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If you were gonna build a fEARFUL

#42
will33 said:
No...you're adding a little bit of extra wood/weight in exchange for having a beer cooler. No compromise IMO. The beer cooler would be there anyway...this is just a "one trip in-one trip out" solution instead of separates.














:D purposely left out for effect.
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LOL Damn i keep forgetting about the cooler....then by all means build away.....i guess it would kinda be like adding a extra sealed off padded room on the house for the mother-in-law:p adds to the home with out taking away peace;)
 
#43
Tweeters + OD/distortion = nah...not so much. It needs to roll off by 6khz-ish, like a guitar driver. Big, fat, powerful, "warm but cleanish" tube tone, yeah, I could see that. Doing guitar in models/sims/pedal feeds, etc. you have to lowpass like that because they don't have the natural topend rolloff of a mic'd guitar speaker.
 
#46
canadian*eh said:
+1 One does not want to start messing around with the changing up the size of the cab esp when it comes to the inside!! The fEARful are a fEARful for a reason GB put alot of time and work into designing them and to start changing them up is rendering all his hard work and engineering for nothing!
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i agree, but there isn't a fearful 2x12 or 2x15 that would fit in my car (they're all litte too deep to fit in my trunk) so i had to end up making my own version of a 'dually' (and, completely coincidentally, i made it about a week and half before he announced its release).
 
#47
johnk_10 said:
i agree, but there isn't a fearful 2x12 or 2x15 that would fit in my car (they're all litte too deep to fit in my trunk) so i had to end up making my own version of a 'dually' (and, completely coincidentally, i made it about a week and half before he announced its release).
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I think your cab is about as much output as you could fit in a small/medium sized car trunk......with good tone to boot. <----double entendre for our friends across the pond there.:smug:
 
#48
15/6tube.
You can always add another one, or do what I did and add a standard 12/6/1 (it's a width match to the 15/6 tube when stacked sideways on top). The extra cost of cab and xover components is worth the modular transport flexibility and convenience of having 2 fully functional cabs.
 
#49
johnk_10 said:
i agree, but there isn't a fearful 2x12 or 2x15 that would fit in my car (they're all litte too deep to fit in my trunk) so i had to end up making my own version of a 'dually' (and, completely coincidentally, i made it about a week and half before he announced its release).
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I understand that You Did what you had to do to have a cab that would fit you needs and in the end you built your own cab which looks great BTW;) The thing is you did not take a GB designed cab and change it up and try saying it was a fEARful.You made your own design And have named it your own name And i think that is awesome!!:) I am just more talking about people taking a fEARful design and changing it and still hoping it will be a fEARful....Cause it wont be!!:rollno:
 
#50
Geddy the Fearful 15/6 tubes are 8 ohm only, so you would have to get the 4 ohm 1515/66 or equivalent to run with your VBA.

Its surprisingly challenging finding a smaller 4 ohm cab to pair with the VBA,400, which is why Im getting Don from LDS to build me a custom 15/6 for mine :bassist:

Great amp just be careful not to cook it with an 8ohm load!
 
#51
A custom LDS 15/6 does not a fEARful make. :rollno:

Fab Savage said:
Geddy the Fearful 15/6 tubes are 8 ohm only, so you would have to get the 4 ohm 1515/66 or equivalent to run with your VBA.

Its surprisingly challenging finding a smaller 4 ohm cab to pair with the VBA,400, which is why Im getting Don from LDS to build me a custom 15/6 for mine :bassist:

Great amp just be careful not to cook it with an 8ohm load!
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#52
Stumbo said:
What I was thinking about was adding an inch on each side of a standard built fEARful. Nothing internal needs to be changed.
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Anybody ever seen a little plan on the fEARful site called the 15/6tube? Been there for ages, recently revised with a previously described tweet option drawn in so people wouldn't have to figure anything out. Has the same tuning and interior space as a fEARful 15/6.

Fits ~ 24"-wide or ~ 26"-wide tube heads.

Btw, if you haven't read through JohnK_10s recent DIY build, it might be something you want to check out and may change your mind about a few things regarding DIY cabs in general. Here's my take on the topic of DIY builds.
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Treating things on a case by case basis is the way to fly. Generalities about this stuff are hardly any more true than they were 10 or 20 years ago. Which is to say, some things can work out well enough and others can be way less optimal. Even the things that work out well enough often could be optimized in many cases.

So what's changed?
 
#53
greenboy said:
Anybody ever seen a little plan on the fEARful site called the 15/6tube? Been there for ages, recently revised with a previously described tweet option drawn in so people wouldn't have to figure anything out. Has the same tuning and interior space as a fEARful 15/6.

Fits ~ 24"-wide or ~ 26"-wide tube heads.
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A few of us mentioned the tube model fairly early on....we're now on to refridgeration options.:)
 
#54
greenboy said:
Anybody ever seen a little plan on the fEARful site called the 15/6tube? Been there for ages, recently revised with a previously described tweet option drawn in so people wouldn't have to figure anything out. Has the same tuning and interior space as a fEARful 15/6.

Fits ~ 24"-wide or ~ 26"-wide tube heads.
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+100 There you go strait from the horses...I mean GB mouth:p He is saying the same things that a few of us have been saying and that is if you want a cab to fit the tube head then Get The 15/6/tube....to me it really seams like a no-brainer :ninja:
 
#55
Foz said:
1. Measure your usual pack/haul space.
2. Compare to dimensions given on fEARful website.
3. If 1515/66 fits, build that.
[DEL]4. If not, but 1212/6 does, build that.
5. Note that 15/6 will fit in same or less space than the 1212/6, so at least give it some consideration.[/DEL]
4. If not get a more pack/haul space

There - all fixed. :hyper:
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:D

If I didn't like [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] just as much as my cab, I'd maybe consider it. But I do, so I didn't.

How 'bout this:

1. Measure your usual pack/haul space.
2. Compare to dimensions given on fEARful website.
3. If 1515/66 fits, build that.
4. If not, but 1212/6 does, build that first.
5. Then build a 1515/66 too, cuz you know you want to, and it's really handy to have two cabs. And a 1212/6 upside down on top of a 1515/66 would be totally awesome.

:bassist:
 
#56
makohund said:
:D

If I didn't like [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] just as much as my cab, I'd maybe consider it. But I do, so I didn't.

How 'bout this:

1. Measure your usual pack/haul space.
2. Compare to dimensions given on fEARful website.
3. If 1515/66 fits, build that.
4. If not, build it anyways and get a new car.
5. Then build a 1515/66 reverse baffle, cuz you know you want to, and it's really handy to have two cabs. And a second cab upside down on top of a 1515/66 would be totally awesome.

:bassist:
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fixed that for you...
 
#60
johnk_10 said:
personally, i think that two '15/6 tubes' stacked on their sides with mirror imaged baffles (so the 6" speakers line up vertically) would be the best way to go, either that or a 'dually' with 15PR400's in it.
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Have you had chance to play through the Faital's? If so how would you describe the mid range character?
Sorry if you already mentioned this in another thread.
 

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