Guitar or bass 4x10 cabs

[will33]

Yep. Also aside from distortion or lack of it, a speaker that can perform in the lows can't reach high enough to give a nice chime or cutting lead and vice versa. There is no 1 that can do it all and do it well.

 

[mattybones]

Well... I play bass and guitar. Right now I am playing my Schecter Tempest through a Randall RG100-es through a fender 4x10 cab with an adjustable horn. The Randall has so much low end for a guitar, that it makes a good bass amp too. But as stated I'm playing guitar through this setup and it sounds killer. I can run the clean and ditstortion channels together and I use mainly the clean. But I bring up the gain and volume on the distortion channel slightly and it gives the sound that little extra bump.

 

[Dethrats]

guitar player here.

What in tar-nation is you doing heres? we aint too fancy of you big-ego'd folk. I suggest you head back down that there dusty trail you galloped upon, scooter.
/hillybilly.

but really.. no guitars (and fat chicks) allowed.

 

[BurningSkies]

As per usual, guitar player goes to the bass players for the facts...

There's so much more design work involved in bass speakers AND PARTICULARLY bass cabs than guitar amps...in a guitar world you can drop a couple of your favorite flavor speakers in a randomly sized open back box and have a decent chance of not sounding like a steaming turd (sub par guitar tone), using your favorite head that was designed 50 years ago.

Not so much with bass, where the cabinet design has everything to do with what you're going to end up hearing.

Sub-par bass tone on a gig tends to end up with the crowd not moving and people saying things like "They don't sound very good, but I'm not sure why..."

 

[JHAz]

The beow discussion is based on what I've seen on the internet. To be taken with a coupla grains of salt.

There probably sill is on the Ted Weber site a discussion of the design decisions that went into the "original" 412 closed back guitar cab made famous by Marshall. Ted's research came up with nothing. They probably just built a cab that would hold the speakers, without any real thought as to how to tune the cab.

Fender's original bassman was a low powered 1 15 open back design. Apparently because of problems with blown speakers, they went to a 410 configuration, still in an open back tweed covered combo cab. The idea was that you could blow a ten and keep on playing . . . .

They just didn't make bass specific speakers, or design bass cabs, the same in the old days. Those old combos are still great for guitar but thank goodness we've progressed on the bass side.

And fwiw, my strat sounds pretty darn good through my GK setup, at least if you keep it clean.

 

[billfitzmaurice]

There probably sill is on the Ted Weber site a discussion of the design decisions that went into the "original" 412 closed back guitar cab made famous by Marshall. Ted's research came up with nothing. They probably just built a cab that would hold the speakers, without any real thought as to how to tune the cab.

The dimensions of the Marshall were arrived at by calculating how large a cab they could build using a 5x5 foot sheet of plywood (the standard for Baltic Birch) with minimum waste material.