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The ShuttleMax is a fairly difficult amp to work on, A lot of disassembly is required to do the job properly and I have seen a couple come through the shop recently with much worse (and costly) problems caused by improperly handling the repair.
If you've got any more set up questions email me on Tuesday.
More bottom - a little less mid punch and not quite as loud. I like the 12’s as they are perfect between the 210 and 15 for punchiness and more bottom end. I play 5’s and 6 strings and appreciate a little more low end extension. .
I have BA 110-2 S2. I don't believe you'd find it sounds much different than your 210 just less of it. IMHO there's still plenty of bottom end but it will be punchier and lack the rounder fullness of a 112's bottom end.
You can’t really compare to other 212s on the market because it isn’t like any of the other 212s on the market…. i’d buy it in a heartbeat if I had the cash.
Yes, it works great and stays out of the way without getting tangled. It was a little more than I'd typically spend on a cable but I'd been having issues with several instrument cables and may have "overcorrected".
From the design side, we feel that you are correct, not really a direct comparision. The Bass Array design is a somewhat different animal (a multi-driver design) than compared to the standard 2x12. With the stacked 12's your feeling a lot of energy in front of the cab, but some can feel beamy and fall off across the performance horizontal plane, because of the woofers producing so much of the mids and upper mids. With the BA design and especailly with the BA2-212-3 the woofers offer a much broader stage filling depth, and then the response transitions to the Line Array which disperses those important mids, upper mids and top-end smoothly across the spectrum. In comparing this cab to other 2x12's in our line, this was the general feeling, which we feel can be applied to many of the traditional 2x12" cabs in comparision to the BA2-212-3. But there are places for all types of designs, we feel that within the 2x12 catagory, there is nothing that brings the clarity, and depth of tone as this model.
Time to start saving my pennies! This cab really sounds like a home-run to me, and should be a great single cab solution for 99.9% of gigs
Great to hear this. It is a true testimonial echoed many times from players just like yourself. Thank you for using our gear.
I'm in much the same boat. The way I play much of the time and how I tend to EQ should benefit more from the punch of 10s and as you say the BA 110-2 S2 does not lack low end. It just presents it differently. I vacillated over whether to add a BA112 cab or another BA110 cab to my combo and the more I've played it the more convinced I've become to add a second BA 110. I'll do that within the next month or two.
We had to move on and had a few minutes to chat with him before going on. These guys see every type of band come through….from the most amateur to those with old gear that is barely hanging on all the way up to the most professional big time touring bands and everything in between. Sometimes everything is easy and sometimes it takes up to the last seconds to make things work. At the end of the show we told him we hoped we had made it easy on him and he was gracious and complimentary on everything. Was a fun time for sure and glad we could do it even if I had to leave the house at super early and fight downtown traffic…..
JJ, I’ve done a few of these morning TV events, so what you went through with setup and soundcheck in the studio is familiar. I have always been presented with a small monitor to use, like a QSC 10 or 12. I’m surprised that you were able to bring your 410 to the show. Did you actually run through that live as a monitor?I know I’m preaching to the choir here about how good our Genzler gear is but…..last week we played on our local Fox News station for our ‘Good Day Austin’ morning show. Everything had to be done pretty quickly and quietly for the setup process. During commercials and other canned features we could make a little noise and make sure everything was working. We were able to do enough of a sound check at one point to get some levels set and some EQing done etc. Regarding the bass side of things the engineer was happy to see a DI….once again with the limited time it was a ‘plug in and move on’ scenario for him so all good. When he mixed the bass it took all of about 30 seconds. He was pleasantly surprised and commented on how the sound was nice and punchy and the signal was dead quiet.
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