Perfect ! perhaps down the road you could offer a custom Aluminum plate for the middle that holds them together , in your colors and logo . most cabs are wide anyway and you don't really need that smaller foot print .
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Mini Rigs of Doom Four
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Passinwind
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Sure, I could just have Front Panel express do custom ears too for that matter. I mostly use this rig with a Thunderchild 112 though, and Tom Bowlus shamed me into doing something that wouldn't overlap the cab. Link Removed
So for now I have a nice repurposed laptop bag that holds the power amp and all my cabling:
And then a lightweight hardshell camera case with cutout foam for the preamp. One trip with a cart, two easy ones without for the casual situations I usually play in these days.
Right on and it is the newfangled thing to do perhaps you can run 2 cabs side by side 
maybe borrow one of Toms 
I like the small rig , but now I see you have options for both , choose a single side by side unit with a single custom face plate or 2 separate units . You will be in a very small group that has such options available . I would think after all that the easy part is a custom cabinet .
maybe borrow one of Toms I like the small rig , but now I see you have options for both , choose a single side by side unit with a single custom face plate or 2 separate units . You will be in a very small group that has such options available . I would think after all that the easy part is a custom cabinet .
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Sssshhhh...my wife might hear you. I've done plenty of DIY cabs, but these days there are are are an awful lot of great commercial ones. My current buzz is onboard preamps, have a few different designs ready to go. And as always, none of this stuff is for sale, I just enjoy the process and want to keep learning for as long as I can.
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Hey Brad,
Hopefully somebody with the wherewithal to do it up right will step up, as I do think there could be a viable niche market. In this day and age selling something without UL approval, serious liability insurance, dedicated tech support, and serious marketing savvy doesn't strike me as a winning move. For me at least, building something that sounds decent and holds up well is pretty easy, and I'm slowly getting a little better at graphics as time goes on. The rest is way beyond my pay grade, really. Link Removed
Completely understood, Charlie. Liabilty is definitely an issue.
Your pieces look great to me.
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Thanks man. The insurance thing became very real to me after working in clubs doing sound. I took a lot of chances by working as an independent sub, never thought about that much until I retired.
minime got a little makeover this weak, a little more mini (-15lbs) and a lot more doom, im thinking of building a 15/6 to go under it just for fun.
dude; you've really take DIY to a whole new level.
sweet.
sweet.
Thanks, I now see that shipping weight is ~22 lbs, so the rack itself is probably actually 20 or so. Looks really good for your application, but my power amp is 10 inches deep, and using 20 pounds of rack to hold 15 lbs of gear wasn't quite what I had in mind when I built the 1/2 rack modules. Link Removed Might just do it anyway though. My modules are each 2RU high but the feet do extend beyond the bottoms a little, so I'd need to take the feet off at least the top one, but all in all it's pretty tempting. If you haven't seen my many postings, here are the pieces in question:
The bottom box is a 700 watter.
and after you say the magic words and watch some trippy Japanese anime you get this..... I call it the twelve inch monolith
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Thanks Alan. It's a lot like playing music, the goal posts keep moving and there's always a bigger carrot out there to try to grab. Link Removed
Is this mini enough? If I stack them horizontally? I love the vertical stack, small footprint, speakers near my ears. My amp was recently making some funky, shorting out type noises, pulled the cover, wiggled the preamp tube, wiggled all connector wires...seemed to fix it. I have a bad habit of leaving gear in car, jostling amp around, I need to correct that. I need a backup amp, the Kustom 500 watter sounds perfect, but they are disappearing, Markbass head (the 800 watt) also piquing my interest.
MJ
This (for me) is mini...
Acoustic Image Clarus II Series 4 (600w @ 4 ohms) into a three way Low Down Sound 1-8 cab. I use this cab just about every day with a Mike Pope Mitre Box preamp and SWR Amplite power amp. Sweet.
This is on the "large" end of the mini scope fo me. The coax Bag End S15BXD is about as small as you can make a 1-15 cab without putting the driver on the outside and sounds great alone. Sometimes I paired it with a coax S10XD 1-10 cab and that was a killer diminuitive rig.
Acoustic Image Clarus II Series 4 (600w @ 4 ohms) into a three way Low Down Sound 1-8 cab. I use this cab just about every day with a Mike Pope Mitre Box preamp and SWR Amplite power amp. Sweet.
This is on the "large" end of the mini scope fo me. The coax Bag End S15BXD is about as small as you can make a 1-15 cab without putting the driver on the outside and sounds great alone. Sometimes I paired it with a coax S10XD 1-10 cab and that was a killer diminuitive rig.
