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Cab/amp doubt. Please help!

#21
Que buena onda, seré curioso, que cabeza te compraste? Le tengo ganas a una Wallbreaker de Vintage.
También pienso armar una caja DIY, pero con parlantes de 12.

>Nice, just curious which head did you get? I'm gassing for a Vintage Electric Wallbreaker myself.
Also planning on a DIY cab, but mine will have 12's.<

:)
 
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nanymoa said:
Que buena onda, seré curioso, que cabeza te compraste? Le tengo ganas a una Wallbreaker de Vintage.
También pienso armar una caja DIY, pero con parlantes de 12.

>Nice, just curious which head did you get? I'm gassing for a Vintage Electric Wallbreaker myself.
Also planning on a DIY cab, but mine will have 12's.<

:)
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That same one, Vintage Electric Wallbreaker.

cheapbasslovin said:
You may struggle to get the head on top of the cab; after that you should be very happy.
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And that´s when a drummer comes in handy
 
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#25
Folks, my cab maker just gave me some possible measures for the cab and the thing looks huge on paper! 14.81 cu ft, 30"W 47"H 18"D
To me it seems as tall as an Ampeg 810 but wider and deeper. Ain't it too much?
 
#26
You think that looks huge on paper? Wait till you see it! Man, that's gigantic! It definitely doesn't need to be that big. You don't want to go too small, but that's way too far in the other direction. Tell him he needs to get a little more realistic. You certainly don't want it much wider than the head, if at all. Might not mind a 47" height so much as I do like tall cabs, but that still seems a little excessive.
 
#28
If I were you, I'd be looking at John's cab and other existing designs using these speakers or similar like Greenboy, Audiokinesis, Baer, etc, and then I'd be planning my cab build to be of similar size. Size may vary a little depending on your tonal goals, but there's no reason to go any bigger than you absolutely have to. And I personally feel that too big is just as bad as too small.
 
#30
A reasonable starting point for a single 15" cab is the venerable TL606 design. You can easily find plans via a Google search.

Given that starting point, it is not too difficult to tweak the design into a 215 by simply laying the TL606 on it's side, stacking another identical cab on top of it. If you stacked two 115s like this you would have a division between the two cabs where the bottom of one cab sat on the top of the other, so you can lose this divider for a 215. This way you should end up with a cab that is around 36" x 24" x 17" and around 6.4 cu ft internal volume. After that, you can run the T/S parameters for your chosen drivers through WinISD to tweak the length of the port shelf for your particular driver.

If you want to refine it further, you can keep the internal volume the same but calculate the dimensions using 1/2" ply and stiffer internal bracing.

Not saying that this is the only answer JohnK_10's DIY build on here is also very tempting, and a similar overall size.
 

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