My rig complete!

[MIJ-VI]

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There it is in its fairly simplistic glory. Yamaha PB-1 -> Carvin DCM 1540L (bridged) -> LDS 15/6 fEarful.

The 1.0v sensitivity of the Carvin really makes it easy to drive. The Yammy can easily over power its input and it gets ear bleedingly loud pretty easily but sounds darn nice quiet too. I'm running around:

2 treble / 7 mids / 4 bass / +4 at 180hz. Makes for a really surprisingly warm tone with the pure solid state PB-1.

The pre is not ridiculously flexible, but it can dial in a little crunch if need be. I expect I will use pedals for any different sounds I need.

Hi rpsands.

What's the X-over frequency of your new cab?

Thank you.

 

[JimmyM]

I'd wager that an SVT head is inherently a lot more hi-fi sounding than its 8x10 cabinet.

Matching Super Valve Technology with a technically superior cab design may confer upon the venerable SVT an overdue justice.

Time and technology march on...

You're right that an SVT is a lot more hi fi than the 810, but there's something about that old 810. I really don't care that it's not hi fi at all...but I've never done a hi fi rig, so I'm willing to give it a shot.

 

[MIJ-VI]

You're right that an SVT is a lot more hi fi than the 810, but there's something about that old 810. I really don't care that it's not hi fi at all...but I've never done a hi fi rig, so I'm willing to give it a shot.

I dig. Just as photography's greater accuracy didn't completely supplant the interpretive hue & dimensional perspective of paintings born more of art than science, so it is that the musical filtering offered by technically 'inefficient', or even 'wrong' cab designs will still have a place in today's growing - and exciting - arsenal of bass amplification.

In the pursuit of art, modern cab designs like the OP's new LDS provide a comparative means of further appreciating the character of time-tested designs like the infinite baffle 8x10.

That being said, I wouldn't trade my new VT Bass for my old SVT.

IMO, the unparalleled ability to obtain makes-me-feel-like-a-teenager-again overdrive at controlled volume levels pawns the admitted mojo of the real McCoy--just as the I-can-hear-my-bass-better-on-stage-now response of newer cab designs will likely elbow more classic cabinets off of more stages..., which is what the 8x10 did when it was the new box on the band stand.

Time and technology march on.., and everyone loves a parade.

 

[JimmyM]

Yeah, if you're an Ampeg fan, you really have to marvel at how well the VT nails those tones. It's pretty amazing. For all intents and purposes, it's as good as the real thing on a gig. But dang if I don't feel better about myself when I bring my SVT. And then I plug the VT into it and get gnarly!

 

[MIJ-VI]

Yes, that would be a killer combo.

A long time ago I tried to achieve a similar aim by adding a B.K. Butler Real Tube Overdrive (which I still own), but no dice. The RTO wasn't even close to the roaring beast that an mid-range boosted, over-driven SVT + 2x8x10's is when cranked like a Marshall rig (in order to bury the guitar player's new and excessively loud amp/turn him into the band's "let's watch our volume tonight, eh guys?" voice of reason).

The VT nails that searing tone to near-perfection and blows away the B.K. like one of those buildings in the old atomic test blast news reels!

The filtering two 8x10s imposes on an SVT's performance when over-driven hard plays a large and important role in forming the resulting acoustic battering ram.

I suspect that an SVT + a hi-fi cab would be better suited to clean, polished tones--augmented of course with a VT Bass.

 

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I really dug the LDS version 15/6.5 with the 6.5 turned off... super smooth. These cabs really do sound nice.