I received my new cab last Friday - a Invalid Link Removed - and have used it in two very different settings this past weekend.
The new cab has a Faital 12 inch woofer and 4, 3 inch mid/treble drivers in a line array at 8 ohms with a 350 watt rating. I had been using a 4 ohm Acme B2 - 2 10's, a 4 inch mid range and a soft dome tweeter. The Acme has a huge bottom but to me at times it felt a bit too much and seemed to overwhelm the mids and highs. It is also a very inefficient cab although it does take a lot of power very happily (I use a Genz Benz shuttle 9.0 - 900 watts into 4 ohms and 500 into 8). So I was looking for something a bit more efficient with tighter lows and which would sound more balanced across the registers to me (yes it is possible that I am not really looking for "balanced") and lighter weight would be a big plus.
It is a small cab although the footprint is a bit larger than I expected. In both settings I raised the cab off the floor.
My two different settings... The first was a gig in a bar with a pop band - acoustic guitar, drums, 2 electric guitars, and bass with a fairly loud guitar player. I was a bit concerned that a single 12 wouldn't go loud enough for the gig and I didn't want to push the new cab too hard. It seemed to hang in very nicely although at the loudest levels of the band it was perhaps a bit softer than the band required. It very well may have been fine for me to push further but I didn't. In part by not turning up, I was hoping to bring down the overall volume which was well beyond what I prefer. I was wearing earplugs so I didn't get a real sense for how the cab sat in the mix or sounded but my sense was that it was significantly more punchy than the Acme and probably carried a bit better in the room. As for volume... I was playing as loud as I'd ever want to play.
The second setting was a church band. We play at a very reasonable level in a very good sounding and lively room. The instrumentation is a grand piano, acoustic guitar, synth, and electronic drums plus the bass. The punchiness of the cab was very apparent. The bottom was tight and strong but I did miss the big pillow of the Acme. The mids were also a lot more prevalent and any lines I played in the mid ranges of the bass came right out. The drummer sits to the side of the bass cab and told me that he was able to hear the bass much more clearly this week than prior.
I also play with a number of singer/songwriters. I expect it will sit very nicely in that setting as well.
All in all I'm pleased with the cab but I will need to get used to it.
here's the website photo of the cab
The new cab has a Faital 12 inch woofer and 4, 3 inch mid/treble drivers in a line array at 8 ohms with a 350 watt rating. I had been using a 4 ohm Acme B2 - 2 10's, a 4 inch mid range and a soft dome tweeter. The Acme has a huge bottom but to me at times it felt a bit too much and seemed to overwhelm the mids and highs. It is also a very inefficient cab although it does take a lot of power very happily (I use a Genz Benz shuttle 9.0 - 900 watts into 4 ohms and 500 into 8). So I was looking for something a bit more efficient with tighter lows and which would sound more balanced across the registers to me (yes it is possible that I am not really looking for "balanced") and lighter weight would be a big plus.
It is a small cab although the footprint is a bit larger than I expected. In both settings I raised the cab off the floor.
My two different settings... The first was a gig in a bar with a pop band - acoustic guitar, drums, 2 electric guitars, and bass with a fairly loud guitar player. I was a bit concerned that a single 12 wouldn't go loud enough for the gig and I didn't want to push the new cab too hard. It seemed to hang in very nicely although at the loudest levels of the band it was perhaps a bit softer than the band required. It very well may have been fine for me to push further but I didn't. In part by not turning up, I was hoping to bring down the overall volume which was well beyond what I prefer. I was wearing earplugs so I didn't get a real sense for how the cab sat in the mix or sounded but my sense was that it was significantly more punchy than the Acme and probably carried a bit better in the room. As for volume... I was playing as loud as I'd ever want to play.
The second setting was a church band. We play at a very reasonable level in a very good sounding and lively room. The instrumentation is a grand piano, acoustic guitar, synth, and electronic drums plus the bass. The punchiness of the cab was very apparent. The bottom was tight and strong but I did miss the big pillow of the Acme. The mids were also a lot more prevalent and any lines I played in the mid ranges of the bass came right out. The drummer sits to the side of the bass cab and told me that he was able to hear the bass much more clearly this week than prior.
I also play with a number of singer/songwriters. I expect it will sit very nicely in that setting as well.
All in all I'm pleased with the cab but I will need to get used to it.
here's the website photo of the cab
