Community GGM cab

[Redbrangus]

Least will forget the JBL 4560's.

You're probably thinking of 4550's; 4560's were dinky little things...smaller (somewhat) than an A-7.

 

[Passinwind]

24771543[/URL], member: 68399"]One of my earlier PA's had 8 of the EV TL-4050's, these things were 3' x 5' x 2-1/2' deep and weighed maybe 150 pounds each. Put 4" casters on them and they were easy to roll around BUT a pain to handle. The casters made them 3' deep. I had a cabinet shop fabricate them during some of their downtime between jobs, surprisingly I am still friendly with the foreman of the shop and it's probably been 35-40 years since this project. We still laugh about the absurdity, it was that dumb of an idea in practice.

BUT, when clustered in groups of 4 or 8, the limitations of low frequency extension became insignificant and the sensitivity was a real world 108 or so down to 50Hz. They took up a LOT of space in the truck pack and in practice they were not very practical except for outdoor gigs. I sold them as soon as it was obvious that high quality bass reflex 18" cabinets and higher powered amps were a better (by far) way to go.

The good 'ol days came with a lot of challenges that many here have never experienced.

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I had a 115 version of that for a while, there were quite a few clone builders doing them back then. Mine was loaded with an Altec 421-8H, and the combination of that, an EB-0, and a sadly beaten up B15N head was pretty sucktastic all in all.

 

[agedhorse]

Least will forget the JBL 4560's.

Had a few of these as well, IIRC they were a modified version manufactured by Northwest Sound back in the 1970's or so.

 

[pie_man_25]

Great googly-moogly...so you know first-hand what an awkward package it is.

No no, it's Googa Mooga... But you're pretty close

 

[wmhill]

One of my earlier PA's had 8 of the EV TL-4050's, these things were 3' x 5' x 2-1/2' deep and weighed maybe 150 pounds each. Put 4" casters on them and they were easy to roll around BUT a pain to handle. The casters made them 3' deep. I had a cabinet shop fabricate them during some of their downtime between jobs, surprisingly I am still friendly with the foreman of the shop and it's probably been 35-40 years since this project. We still laugh about the absurdity, it was that dumb of an idea in practice.

BUT, when clustered in groups of 4 or 8, the limitations of low frequency extension became insignificant and the sensitivity was a real world 108 or so down to 50Hz. They took up a LOT of space in the truck pack and in practice they were not very practical except for outdoor gigs. I sold them as soon as it was obvious that high quality bass reflex 18" cabinets and higher powered amps were a better (by far) way to go.

The good 'ol days came with a lot of challenges that many here have never experienced.

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I had a pair of those (or pretty close) up to a few years ago.

 

[Al Kraft]

I played through a lot of Community cabs back in the 90's and still have 2 Community CSX35-S2 PA cabs that work fine. Community was decent USA made stuff for working bands IME.

 

[Killing Floor]

 

[LHbassist]

In the late seventies, my bandmates and I went to The Community Showroom in Manhattan. We were treated to a display of what some of their speakers could do with small amounts of power put into them. They were impressive. The GGM cabinets they had, well lets say the salesman was quite enthusiastic about their capabilities. I was sold, and wanted to buy one. A few weeks later, I witnessed some teenage roadies struggling to carry one of those awkwardly shaped things loaded with anvil-weight Gauss 15's, up the basement stairs at Copperfield's - next to Electric Ladyland Studios- a thankfully long defunct dungeon dive for aspiring bands to play for free, alternating with at least two other bands, on a given weekend in 1977. I was pretty much turned off seeing that. I think I heard the band using it, but that, was probably for ten minutes, 44 years ago. I do not recall what it sounded like. Funny that this post shows up today, I was JUST thinking about what ever happened to those cabs.

 

[jeffb28451]

Oh...my... Gawd...I really have played everything, I guess!!

I had a GGM with twin Gauss drivers and bi-amped it with a Hartke 410 XL and an 8 or 10 space rack. I loved the late '80's; wretched excess was
just barely enough to get started!

Heavy, (but rollers on the back), deep and awkward as hell. Couldn't stack anything on top of it...but....wait, the best part is, it
didn't sound very good at all and one of my old friends who played through it after I got rid of it swears that it had a hard fast roll-off at
about 60 Hz.

Good times. To look cool was to play well... oh well. Thanks for the memories. I used it for about 2 years and, I'm certain, sounded like crap the whole time.

 

[Stylee Mousse]

There was a CGM on stage at the Off Ramp club in Seattle in the 90’s. It was the low freq part of the drum monitor stack.

 

[ihixulu]

I played a gig a few years ago where the house rig was a Peavey Mark-IV pushing a Community 3 way 15 cab, 4 ohms. Thing was huge. don't think I can fit it in mi little car.

The rig sounded really good, big and clear, handled a baby bass and a slide bass really well. Fun to play through, glad I don't own it.

 

[rberry7777]

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The Great Googa Mooga made by Community .
Never heard of them . And nothing popped up when I searched the forum .
I'm curious . Anybody know about them ?

I owned one in 70's and used it loaded with two 15" Guass 15" speakers and powered by a Peavey head. Later I added a 6/10 Traynor cab and head as well. it was heavy and crazy heavy for the amount of travel we did. From the live recordings I can say that the rig when miked even with very basic mics, sounded great. After a few years i switched to Electrovice 15" TL cabs with a single JBL: 10" on top of each bi-amped and powered by a Crown Dc300. I still have the TL cabs loaded and they still work fine. That was considered "portable" in the late 70"s early 80"s.