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mixing cabs yay or nay

#81
I picked up an SWR GoLight 2x10 a while ago and I wanted a matching cab. But they were running @ $679 ea , and over $400 used. I got a deal on the 1x12 GoLight closeout brand new for $200. both rated close 400W RMS for the 10's and I think 350W RMS for the 12. Stacked vertically with the 2x10 on the top they sound great , as good as my SVT 810, just not quite as loud.
 
#83
/\/\/\/\this. many will sound bad together, many might sound good...as the possibilities of combinations are almost endless with the amount of 1x15 and 2x10 cabs out there, anything is possible. I myself run a new trace elliot 1028 2x10 and a traditional power house mesa boogie 1x15 with great results...i did try out both cabs together with my amp head to see if they worked well together first.
 
#84
This works...

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#85
agedhorse once posted some pretty great thoughts based on his experience about mixing cabinets. I wish I know how to find it, but I don't. He did make mention that some of the newer cabs play together well if they are designed to do so. I hope I am not misquoting him, but it was something like that.

If I ever get an extension cab for my Rumble 200 which has a 15, it will be a Rumble 115. I like 15 inch speakers and two is twice as good as one!?
 
#86
two fingers said:
You may want to do a search on this topic. Quite often it doesn't end well. We divide into two teams.

Team 1 - This group of folks uses science (or other people's science) to explain why it doesn't work. If you disagree with them they go all "science denier" on you like the global warming crowd.

Team 2 - These folks have been mixing cabs since 1945 with glorious results and will begin to hurl insults at your mother if you do not shut up.

My best results have come from identical cabs.

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You forgot team 3: The guys who reply with Fearful 1/2/3 specs without consideration for the question at hand or the options solicited by the OP.
 
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#87
I have a couple cabinets with different drivers that work well together. In my case, I designed them to have identical phase response at the low freq limit, so they add coherently. That approach definitely can work. Randomly pairing cabinets will give you random results. If you like the result, great, but if you're not designing the cabs to work together, you have a much better chance of good solid liw end using matched cabinets.
 
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#93
Usually people open one of these cab-mixing threads and post the classic "(*grabs popcorn*)" reply. However, in a strange twist on that scenario, I just happen to be eating popcorn right now while browsing Talkbass. So when I saw the thread title, it seemed only natural that I open this thread.


For those of you who know the southern New Jersey shore areas, I'm not eating just any popcorn. I'm eating Johnson's caramel corn. GREAT stuff!!!! :D
 
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Ron Johnson said:
Unless you drop tune below B, then ten inch speakers are perfect in my opinion. I'd love to have two 210 cabs instead of my one 410 cab because then I could take one or two cabs depending on the situation.
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Most of the commercially available lower tuned cabs are built with 10" speakers. Bigger speakers don't necessarily make lower notes. The overall frequency range is a function of both speaker frequency response and cabinet tuning.
 
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#97
take all these 'suggestions' with a grain of salt. Most of these guys don't play in a band, and don't play louder that the TV show they have on the background.

Some combinations can sound very good, but other can sound aweful. You have to experiment, but the best safe bet is to add the exact same cabinet.
 
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crguti said:
take all these 'suggestions' with a grain of salt. Most of these guys don't play in a band, and don't play louder that the TV show they have on the background.

Some combinations can sound very good, but other can sound aweful. You have to experiment, but the best safe bet is to add the exact same cabinet.
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I agree with the 2nd paragraph.

As to the 1st I think far more are playing in bands with bad sound than the few only playing to the TV.
 
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Worldeeeter said:
How do companies like Mesa manage to build amps in the U.S., and sell them at 3x the cost of a Peavey, without being in danger of bankruptcy? I NEVER see posts on TB about buying the latest Peavey amp. Everyone is looking for the 70s and 80s Peavey amps. Why? They don't make them like they used to. Quality has suffered, the brand has suffered, and they had no choice but to move their operation overseas to compete against the other low-end amp manufacturers.
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As you said, Mesa amps cost more, and I bet their total units of production in a year is a lot less than what Peavey delivers, that is economics of scale. Peavey's reputation isnt one of a boutique brand, so raising their prices to keep manufacturing in the US wouldnt be a viable option either.

Also,

Here are 100+ pages of talk about just one of Peavey's new amps.

Peavey MiniMega 1000

NAD: Peavey MiniMega 1000!
 
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