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LDS 8x8 .......catch the fever.

#42
Im in upstate ny. I can see canada from my house. There won't be a whole lot in common with your cab. Mine has more low mid punch, similar low end, a grindier compressed kind of upper mids, similar top. Depending on what kind of tweet you have.
 
#43
rpsands said:
Woulda most likely been plenty loud as a 4x8 or 6x8 :) Still think you made the wrong call there, but glad you're happy with it.

The dispersion's probably not much worse than a 1x15 and with the height you'll hear it a lot better in the near field. So that's something. At least Don got the drivers as close as humanly possible.

The henry is a terrible design for this reason. Why sacrifice dispersion by splitting your drivers up so far? Nonsense.
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I used a Henery 8x8 for a while.
Loved it. Didn't have any issues with the sound or anything else for that matter. But then again, I was using it for me and not to fill out a room. That's what the sound company was paid for.
Great sounding cab IMO. And loud too.

I'll bet that LDS cab sounds wonderful. As Ken said, Don has a thing for those 8" drivers and can get them to work pretty good.
 
#44
I'll be using the cab to fill the room but, running alittle di to the pa tops only for some clarity and dispersion in a crowded room. I've got to tell you guys, Im pretty tired of running sound and playing in the band. It's alot of work and stressful when the other guys don't seem to get it, or what sounds good. My drummer has been changing the sound of his kick every week and that is tough to reproduce consistant results. If there was someone locally who was reliable, we'd probably pay him to run our pa for us. But, there is only other band guys who do a pretty crappy job. This cab should make getting my bass sound easier though!

Hopefully after a few gigs in different rooms I'll still be this happy. There have been cabs that I LOVED at home and in one particular room but hated everywhere else. And then just the opposite. I think this cab sits right in the middle of those cabs hope that it does a good all around job. I'll pick gear that does an overall great job rather than really great at just one thing everytime.
 
#46
Just got home from the first gig with this cab. I've got no complaints. Ran my genz shuttle 9.2 at around 10 o'clock with eq flat. Good punch that didn't fight the mic'd kick at all. That was a nice change. Girls seemed to like it, they seemed to be gravitating to where my cab was. Nice. :D I ran alittle to the pa tops for clarity over the crowd and that really gave me a good even sound. I'll have to experiment with eq more just to know what it's capable of but, flat sounds great. If I wasn't going to the pa at all, I'd probably boost around 800hz or 2khz to cut harder but, I didn't need to. I should try that at the next gig just to see how it would work if that was ever a necesity.
 
#47
I forgot to mention this point. After breaking in the cab with low frequency noise for 8 hours straight and then playing the cab again, I noticed that it started to devolope a slight 400hz range honk. Seeing as though I had just finished reading alot about stuffing cabs, I decided to try it. I used the mattress top foam from wallmart and some 9/16" staples. I line the entire inside of the cab on top of the existing insulation which was probably 1/2" of that batten/furniture stuffing type stuff. The result was that the honk went away, the top end became even more clear and the sound got as tight as when I first unboxed it. I will say that it may be a bit quieter but, thats probably due to taming those low mid/ high bass frequencies. There is alot less sound coming out of the rear ports as well. I probably over stuffed the cab a bit but, I like the sound anyway.

Today I brought my rig out to my parents house in the country and cranked it up. I ran my genz benz shuttle 9.2, tube channel, gain and volume at noon, eq flat, master at noon. The cab took it and didn't sound stressed at all. It actually sounded even better. At 1 o'clock on the master, the genz limiter starts just coming on. At this point, the thing is loud for outside. I ended up rolling the bass down to 11:00 and bumping roughly 1khz up to 2:00. That was the sound I should have been running at the bar last night. Punchy and alittle growly. Just like I thought, placement is pretty important with this cab. Out in the middle of a large yard it was loud and full out to quite a distance. 6" from the house, the sound was louder but, a bit muddier. 3' from the house the cab was louder and thumped at a long distance. I know that it's not supposed to matter about where the ports are but I will confidently say that my other front ported cabs didn't have as noticable of a change in sound as this rear ported one. But, this cab would have been way large if had front ported and I never would have got to use the flared ports. Man, those things WILL NOT CHUFF. I am loving this cab and have been loving my shuttle 9.2 more every day that I have owned it. My favorite head ever. My favorite cab ever.
 
#52
Your cab sounds like a winner. Have you previously used any 215 cabs to compare it with?

Scaling back from what you've gone with, I'd think that a column of four of the Faital Pro 8PR200 drivers would be fairly potent as well. I'd skip the HF driver altogether and make the box somewhat taller to get the drivers closer to ear level. It'd be a bit tippy, but there'd be ways to compensate for that.
 
#53
I think a vertical stack of these drivers with a tweet on top would kill! You could even have the flared ports on the front which would make the cab wider, less tippy and less dependant on placement in a room. With that setup, I think 10's would be great if you could find some that sound like these 8's. I've never heard or seen them though, otherwise I would have done something like that.
 
#54
Just plugged into a few of my other cabs today. My modded 8x10 is no longer my favorite cab. It's great but, the "bar fridge" is just better in every way. LOVE this cab. I do miss the dispersion of my mid loaded cab but, thats it. The 8x8 does everything else better for my needs. :)
 
#55
Koobie, I played an old peavey 2x15 with BW drivers for years. That was a great cab that filled a room and had good dispersion, though at the time I didn't know why it seemed better than my 4x10 for coverage but, I understand the vertical stacking thing now. This 8x8 is quicker and punchier than the peavey. I've got to say that I haven't played any other 2x15 cabs that I liked as much as the peavey. I know that it's because company's try to load in these heavey duty woofers for better low end and then stick a tweet over top. They just sound like crap to me with ganky or boxy mids. The fender 2x15 pro comes to mind.

On a side note, I haven't cared for the tube overdrive on my genz 9.2 at all through other cabs but, I just try it this morning through my 8x8 and it sounds GOOD. I may start using that instead of my other OD's. Again, I would love to have front ported the cab but, it would have messed up the compact dimensions that I wanted.
 

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