anyone playing an svt4 pro or eden wt800 bridged into a 15/6? how do you like it? and is it enough juice?
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fEARful part nine (9)
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BurningSkies
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Why wouldn't it be enough Juice?
One of the common and constant mis-truths about the 15/6 is that you have to have a bunch of power behind it...and you don't. It can certainly take a lot of power, but plenty of people are feeding their fEarfuls with 250-500w amps without problems and plenty loud.
These cabs can utilize lots of power; they don't require it.
My 12/6 sounds every bit as good with the amp cruising along at low power as it does when I'm pushing it hard.
Edit: BurningSkies beat me to it.
My 12/6 sounds every bit as good with the amp cruising along at low power as it does when I'm pushing it hard.
Edit: BurningSkies beat me to it.
so going back to the first part of the question: anyone play a fearful with a svt4 or eden wt800? is this a good combination?
Cab parts are coming in quick. Had to resort to child labor to help finish with the sanding. I'll be done with primer today. X-over parts are in so I'll hoprfully have that done early this week. Both drivers are due in this week and I picked up a bottle opener to have mounted on the cab. I'm stoked!!!!!! Can't wait to fire it up.
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I would love to see that with the bottle opener!
Man, I need to scrape together some dough and talent and make one of these.
Man, I need to scrape together some dough and talent and make one of these.
Yeah but they had a hard time with my 4x10 & stairs! That's why I went with the 12/6.
Hoping to get my 15sub finished within the next month or so. Got some money back from taxes, and after my divorce and moving costs, I should have enough for the woofer and finishing touches. Can't wait!
Tempted to see if my work (I work in a machine shop) could fab me up a non-standard mesh grill. Got a few ideas floating around. If anything works out, I'll pass it along.
Tempted to see if my work (I work in a machine shop) could fab me up a non-standard mesh grill. Got a few ideas floating around. If anything works out, I'll pass it along.
OK, I have my 6ND410s in hand and crossovers ordered.
I hate that I have to move a little at a time, but at least
I'll get there.
I hate that I have to move a little at a time, but at least
I'll get there.
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Whoa! That's some cab.
I used my usual EQ settings on my iAmp Pro and it sounded awesome. Then I hit the "tone defeat" button to play it flat, and it sounded even better.
This is clearly (no pun intended) a cab that you can listen right thru, similar to a direct in on a board. I think I'll continue to use it flat until I get some more experience with it. Lots of articulation on the higher strings, but I didn't find the mids at all obnoxious, just clear.
The coolest thing is how even the tone is, I can dig in, or not, anywhere on the fingerboard without worrying about hot spots and honks.
Definitely has gobs of bass, couldn't get it to wimp out, but I didn't try too hard (yet), and the iAmp only has about 600W at 8 ohms. More than enough for my usual gigs, but I'll probably try it with my Crown XTi 1000 (1K watts bridged at 8 ohms) real soon now...
I'm not a great big guy (5'8", 160), and it turned out bigger than I'd hoped (yeah, I've got a tape measure, but it was hard to picture it until it was sitting there). But it sure is light! I used arauco, maybe that helped. Haven't weighed it yet, but if it's light enough to brag about I'll surely do so.
At the risk of sounding boring, many many thanks to GB, the rest of the forum, Leland and the other excellent vendors, and everybody else who made it possible for a guy with modest skills like me to put together such a major bass cab.
I gotta say it wasn't quite as easy for me as it apparently is for some of the other people on here -- I made lots of mistakes, and spent a lot of time scrambling to recover. I'm a rough and ready home handyman kind of carpenter, and I had trouble being accurate enough for a project this complex.
But I'll probably forget about all that as I enjoy this amazing cabinet.
Pix posted soon...
I used my usual EQ settings on my iAmp Pro and it sounded awesome. Then I hit the "tone defeat" button to play it flat, and it sounded even better.
This is clearly (no pun intended) a cab that you can listen right thru, similar to a direct in on a board. I think I'll continue to use it flat until I get some more experience with it. Lots of articulation on the higher strings, but I didn't find the mids at all obnoxious, just clear.
The coolest thing is how even the tone is, I can dig in, or not, anywhere on the fingerboard without worrying about hot spots and honks.
Definitely has gobs of bass, couldn't get it to wimp out, but I didn't try too hard (yet), and the iAmp only has about 600W at 8 ohms. More than enough for my usual gigs, but I'll probably try it with my Crown XTi 1000 (1K watts bridged at 8 ohms) real soon now...
I'm not a great big guy (5'8", 160), and it turned out bigger than I'd hoped (yeah, I've got a tape measure, but it was hard to picture it until it was sitting there). But it sure is light! I used arauco, maybe that helped. Haven't weighed it yet, but if it's light enough to brag about I'll surely do so.
At the risk of sounding boring, many many thanks to GB, the rest of the forum, Leland and the other excellent vendors, and everybody else who made it possible for a guy with modest skills like me to put together such a major bass cab.
I gotta say it wasn't quite as easy for me as it apparently is for some of the other people on here -- I made lots of mistakes, and spent a lot of time scrambling to recover. I'm a rough and ready home handyman kind of carpenter, and I had trouble being accurate enough for a project this complex.
But I'll probably forget about all that as I enjoy this amazing cabinet.
Pix posted soon...
Wow, what a cool idea! Definitely makes it look neater and could cut down on the size board needed too.
Put a crossover together - it is a Greenboy 12/6 CBG for Eminence 6.
What I did was route a path for the bus wire on the flip side. I used a tool made by Dremel - the Rotozip. I intentionally did it freeform (and sloppy) that holds the wire in place. I used Formvar coated wire simply because I had it laying around in my shop.
The stuff holding down the crossover components is waxed string. I like that better than tywraps, the string doesn't get brittle and fail over time.
The end result is a crossover that is mechanically rigid, and won't need any standoffs.
If I built one of these for someone else, it would be much much neater.
Jim
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