fEARful?

[tombowlus]

Exactly. I use my 12/6 for small-to-medium gigs, my 15/6 for medium-to-large, and both when I need to "go big".

TBer Tom Bowlus has used his 12/6 with a full band outdoors (!), and said he had no problem keeping up:


(From this thread.)

True story. We were being somewhat mindful of our volume, but it was still darned impressive!

 

[Bigskybassguy]

Is there anyone in Canada who builds these?

I'm in Montana; hell, I'll build one for you for free. That's how much fun I had doing it.
Just pay for the basic materials ($60-ish for 5x5' birch plywood, $10-ish for Loctite PL and shipping). PM me.

Listen, I'm too old & stupid to be a scammer...just retired, bored, with a table saw that sees no action.

This is my rig on stage outdoors at the Powder Horn Lounge in Billings MT...

 

[shawshank72]

I'm in Montana; hell, I'll build one for you for free. That's how much fun I had doing it.
Just pay for the basic materials ($60-ish for 5x5' birch plywood, $10-ish for Loctite PL and shipping). PM me.

Listen, I'm too old & stupid to be a scammer...just retired, bored, with a table saw that sees no action.

This is my rig on stage outdoors at the Powder Horn Lounge in Billings MT...
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What about the speaker(s)?
Nice looking rig.
Thank you for the offer, will keep this in mind.

 

[Lonnybass]

Am I correct in understanding that the difference is simply putting the baffle on the left on one cab, and on the right in the other? And then the cabs get stacked?

Damn, I am GASsing pretty hard on these right now... And I haven't even finished upgrading my 410...

Here's a shot of my "big" rig setup, in horizontal configuration. You can see how the baffles are mirror images of each other. When in vertical stack, they mirror with the mid driver much closer, which essentially turns the two speakers into one single mega-driver.

 

[Snowglo]

Actually that's a bit different. I was asking if the second speaker was actually designed as a mirror image, then stacked. Your description makes more sense. Thanks!

I grabbed this photo from Google. I have no idea who's rig it is, but you get the idea........

 

[azfatboy]

Both of those are beautiful, but the setup that Lonnybass has is what I thought was referred to as mirrored. It would seem that those two setups are distinctly different and would produce very unique sonic results, so I don't think it's just a "6 one way, 1/2 dozen another"... So which one is "mirrored"???

 

[Passinwind]

Both of those are beautiful, but the setup that Lonnybass has is what I thought was referred to as mirrored. It would seem that those two setups are distinctly different and would produce very unique sonic results, so I don't think it's just a "6 one way, 1/2 dozen another"... So which one is "mirrored"???

The one with both mid drivers as close together as possible, as seen in post #105, is the way greenboy intended stacking to be done. They both look mirrored to me though.

 

[Interceptor]

I haven't needed any more than a 12/6 + a Crest Prolite 2.0 against any unmic'd drummer I've been up against. That did take the Crest, I couldn't keep up with my beloved Thunderfunk.

Thankfully, my loud days are over. These days, a single 12/6 lets me have a big fat gospel like tone with headroom to burn running the Thunderfunk.

 

[Lonnybass]

The one with both mid drivers as close together as possible, as seen in post #105, is the way greenboy intended stacking to be done. They both look mirrored to me though.

Exactly. And this is another advantage of the design - in either vertical, or to a lesser degree, horizontal layout, you still get the benefits of the mirror baffle. Depending on stage configuration and what the rest of the back line looks like, I can make sure my setup is matched accordingly. Works great. Incredibly flexible and modular.

 

[Snowglo]

I haven't needed any more than a 12/6 + a Crest Prolite 2.0 against any unmic'd drummer I've been up against.

This is my situation exactly. Add two guitarists packing 50 watt 2x12 cabs. I'm not even close to pushing my 12/6, and am keeping up easily. Like I stated earlier, it only took me 2 years to relax and realize that I'm fine with one tiny Greenboy cab.

 

[Bard2dbone]

I think @Bard2dbone is talking about making a dual 15/6 version of a Rhodes stereo suitcase cabinet. There were (are?) versions that had a stereo tremolo (called vibrato) that bounced the sound back and forth between two speakers in the cabinet. That cabinet was only 9 1/2 inches deep though. I don't know which directions the speakers fire - maybe both?

That IS what I had in mind. The guy who has the Rhodes I want to buy doesn't have the cab, even though the actual piano is a suitcase model, he's been using it as a stage model.

I love the idea of the Rhodes suitcase amp cab. But I'm not actually hugely impressed with the performance of them. I would rather have something that could function as a small club PA. Maybe running both the vocals and keys through it, maybe just the keys. But it would be the Rhodes, my Alesis QS8.1, and possibly a Nord, all through the cab the Rhodes sits on top of.

I was picturing it being the same width as the piano and firing away from the player.

 

[hintz]

Yes! There is my 15/6/1 in Kaneohe (above), and also @hintz (Hi Andy!) , built a 1212/6 and is somewhere out near Wahiawa. My genre is also vocal centric (3 part), with ukulele, guitar, bass, and drums (Aloha and Friends from Waimanalo)—mostly Hawaiian Reggae. My fEARful has been pretty great, though I have had amplification issues with assorted pedals as preamps for a Prolite 3.0.

Hi Jim! I moved to Waianae a bit ago. I haven't been on here lately, but anyways I still got my fEARful and its still the best cab I ever could've made and better than anything money could buy except maybe Barefaced (considering they're also designed to be tonally neutral)...

Anyways hit me up Jim!!

 

[Kirk Bryant]

Not Fearfull........but ...close. Took this pic of a chicks Hoody at the gig last night. Local brewery.