fEARful™ Part Ten (10)

[Mjury02]

No but you should think of installing some 'backing' plywood on the inside of the cab anyway, just so you can use longer mounting screws.

Thanks for the input BurningSkies... Will do.

 

[Foz]

Where are you at Sigurd... maybe someone could volunteer to let you bring over a coldbeer and your cab so you could compare it to another fEarful and explore the problem?

 

[Sigurd]

I'm in northern Illinois. I played thudfromafar's nEarful last fall. He's in Chicago.

 

[m.oreilly]

i would drop the on board eq and volume, and use the amp for initial volume and eq. i'm getting clean pure everything from this box.

 

[Sigurd]

I should add that I know it's doing something right. One guitar player said that he noticed that the bass was there without "noticing the bass was there." The other said that it sounds less lumpy. I haven't taken the thing to a gig yet. It's either my living room or the basement.

 

[thudfromafar]

Your 3 band active preamp is maxed? If so, try putting that down to normal and see if that changes anything...

 

[Sigurd]

I wish I knew what was what on the 3-band. There's no detent, so I don't know if flat is in the middle, fully clockwise or fully counterclockwise. I'll mess with it some more.

 

[thudfromafar]

I wish I knew what was what on the 3-band. There's no detent, so I don't know if flat is in the middle, fully clockwise or fully counterclockwise. I'll mess with it some more.

You could probably find a manual online for your bass.

 

[Lukejt]

I'm almost finished my Fearful 15/6 build. I've hit a stumbling block, I have 3 51ohm resistors, which brings my value to 17 ohms instead of 20. I believe I ordered the parts when GB had a different spec, IE I have 5 instead of 3 resistors for the other section. I'm wondering, is this what was specced in the first place.

I'm having a tough time easily locating the correct resistors (the online store requires a minimum $$ amount), how will this value affect the sound? I've already completely blown my budget by ordering Duratex ($72 shipped OUCH).

I will continue looking online in the mean time. 60/3, 40/2.....etc. One more thing, why not a 20ohm 25w to keep things simple, due to the load? Why not then 20ohms, 50W?

So ready to finish the build....


Luke

 

[Bill Whitehurst]

Mouser will let you order little as you want.
They still charge shipping, though.

 

[Mjury02]

For wiring up my 15/6, I have some old 10 gauge speaker wire just sitting around. I feel like this is overkill, would I be right in thinking this? I also have some 14 gauge sitting around and feel that this would be enough, since the wires will be so short. If someone could help me out on this, It'd be greatly appreciated.

 

[Lukejt]

Mouser will let you order little as you want.
They still charge shipping, though.

Thanks. Found a supplier on Ebay who had everything for a good deal....

Almost there...........

 

[3506string]

Thanks. Found a supplier on Ebay who had everything for a good deal....

Almost there...........

I'd make sure it was a US supplier. Otherwise it could be 10days to 10months for delivery

 

[Lukejt]

I'd make sure it was a US supplier. Otherwise it could be 10days to 10months for delivery

Phew.... yeah, he is. Waiting for Duratex too, so I can cool my jets. I just can't WAIT to hear this bad boy.

 

[lelandcrooks]

Leland, are the Penn corners paintable?

I haven't tried, but the Krylon fusion plastic paint works extremely well on the melded arrays I build. They're abs, and it sticks like glue. I'd wager it would work fine.

 

[BurningSkies]

For wiring up my 15/6, I have some old 10 gauge speaker wire just sitting around. I feel like this is overkill, would I be right in thinking this? I also have some 14 gauge sitting around and feel that this would be enough, since the wires will be so short. If someone could help me out on this, It'd be greatly appreciated.

You're correct. 10 is way overkill. 14 is still pretty heavy. I think I ended up using 16 gauge.

 

[WCunha]

You're correct. 10 is way overkill. 14 is still pretty heavy. I think I ended up using 16 gauge.

I used 14awg solid copper for the crossover but all my other connections I used 16awg speaker wire.

 

[Mjury02]

Sounds good... 14 awg it is... Maybe I'll use the 10 gauge to make a bi-amp cable for the other jack, instead of wiring it up in parallel.

 

[Mjury02]

Once again thanks for the info... Should be painted and wired today... Testing tomorrow.

 

[DONZI97]

I built 15/6 about 10 months ago, and only was only able to use it in band situations twice into just recently(finally found a near gigging band). But after listening to my recordings of our last practice, I finally realized this thing KILLS! I am running a '10 American P bass into a LMII, and using some effects (BB bass Preamp, MXR 90, Proton, BBM) and occasionally trying the VT bass through it. I at first thought the cab was to high midrangey and trebly, and would always try to eq it out with the amp. I recently added some more dampining, and now I only need to eq with the tone knob on the P bass, and I get great tones from full on to tone rolled all the way off. Here is a link to my build pictures, If someone sets me up a wiki, I'll put them there also.

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