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Big Cabs Club
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How adorable.
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How 'bout my custom Faux-VOX Super Beatle/AC-100 cab?
1 x 15", 2 x 10", horn. The cab alone stands 40" tall. Made with 13-ply, 5/8" Baltic Birch. It weighs a LOT. Some day I'll get a trolley.
1 x 15", 2 x 10", horn. The cab alone stands 40" tall. Made with 13-ply, 5/8" Baltic Birch. It weighs a LOT. Some day I'll get a trolley.
Sorry guys my comments were a bit 'off on one'. Wasn't trying to troll and didn't look at the magnitude of how many posts there were - just started keying........ooops!
My own rig is 2x15 cabs, a compression driver cab, and head - four cabs about 50" high and 2 foot wide in total. Maybe my definition of small is a bit off?
Forgiven?
My own rig is 2x15 cabs, a compression driver cab, and head - four cabs about 50" high and 2 foot wide in total. Maybe my definition of small is a bit off?
Forgiven?
I think I'm going to have to dig up a camera to take a pic of my 240lb 4x10 just for this. As JEDI BASS mentioned, there's a certain exhilaration you can only get from playing a rig that can be used for arenas/amphitheaters without the need of PA support. May not be entirely practical... but it's pretty awesome.
Man that 215 is smokin' how does it sound? Do you know what kind of drivers those are?
And never try to obfuscate the brand of the gear you rock, here at BCC we are proud of what sounds good!
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Remember the more pictures the better!!
I loaded it with Altec 421A's, it came with JBL D140's. It sounds amazing with the Altecs. I had an ampeg cab that the previous owner sawed in half, distroyed the cab so I decided to make use of the logo
I guess he kept the bigger half?
Banned.for.life.
So, you have to carry three separate cabinets, with multiple trips to the car, hook them all up with various points of potential failure, when you could have just bought or built one cabinet with some nice wheels or a dolly cart.
Makes perfect sense.
Hah! My wife says I should be banned from Talkbass as well!
Done the big thing in single cab and big pair. Had to get a two wheeled sack truck to move them around but inset wheels would have done the job as well. Just found nobody wanted to help in the band and I was lugging these huge cabs for everyone elses benefit. So rebuilt them smaller and am putting much better drivers (3015s) in them so I can compensate for loss of bass efficiency with more wattage.
The two cabs thing is all about taking what you need - medium gig 1 cab huge gig 2 cabs and run at 4ohm instead of 8. Add a compression driver and crossover if more click needed at tight to crowd gig. And the two cabs with HF units are used as a PA when the bands outside. (I use a 4x10"s at earlevel for those gigs.
And the big cabs only just went in the car - no passengers -just gear to the roof.
Done the big thing in single cab and big pair. Had to get a two wheeled sack truck to move them around but inset wheels would have done the job as well. Just found nobody wanted to help in the band and I was lugging these huge cabs for everyone elses benefit. So rebuilt them smaller and am putting much better drivers (3015s) in them so I can compensate for loss of bass efficiency with more wattage.
The two cabs thing is all about taking what you need - medium gig 1 cab huge gig 2 cabs and run at 4ohm instead of 8. Add a compression driver and crossover if more click needed at tight to crowd gig. And the two cabs with HF units are used as a PA when the bands outside. (I use a 4x10"s at earlevel for those gigs.
And the big cabs only just went in the car - no passengers -just gear to the roof.
My GK4112 AKA "backbreaker". The two speakers on the front are 10" drivers highpassed with a cap to handle only mids/highs. Behind them are 4 square magnet 12" woofers. The whole mess is 4 ohms and loud as hell. It has that bass horn thing where you can hardly hear it right next to you but its killing people 20 feet away.
and the woefully inadequate handles on the back
No idea how much it weighs. Easily over 150 lbs. I only gig it if the load in is easy. No stairs, no landings.
and the woefully inadequate handles on the back
No idea how much it weighs. Easily over 150 lbs. I only gig it if the load in is easy. No stairs, no landings.
I just acquired a Mesa Boogie 2x15 built in a road case to go with my Mesa 400 purchased from sincity.
It is a monolith on wheels.
It is a monolith on wheels.
My GK4112 AKA "backbreaker". The two speakers on the front are 10" drivers highpassed with a cap to handle only mids/highs. Behind them are 4 square magnet 12" woofers. The whole mess is 4 ohms and loud as hell. It has that bass horn thing where you can hardly hear it right next to you but its killing people 20 feet away.
and the woefully inadequate handles on the back
No idea how much it weighs. Easily over 150 lbs. I only gig it if the load in is easy. No stairs, no landings.
holy crap awesome
That's an awesome bit of kit "Man-With-Big-Cranium" (Calaverasgrande?)
What a retro set up that is - straight from the 1980's scene. I bet it's kiiling them for further away than 20 feet mate. That beast must be so full of subs it must be like musical earthquakes when you play!
Condition of the box would help the ambience of my studio if it were mine. I'd rip that old tolex off and refinsh with coats of this new speaker paint that's out there now. That cabs a keeper if ever.
What a retro set up that is - straight from the 1980's scene. I bet it's kiiling them for further away than 20 feet mate. That beast must be so full of subs it must be like musical earthquakes when you play!
Condition of the box would help the ambience of my studio if it were mine. I'd rip that old tolex off and refinsh with coats of this new speaker paint that's out there now. That cabs a keeper if ever.
My GK4112 AKA "backbreaker". The two speakers on the front are 10" drivers highpassed with a cap to handle only mids/highs. Behind them are 4 square magnet 12" woofers. The whole mess is 4 ohms and loud as hell. It has that bass horn thing where you can hardly hear it right next to you but its killing people 20 feet away.
and the woefully inadequate handles on the back
No idea how much it weighs. Easily over 150 lbs. I only gig it if the load in is easy. No stairs, no landings.
I seriously want one. Are these easy to come by or no?
For you Ampeg-o -philes, can you tell which cab is the "NAM-PEG" 810 and which is the SLM in the above pic's?
Are you throwing out bait, searching for some haters? Cause I don't care where your cabs are built. I had both a Vietnam and a US 410hlf at the same time. The Nam cab's tolex wasn't applied as cleanly, and I bought the cab without knowing that production had moved overseas. I was NOT happy when I found out I'd paid more for an import then I'd paid for the US cab a year earlier.
Hella-cool rig though!!
No, I wasn't baiting or searching out haters as you say, I was just in a friendly way seeing if anyone can tell the difference. I can see why you and others are upset about Ampeg moving off shore. I actually like my "NAM-PEG" just as much, that's why I bought it. According to one avid on this forum, the newer Ampeg cabs are built with real wood as opposed to particle board like my SLM model. This may explain the slight but noticeable difference in sound between these 2 cabs that I own. I actually think the "NAM-PEG" cab sounds slightly brighter than my SLM when used in tandem and I like the blend I hear between the two.
Import is on the left...the plywood is thinner therefore the corners are different (as the corners-with-lip are designed for 3/4 in. plywood).
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