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fEARful 1212/6, first build!!

#83
wisconsindead said:
Man I'm jealous. I'd really love to have a dual woofer. Some day I'll get around to making another 12/6. Just played on mine last night for the first time in 2 weeks. It was heavenly. But would've been twice as heavenly with more speakers :thumbsup:
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Well your halfway there!! TB member Kekani let me try his 12 and it was crazy loud, that's what sold me!! That same week I got to try Jim carr's 15/6 with my GK and that was amazing, I actually had to turn down my highs (which is a good thing)...but even the single 12/6 is louder than both my Hartke cabs together...

No need to be jealous, I had to sell off quite a few things to fund this, but it has still been cheaper than buying a normal commercially built bass cab
 
#84
hintz said:
Well your halfway there!! TB member Kekani let me try his 12 and it was crazy loud, that's what sold me!! That same week I got to try Jim carr's 15/6 with my GK and that was amazing, I actually had to turn down my highs (which is a good thing)...but even the single 12/6 is louder than both my Hartke cabs together...

No need to be jealous, I had to sell off quite a few things to fund this, but it has still been cheaper than buying a normal commercially built bass cab
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Both of your hartke cabs? what kind?

And if I recall correctly Kekani had some pretty sweet veneers on the front of his cabs. But I may be confusing him with another member...
 
#85
The koa baffles on the 12/6 and 15 sub are still there, but I put a Fender style grill cloth over the 12/6 (I copied the mirror baffle 12/6 I built for a friend), as a sleeper cab. Hintz didn't get to see the koa baffle in person, but he does have it from my build thread (printed out).
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My cab is on the bottom with the Egnater style grill, changed to match the top cap (my friends') which I liked better.
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Truth be told, if I did it again, I'd probably Duratex the baffle and do it all black, just like Hintz is doing. I'm jealous of this build.
 
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hintz said:
(snip) I actually had to turn down my highs (which is a good thing)...
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Keep that in mind when you finish your cab. Many FF builders find they need to re-think eq when going from most other cabs to a FF. I certainly did. My eq now looks more like a frowny face when I'm indoors. Otherwise, all that big LF starts shakin' and buzzin' everything in the room. :)
 
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nick98338 said:
Keep that in mind when you finish your cab. Many FF builders find they need to re-think eq when going from most other cabs to a FF. I certainly did. My eq now looks more like a frowny face when I'm indoors. Otherwise, all that big LF starts shakin' and buzzin' everything in the room. :)
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Oh yeah, I did spend time messing with my EQ when I tried Jim Carr's cab...im not married to any settings so I didn't mind changing anything, I got what I wanted out of it which was complete transparency, I can't wait till this is finished!!
 
#88
kekani said:
The koa baffles on the 12/6 and 15 sub are still there, but I put a Fender style grill cloth over the 12/6 (I copied the mirror baffle 12/6 I built for a friend), as a sleeper cab. Hintz didn't get to see the koa baffle in person, but he does have it from my build thread (printed out).
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Yeah, in pics that Koa looks stunning, but I'm not as skilled so I'm just going for simplicity with mine
 
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wisconsindead said:
Both of your hartke cabs? what kind?

And if I recall correctly Kekani had some pretty sweet veneers on the front of his cabs. But I may be confusing him with another member...
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These kind of Hartke cabs...

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I might keep them as they are pretty cool, just not that loud, the 2x10 is 130 watts @ 80hms the 1x15 is 170 watts but they are *clear* sounding, just not as much as the fEARful's I have tried, but I am running out of space so who knows....they do pair well with my heads
 
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013.JPG ya I held on to my old GK and SWR cabs when I first built my 1212/6/1 but they just collected dust and now that I've finished my second fearful(12/6/1) the last of my production cabs my SWR 12pack is listed in the classifieds, theirs just no need for other cabs now that I have my 12 inch monolith
nice work btw, it will be well worth it these cabs sound awesome with GK heads
 
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Yeah, I don't think ill have room for the hartke's, so ill probablysell em....

doing the stuff today I feel strange, like I was motivated to work on this and now its getting close to finished I feel empty a little, maybe this is that post partum depression mothers experience LOL.... But I'm sure once I plug it in all of that will be gone, I do wanna do this again though, it was way too fun for me:)
 
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Downunderwonder said:
You won't be able to sell them quick enough once you've tasted homemade koolaid.
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+1
My old main rig (Trace Elliot 15" combo) is on loan to a friend who has a P Lyte and no amp, it gets used at living room volume. My old backup Peavey rig is on loan to the son of a friend, it probably runs with the DDT light on permanently. I have used neither since completing my first fEARful and now have 2 so they don't stand a chance.
 
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hintz said:
Yeah, I don't think ill have room for the hartke's, so ill probablysell em....

doing the stuff today I feel strange, like I was motivated to work on this and now its getting close to finished I feel empty a little, maybe this is that post partum depression mothers experience LOL.... But I'm sure once I plug it in all of that will be gone, I do wanna do this again though, it was way too fun for me:)
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nope that's the build addiction kicking in,.. it's not going away, your lucky I have it with basses to, I can't even finish a build before I'm ordering parts for the next one, but im done building fearfuls until I can afford an rb2001 then I build another 1212/6/1 and run them in sterio:wacky:.
next time try building one from scratch, it will take longer so you can stretch out your fix.
 
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