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Boom Bass Cabinets - Demo Opportunity In Denver!
- Thread starter ebozzz
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They like to keep it fresh and interesting over there, recently started keeping Lakland in stock, and looking at G&L.
They carry some different things for sure
They carry some different things for sure
I purchased my first bass from there and Jason was so easy to work with. I simply went in, told him what I wanted and then asked what he could do. He asked me to give him a couple of minutes to work something up. What I wanted wasn't in stock at the time so it had to be ordered. Needless to say, when he called me over he had an outstanding offer. I bit....
Not isobaric where there is a driver behind the other driver. Think of it more like taking a 1x12 cab and adding a 1x12 inside the bottom port on the shelf. Or a down firing 15" in the case of my BBC Tank 1215. If anyone in the MD area wants to try one and we can hook up on a time, I'd be willing to drop by with my cab. Not an endorser, but happy to spread the word. These cabs are pretty kick ass.
Very interesting. I remember it from Vic's bass camp in May, it was definitely the best sounding rig in the room it was in. I had never heard of it, so nice to get the backstory.
Where in VA are they made? I can always go to Chuck Levin's but if they'll do a factory tour and demo that might be a better way to check out the whole line.
Hey @RichSnyder - did we meet at a MD/VA/DC gathering up in Columbia? Did you change your handle from "CyberSnyder"? Or am I totally remembering wrong here?
Where in VA are they made? I can always go to Chuck Levin's but if they'll do a factory tour and demo that might be a better way to check out the whole line.
Hey @RichSnyder - did we meet at a MD/VA/DC gathering up in Columbia? Did you change your handle from "CyberSnyder"? Or am I totally remembering wrong here?
The price sheet states that they are in Triangle, VA 22172....
EDIT: @Brad Johnson strikes me as being someone who is very accommodating. If you reached out to him, I feel he more than likely could get something worked out for your needs...
That's good to know. What was it that caused that reaction? I work with the company.
There's a Tank 1012 in Denver with an endorser and we're sending a 1015 soon.
Yep, he told me. I think he's trying to wait until it arrives before inviting me and others over. At least, that's what I interpreted. Sounds like there might be quite a few heavy hitters from the Denver area there when it takes place. Me? I'm small potatoes....
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Cool, figured, good to know for sure. I definitely trust your opinion.
Cool, I may do that. I am looking to replace my Hartke HyDrive 112 with something a bit more full-range and generally capable with my Streamliner 900.
It'd be nice to hear some nice full sound fingerstyle bass rather than that slap rickety rack crap.
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While initially inspired by the Glasstone Lil G, we took these in a different direction.
I'm currently not really in the market for a cab like this, but yes, the videos seem very strongly aimed at slappers, with a bit of fingerstyle thrown in as an afterthought. And it might be the recording, but I get a strong sense of extreme tweeter brightness with a frequency hole under that. I guess a lot of people like that sound (and for those folks it does sound good), but these days I'm not interested in that sound.
This is a small operation so a "factory tour" might be a bit underwhelming. We're looking for a larger space but that still won't likely be very large. That was a 1215 at Vic's camp... he got one of the first cabs and used it with the Nashville Symphony with his new bowable Fodera.
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Vernon dialed in the tone that he preferred. This is not the only way these cabs can sound. We understand that many folks may not realize that but with less than a minute of the five minute video spent playing through the cab we'd hope people would understand that this wasn't intended as a demo of everything the cab could do sonically. Instead time was mainly spent on explaining what the cabs' design goals were and how those features work.
Actually we aimed the video at anyone who's in the market to lighten their rig without sacrificing sound. Hopefully even improving on it. And cover a wide variety of styles. Maybe we should've just done it with no playing? BTW that wasn't the tweeter at it's extreme. You can dial in highs like that with a flat amp right from an active bass. Or not of course. There is no frequency hole under the tweeter. That's the sound the player was after.
We had a very nice showing at the New Hampshire Bass Fest run by Jim Stinnett and the feedback we got on that, from a variety of electric players and happily enough some world class upright players was very favorable. So while it's easy to think you might know what this sounds like from a clip, that really wasn't the point. While the feedback on the playing is appreciated, the focus really wasn't intended to be solely on that... any thoughts on the rest of the video? We tried to address the main questions we get on the products.
Just trying to address these points.
I use my Tank 1012 with my Shuttle 9.0. All of the cabs are 4 ohms and for me the Shuttle and Tank are a match made in heaven. I also use a Bugera Veyron Mosfet and a Kustom KXB500.
Brad, I appreciate what you're saying, but I think most of us are looking for a sound we like. If that's not there, the rest of it doesn't matter so much to us. So although only 20% of the video might have been playing, it was 90% of the impact for me. I understand that the cabinet can do other styles. Of course it can, it's a cabinet, and from the sound a pretty good one. But from my perspective I really only heard one sound come out of the cabinet, so that's the lasting impression I'm left with.
The video talks about all the features the cabinet has. For me, I don't focus much on features for a cabinet in particular. Light weight is great, the tilted grill and side ports are interesting. But I'm 99% looking something that sounds GREAT to me, and if it does that, then I'll look at the other stuff.
I'm not criticizing the speaker - after all, I haven't played it or heard it in person. I'm just telling you that the impression I get from the two videos I saw is that it is being targeted at a very particular kind of player (slap, urban gospel, clean modern funk). If you want to interest more players outside that, you might want to shoot some video with a rock player (pick and fingers), a reggae player, a jazz fusion player, or maybe just one person that is good at dialing in several different tones.
The video talks about all the features the cabinet has. For me, I don't focus much on features for a cabinet in particular. Light weight is great, the tilted grill and side ports are interesting. But I'm 99% looking something that sounds GREAT to me, and if it does that, then I'll look at the other stuff.
I'm not criticizing the speaker - after all, I haven't played it or heard it in person. I'm just telling you that the impression I get from the two videos I saw is that it is being targeted at a very particular kind of player (slap, urban gospel, clean modern funk). If you want to interest more players outside that, you might want to shoot some video with a rock player (pick and fingers), a reggae player, a jazz fusion player, or maybe just one person that is good at dialing in several different tones.
