Play where they pay. That's kinda how this musician thing works.
Tim
Tim
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Official Barefaced Bass Cab Club
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I can get a brand new one from Barefaced for less than that
Anyone interested in doing some trading? Four10 for a 210S
What do you guys recommend for a smaller cab for my SVT-VR? I have an Ampeg 810 but it is serious overkill for some smaller venues we play. Looking for something a little lighter and smaller that can fit in my Toyota Carolla and also has a similar sound. Is the 410 at 2 ohms my best bet? Also looking at Atlas Cabs.
The Barefaced Four10 is 8 ohms, but it puts out tons of volume, great tone, 49 pounds. Sounds great with my all-tube Fender Super Bassman 300T. I'd think it would be a great choice for what you say you want to find. Lighter, smaller, similar sound (but considerably better IMO), plenty of volume for pretty much any situation except the most extreme outdoor "festival" venues... and even then, given that you'd likely have PA support.
Yup $975 with cover, plus $50 import duty (5%) = $1025 total cost new. And no waiting, buying yours. (Not sure what current wait time is for this cab but it was about 6-7 weeks when I ordered).
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It says they come in both 8 and 2 ohms on the website..
Thanks for the correction, you're right. Not sure if they always had both options, I bought mine the first week they were available. I don't recall there being at 2 ohm option at the time, but I might have simply overlooked it. A 2 ohm Four10 would be ferocious. 8 ohm model would be better for combining with other cabs. With the output of a 2-ohm model, combining cabs might be wholly unnecessary.
I wonder if they're contemplating merging the two versions into a switchable one like they did with the 210. Probably too much of a designing hassle for not enough requests.
A mere series-parallel/all-parallel switch isn't. However, it is my understanding that the .5 thingy (low-passing half the drivers) that all the cabs in the 10" line (except the One10 for obvious reasons) have complicates things: the LPF components would react differently to the series wiring than it would to the parallel one, setting the crossover frequency at an undesirable spot (and possibly with an undesirable curve, and related overlap artifacts) in either case. That's why they took some time to come up with the Two10S version* (I think the main hurdle was not designing the double-duty circuitry per se but making it fit neatly in a compact enough module).
(Plus, but Alex never mentioned anything of the sort and it's just my speculation, there may also be some mild resistive trickery to bring up the impedance minimums and keep the all-parallel config within tolerance for most amps.)
*In fact I don't even know how the .5 mode is possible with 2x10 in series, but then again even the simplest 'tronic stuff is black magic to me...
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Tonites rig, the unassuming Two10S and BB800.
