, that was horrible. :D

Anyway, I actually have an Aguilar DB 112/DB 112NT stack right now that I use for all of my small-med gigs, in conjunction with an Aguilar TH500. It also doubles as my "home" rig, stationed in my basement music room when I get a few minutes alone to play loud or tweak my pedals, etc...

I have two regular gigs and recently dropped one gig that didn't play that much and picked up another gig where I'll be gigging a lot more than I was.

Here's my reasoning behind a single 212...

Reason #1... one cab is easier to deal with than two in my situation. Since I didn't want to make a ton of trips up and down my basement steps with my Aggie 112 stack and since I am ALL about 12's right now, I convinced my wife to let me get a single 212 cab to keep in the garage for easy transfer into my little pickup. One cab with casters, one speaker cable, stays in the garage most of the time... easy.

Reason #2... I wanted something different than what I already have. I was going to get an Aggie DB 212 since I LOVE the DB 112 stack so much, but... I kind of wanted something different, you know? From what I gather the DB 212 has a VERY similar sonic footprint as the DB 112 stack, and if I could get two different flavors of cabinets, but I still loved both sounds for different purposes, then that would be ideal. From what I can tell, the Baer cabs seem like they'll give me a rock solid second option, depending on what kind of mood I'm in.

Reason #3... the money. My wife is a CPA... so, gladly, she handles the finances. If it wasn't for her, I'd be screwed. That said, she gave me a fairly tight budget to work with and I'm just not certain I could budge her much on it. ±$300 doesn't seem like much to some... but, it was hard enough convincing her I needed another cab to begin with. I don't want to push it.
 

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