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Big E Speakers Part 4 - Quadraphenia

#981
spiritbass said:
Dude. I had to register with Homeland Security to import my deadly (Dingwall) basses. You should be required to register this rig with the earthquake monitoring crew (USGS?). :bassist: However you configure it, protect your ears!
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Bassackwards response but all of my key chains are fitted with Etymotic Research Baby Blues.

Fortunately for those on the East Coast of Wisconsin I am roughly 100 miles from the Midwest fault line.

I should be able to avoid detection and thus registration with the Feds.

Although if I add a MAS 112 Essential. ....

Cheers,

Steve
 
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#986
Picked up my 112 Saturday at Mike's. It'll be awhile before I can comment on how it does at volume in a loud gig situation (kinda wish I had the 66 with me as a point of reference there), but, playing it on my own, since, indoors, I can say that it is the most articulate cab I've ever owned - maybe the most articulate I've ever played - from top to bottom; B-string clarity is off the charts. Woofer, mids, and tweeter are, to my ear, beautifully integrated, and every setting (independently switchable tweeter, mids, and mid pad) is useful and sounds good (most balanced sounding to me is all drivers engaged, mids padded, but disengaging the pad adds a nice thickness). Lively sound, super-detailed, and it sounds good even at low volume. Even though it extends low and handles the B on my fretless admirably, it doesn't sound the least bloated with my 4 string P/J.

So far, in terms of tone, feel, and presentation of the sound, I like this more than anything I can recall playing, and can't think of much to improve.

I'll elaborate as I know the cab better and have some quality time with it in a group setting. I'm encouraged by the possibilities it presents.
 
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#987
hey guys, we had a blast at the Asheville Bass Hang last night. Mikes cabs were the HEAT, the whole place freaked over them. We had the 26, 46, 66, 112, and a pair of flex 210 Mods, with a puma 900, VTBP-M-800D, MB fusion 800, Monique 700, Tonehammer 500. Tons of great basses by Roscoe. Here are some vids and a link to an album on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/jake.wolf.1865/media_set?set=a.10153225460184989&type=1

Both vids are the demeter head, the top vid is the flex210, the bottom vid is the 66. Captured with my DSLR



 
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MarkA said:
... it is the most articulate cab I've ever owned - maybe the most articulate I've ever played - from top to bottom; B-string clarity is off the charts.
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My impression, too, playing the MAS 112 at home. A remarkable cab!

First gig for it will be the Hallowe'en party on Friday: a big room with a relatively low ceiling, and decent (but not stellar) acoustics. I've been able to get an OK sound out in the room, people tell me, but the stage is tiny and I have to stand right in front of the cab--which makes it hard to get my mids EQed right for the room and still hear the articulation on stage. Looking forward to taking the MAS112 there...
 
#992
MarkA said:
Picked up my 112 Saturday at Mike's. It'll be awhile before I can comment on how it does at volume in a loud gig situation (kinda wish I had the 66 with me as a point of reference there), but, playing it on my own, since, indoors, I can say that it is the most articulate cab I've ever owned - maybe the most articulate I've ever played - from top to bottom; B-string clarity is off the charts.
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I made a similar statement (which I still stand behind) after playing my 110 Flex. If you play a bass with a B string, you haven't heard what it really sounds like until you play through a MAS cab designed for electric bass. I suspect that a good percentage of players who think that their B string is 'floppy' would change their mind after hearing their bass 'manipulating the vortex'...
 
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112 in the wild. No camera filter just a crap tone of lights, movers, lasers, ect. I like the sound of it so far, warmer low end than the flex, but very nice highs and mids. Supportive yet not bloated. Hard to describe actually, very very different from all the other mas cabs.
 
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#998
I have been borrowing a streamliner 900 from a buddy and I am actually pretty impressed with how it sounds with my flex. I've hated it in the past with other cabs, but it's warmth and color is actually a really nice pairing for the precise and articulate flex 210. Looking forward to trying out on a gig this weekend. That is all.
 
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