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fEARful part nine (9)

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How important is it to break in the woofers?

Another thing is that when I have the 15/6/1s stacked I get a buzzing noise from the plastic corners vibrating against each other. Mostly from the B string. Anyone have any tips?

Also the 3015LF barely moves compared to my Acme woofers. Compared to the Acmes the volume level is no comparison. I ran both 15/6/1s on one side of my DPC1400X and my two Acmes on the other side of the amp (I normally use the amp bridged). The attenuator for the Acmes was turned all the way up. Then I raised the attenuator for the fEARfuls up slowly until it seemed they were about equal in perceived volume and I would say they equaled out when the fEARfuls reached about 1/3 of the Acmes.
 
#1,002
Took my 12/6 to the church before our worship practice tonight. Got there early so I would have the room to myself. The room seats around 300 people. I played for a little bit and gradually increased volume until I was just starting to clip my amp a little bit. (RBI-Carvin DCM 600 bridged) The soundguy came in and thought I turned on the PA. He coudn't believe the sound coming from the cab. The guitar player walked in and thought the same thing. It was in his head all night. He kept saying he couldn't hear himself all night. I finally had to showl him I shut off my power amp and was running straight to the PA with my RBI. I can't wait to build my 12/sub........And move up to the DCM1000 power amp! Thank You Green Boy!
 
#1,006
Break in is not critical by any means. Spiders and suspensions change their compliance just a tad after running a while. Some folks claim that just a few minutes is plenty. Which might be true. But for me, somebody is paying me to build them a box, and I want to be sure it sounds the same when it leaves me as when they've used it for a while.
 
#1,007
they'll break in eventually after you've played it for a while.
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+1

I just play through new cabs and use my ears and the EQ knobs to make whatever tiny adjustments might be required to accommodate the woofs stretching out a bit as I go.

Which is utterly indistinguishable from me using a cab with couple of thousand hours of use. I doubt I have ever played through a rig for more than a hour or so without an EQ tweak in any event.

I guess maybe there is a guy out there who set his knobs up back in '71 and aint touched em since, but that aint me.
 
#1,009
I always do my best not to push a cab right off, but I'm not sure that's needed at all either.
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I try to never push my cabs under any circumstances.

That's the only way I can get em to sound the way I like... if I hear my cab farting out I feel like I failed to bring the right gear for the gig [or maybe I'm just a fat fingered lout].

I guess that's why I over-build cab stacks and bring about twice the watts I reckon I'll need. A "bring a gun to the knife fight" approach. When done properly I can get the rig as loud as needed, ever so low as desired, and still sound as good as a studio bass track I dinked with for hours [when I'm doing it right]. The fEarful line is a godsend in this pursuit.
 
#1,012
there was one time i actually noticed the difference between broken in and not broken in...when i got my svt 210av recently. took it to a gig, and about midway through the second set i started hearing more lows. otherwise i'm with foz...pretty much indistinguishable from tweaking the lows knob. but i heard it then for sure.
 
#1,013
Question for you guys. I started a thread asking this question, but the posts I got pointed me here.

I built a DIY cabinet a bit ago and I love the sound of it, but I left it with a natural finish. I'm considering "painting" it with Duratex. Anybody have experience using the stuff and does it really protect the wood as much as the advertising for it claims? Finally, is it as easy to apply as claimed? I'm fairly handy with that kind of stuff, but if I'm going to do it, I want it to look real good when I'm done.

Thanks in advance for any responses and thoughts...
 
#1,014
according to duke lejuene it's worth it. i hear they're coming out with smaller kits so you don't have to buy a ridiculous amount of it just to do one cab, too. the only cab i've ever seen with it, though, was a prototype duke sent me, so don't go by me, but it was pretty doggone tough.
 
#1,017
I just finished rehearsal with the whole band and all I have to say is WOW. These cabs are great! I ran my bass and vocals into a mixer and then fed that to the power amp to the 15/6/1s and it sounded great.

I am very happy with them. It looks like the Acmes are going to be going up for sale.
 
#1,019
They are not that hard to build.

I can't take credit for this idea, it is Geenboy's - if you're not comfy building, hire a local carpenter. They are plentiful and likely need some work. I suggest doing the Duratex and electrical parts yourself.

Figure a day's wages to get the cabinet built.
 
#1,020
^ Yep. I'm just considering all avenues at this point. I could go LDS, but 1. I dont want to wait too long 2. I want the exact specs of greenboy's design with no variation.

I'm looking into the local wood worker thing, but I will need to see some samples of their work before I proceed. I can do all the component loading and finishing work but I dont have the tools or space for the box build.
 
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