Rumble 115 cabs:
I could have posted the following in many different threads. It sounds like a criticism, but I am definitely a fan, and the fix might help someone, so I posted here.
If you check EQ graphs of 15s suitable for bass guitar, mounted in the cabinet, for example in the Eminence suggested cabinet pdfs available for many of their drivers, they often show a spike around 2k. I had seen those graphs, but had never noticed anything I didn't like about my 2x Rumble 115s, and so had never thought to apply that observation to those cabinets.
But I was A-B testing my beloved Rumble 115s vs a Heritage 810, and this helped me hear something I had never noticed - a very slight stridency in the high mids of the Rumbles. Funny, had never noticed it, but do now that it's pointed out. Then a few days later I saw those graphs again and said, "ah hah!".
So I used one channel of semi-parametric mids to "find" what I presume to be a small spike at 2k, and to turn it down just a little, and the slight stridency disappears completely. With some basses and some strings it matters a little, for example a Mustang with DTF (which I was playing when I first noticed this). Result is a little more smoothness and beauty around 2k.
I haven't tried my #1 bass/strings with it yet. It's hard to believe it can be even more beautiful, but might be.
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The first time I heard this my surprised reaction was that it sounded like a "speaker in a hollow wooden box"; I thought maybe it needed more damping material. But no, that was wrong, and this is why I think this post might be helpful to anyone who has ever heard this and also misinterpreted it.
I could have posted the following in many different threads. It sounds like a criticism, but I am definitely a fan, and the fix might help someone, so I posted here.
If you check EQ graphs of 15s suitable for bass guitar, mounted in the cabinet, for example in the Eminence suggested cabinet pdfs available for many of their drivers, they often show a spike around 2k. I had seen those graphs, but had never noticed anything I didn't like about my 2x Rumble 115s, and so had never thought to apply that observation to those cabinets.
But I was A-B testing my beloved Rumble 115s vs a Heritage 810, and this helped me hear something I had never noticed - a very slight stridency in the high mids of the Rumbles. Funny, had never noticed it, but do now that it's pointed out. Then a few days later I saw those graphs again and said, "ah hah!".
So I used one channel of semi-parametric mids to "find" what I presume to be a small spike at 2k, and to turn it down just a little, and the slight stridency disappears completely. With some basses and some strings it matters a little, for example a Mustang with DTF (which I was playing when I first noticed this). Result is a little more smoothness and beauty around 2k.
I haven't tried my #1 bass/strings with it yet. It's hard to believe it can be even more beautiful, but might be.
**
The first time I heard this my surprised reaction was that it sounded like a "speaker in a hollow wooden box"; I thought maybe it needed more damping material. But no, that was wrong, and this is why I think this post might be helpful to anyone who has ever heard this and also misinterpreted it.
