Lesh/Gordon/Schools inspired mini rig

For a very hifi full-range Meyer-like sound with only the internal crossover built into the cabinet there is always the Barefaced Big Twin II. It is their largest cabinet but, at 49 lbs for the one with the steel grill, easy to move using the built in wheels. Two 12" speakers designed by Barefaced and made exclusively for them by Eminence. Very flat sounding to the point a lot of folks who like a colored sound dislike the Barefaced 12" offerings. Low-end is off the charts and the cabinets respond excellently to being EQ'd to hear what you want to hear. The crossover point can be adjusted externally from 2kHz (default) to 10kHz so you can select how much of the high frequency info gets sent to the speakers. Cabinet can be fed 1600 watts and has response from 30hZ to 20kHz highs sound smooth and clear with none of the metallic sound frequently experienced with cabinets using a high-frequency compression driver.

I haven't played through any of the MAS stuff but hear nothing but great things about it and am sure your mini-rig sounds awesome. So many excellent choices for bass amplification these days!

 

My 3 favorite players as well. Very nicely done!

 

Paula you are a wild and crazy lass!

 

You got a deal-and-a-half and then some on the MAS cab. That's north of a grand, new.

If you try a different sub and can get hold of one, I highly recommend the MAS 110 sub. Will fit perfectly under the 46 (though isn't as tall and is lighter) and does all of the amazing "vortex" stuff that the MAS cabs do (which, if you've been playing in your office, I'm not sure that you've been properly exposed to, yet). I've used my 110 sub with my MAS 46, MAS Flex mod, and Audiokinesis Hathor 1203 (with which it stacks well vertically and horizontally).

Running the sub with the AK cab was probably the most telling -- the 1203 is an excellent and well-voiced little cab, but running the sub underneath it not only added volume and booty (expected) but helped with the clarity and coverage out in the house -- and not in a subtle way. My (very rough) understanding of how this happens is that the vortices spinning off the sub (sounds like sci-fi, I know) pick up a bit of what's coming out of the Hathor and "take it along for the ride". (I don't want to mislead anyone on that, so I'll invite @Stephen Regier or @Mike Arnopol to correct me if I'm wrong.)

With the Flex and the 46, when run with the sub, I've run both cabs full-range (the 3010 LF in the sub is low-passed internally and the cabs are voiced to work well together run full-range). With the Hathor, I've run both full-range and bi-amped. Both ways worked well -- and playing around with the crossover frequency (with an Ashly BP-41 and a Yamaha PB-1) was instructive, but, for electric bass, I think I preferred both full range.

I've also run dual-mono off a poweramp -- identical, full-range signal going to each cab -- but used to controls on the poweramp to adjust the relative volume of the sub and top. The Hathor and sub just happen to work out so equal power is spot-on in most cases, so running them off a regular mono amp works great (though I use a bit less bass EQ with the sub, obviously).

I've also run with a clean signal to the sub and a (very) slightly grungy one to the top (my Reiner 6SL7 pre allows this without any pedals) and that's pretty neat.

With a standard sub, I don't think that running both cabs full range would work all that well, but it has, for me, in the above combinations with the MAS sub. The MAS cabs are designed to work together, obviously. The Hathor might just have been a happy coincidence. You can also, of course, use it to bi-amp in the traditional sense, crossing the cabs over where and however it works best.

 

Beauty may be how it sounds and the price a super added bonus. Great deal!