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#21
I used to gig with a Peavey Festival 1510T (2x15 2x10) I did in Camo and Hunters Orange.

To fully exploit its A. Large Cab B. 1000 Watts Minimum in Speakers according to Eminence, and C. Large Ports.. I had to use a 2600 Watt Amp on top of it. I miss it. Wish the old band hadn't broke up just for that cab.. haha
 

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#23
62bass said:
An old Electrovoice cabinet with a 30" speaker I found in the back of a movie theater one time when I was setting up to play a show. It was part of the theater's film sound system but hadn't been used for years.

I hooked a 60 watt tube amp up to it to try it out with my bass. It was absolutely awful. A big muddy, distorted roar with absolutely no mids or treble. Electrovoice really blew it with that one. That speaker was noted for being useless. The cabinet was a bass reflex design and must have been 5 feet tall and almost 3 feet wide. EV also made a 24" speaker around that time. I don't think it was any better.
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I think Rickenbacker actually made a bass amp with just that EV speaker.If my memory is correct(a lot of time it isn't)it looked like those triangular cabinet 'transonic" line they put out in the late 60's/early 70s.Never played one but I've seen photos of Led Zeppelin with them.
It's my understanding that those speakers were designed for pipe /cathedral organ use & not anything else.
Still,you can't keep a good sound engineering squad down!
 
#25
I used to own this big two-cab Sunn rig. Playing in front of four JBL D140s was quite simply a thrill.

This was the Noel Redding/Mountain rig, and state of the art for its day... but check out those wattage specs!

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#27
One time, many years ago, in a rehearsal studio played through a rig with two Mesa 400 into a small wall of 10's & 15's. I remember it to be a good playing experience. I used to rehearse at Cool Runnin's (long gone) & at one point they had two monster rigs in the room, two old peavey 18s", each with a Hartke 4-10" on top. One stack powered by a GK 800RB the other some big ass Peavey bass head. They asked my opinion about which one they should keep I said "can't you have them both?" and so they did. I got an Ibanez flanger just so I could have an easy way to plug into both amps. Even playing in a three guitar band I never ran out of headroom. That was where I learned how to play loud.
 
#29
I saw a guitar player with an ampeg vintage 810 with appropriate topping and 4 other full stacks... it was very loud but the tone was incredible... it was just him and a drummer... they couldn't have fit a bass player if they wanted to
 
#31
fenderthrupeave said:
18+2x10 sounded great wish I still had it. peavey 412, was big and weight around 160 pounds, didnt have the amp to push it the way it wanted to so I sold it, wish I could try it with my SVT3, now onto a 215 that I cam trying to get sounding the way I want, speakers are not so good. best set up was old peavey 115 260C combo on top of the 1810, I would kill to have it back.
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I'm new to TalkBass. I still have the Fender Spectrum Cabinet and may be interested in selling it if you're still looking. As it would be almost impossible to ship, you would need to be in the Chicagoland area.
 
#38
SLIV said:
The specs on that rig (above) say 120 watts RMS, 280 watts peak. Not exactly monster numbers. What's the magic? (and I don't say "magic" in a dismissive way)
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i guess the 'magic' is that the 120 watts sounds and feels more like 200 tube watts. and the JBL's are very efficient in a nice sounding, and IMO, efficient 2x15 cab.

here's mine:

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#39
I had a Peavey 2X18/2X10 cab that I rewired for mono use off of my Acoustic head and it was wonderful and huge. I played through a Traynor once that had an 18 facing backwards and baffles off of the top and botton, and a pair of 10s in the middle facing forward that was pretty big too. SVT 8X10 of course. The 8X10 was the best, the Peavey was surprisingly good (later I had a Peavey BW 1X18 and realized how good those speakers are), and the Traynor was adequate at medium volumes.
 

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