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Double Bass If you elevate your cab, how do you do it.

Champagne

Champagne

Jan 22, 2012
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West Chester, PA
www.woodcreststudio.com
#1
Howdy folks. I played a gig recently where I wasn't able to elevate my cab due to space in the bar. I usually sit the cab, a small DR Bass 1260 slant, on my folding chair that kicks it back and brings it off the floor a couple of feet. I use a folding chair because it feels more stable over a amp stand and gave me a place to hang my jacket and backpack and a place to stuff my bag under it. Anyway, I played a gig recently where there was no room. I was forced to jam my cab into a corner on the floor. It made the bass very boomy (totally understandable). For the first time ever, I had feedback problems and in the crowd, the bass was not as prominent as I would have liked and I was drowned out. Folks said they could kinda hear me, but I was just drowned out. There was no FOH. Just the guy we were opening for and his P.A.

Today I was thinking and ordered one of these:
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I am going to find the balance point of the bottom of the cab, hole-saw a hole, insert it and then use a sawed-down speaker stand to lift the cab off the floor. I think I will take up less floor space as a result and it will give me freedom to point the cab where ever I want it.

I know a lot of folks use amp stands and the like to elevate their cabs and I was curious if anyone has done something similar like I am about to. I'm not really keen on drilling a hole in my cab though I prefer it to the external speaker stand mount, and this solution seemed the best option.

So, in ending I have a couple questions:

1- Would anyone have concerns elevating their cab this way and/or has experience of this method?
2- Curiosity: What elevation have you found to be your sweet spot? (I have to cut the pipe and will only have from the lowest point to a +1 1/2' adjustment to work with due to the type of speaker stand I have that I am modifying.

Thanks!
 
#2
I am beginning to use the Mike Arnapol Sub 10 with his 45 cabinet. Both are drilled for a speaker type pole and I just started working with it today (literally got the sub 10 cab a few hours ago). First impression it gets it by your ear and in this case leaves the 10" on the floor. Anytime (my experience) when you lift your entire cabinet off the floor you loose the coupling effect and loose some bass response. Having said that it sounds like you are used to getting the cab off the floor so the way in which you do that seems fine if you put it on a speaker stand.
 
#3
tappingtrance said:
I am beginning to use the Mike Arnapol Sub 10 with his 45 cabinet. Both are drilled for a speaker type pole and I just started working with it today (literally got the sub 10 cab a few hours ago). First impression it gets it by your ear and in this case leaves the 10" on the floor. Anytime (my experience) when you lift your entire cabinet off the floor you loose the coupling effect and loose some bass response. Having said that it sounds like you are used to getting the cab off the floor so the way in which you do that seems fine if you put it on a speaker stand.
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#9
Im posting in this thread as well, I just lost the casters on my GK Neo 410 and would like a more/better solution to cab elevation. The casters I had on there before worked nice while they lasted. But then worked their ways around and out of the stems so I dont think I want to go that route again. That AmpWedge looks pretty cool. But wouldnt you need something behind it so it didnt tip backwards??
 
#12
Champagne said:
Interesting... Never saw that wedge thing before. I have seen the external stand mounts. I didn't want to screw it to the bottom of the cab because I would have to take it off all the time as I would only need it at gigs since I have a second drbass cab that it sits on at home.
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Ever thought to stand your cab upside down after those things were installed? Just when you're not using them. That's what my vocalist does with his monitors since he installed those on his.
 
#13
my primary cab is angled. So I wouldn't be able to lock the cabinets together in a stack if it was upside down. After reading the posts here what I'm going to do is make a platform gigbox that has the post hole in it so I can stack it on top of that without having to put a hole in the cabinet. The gig box will replace my backpack and will hold my shuttle head.
 

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