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Official Barefaced Bass Cab Club
- Thread starter Stumbo
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There is no high driver in the Super Twin. I have the Super Compact, the smaller sibling. It is "forward" in the distortion department but I love that.
alexclaber
Commercial User
My guitarist once tried it, 7 string solar into helix floor (with just boost and amp model) into my (PA) amp and big twin2.
Just cut the tweeter completely, no IR is needed, it sounds fantastic.
Just one thing : trust me, you don't want 1kW of guitar in your rehearsal room
I hadn't plugged in my BB2 PA rig for a while, so I decided to fire it up today. Dang, it sounds good. I've mostly been playing through headphones or a pair of Adam A7X monitors. I can't believe I let this beast sleep for so long.
That's a really good thought. I've been playing through my home/backup rig, which is nice enough. But I haven't played through my gig rig, including my BB2's, since everything shut down after our last gig in early March.
I'm going to have to swap things out and put the gig rig up my basement practice area just to hear them again.
I'm going to have to swap things out and put the gig rig up my basement practice area just to hear them again.
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alexclaber
Commercial User
Yes, it's fine with it. Just sounds more like synth bass than typical fuzz bass. I really like it when using fuzz in a funk context. Am experimenting with some clever EQ so you can run a full-range cab like the BT2 for your clean sound and then really dial in the treble response for distorted sounds without even having to tweak the HF dial on the cab.
A pair of BB2 sounds ideal for a small PA. One of the very few 12" cabs with enough bass response and power handling not to sound anemic without a sub. Nice!
It was super convenient for a project I was involved in where we had to lug our own PA, and our most common venue was a second story location with no elevator. I use a Behringer power amp and a Mackie Mix 8. The sound was quite good.
The project was heavily ambient and atmospheric, with lots of low synths and booming samples. I never worried about the rig. It always sounded good. The benefit with the cabs was that people always seemed to volunteer to help move the gear, and then smile once they grabbed a BB2 and realized how light it was
I fired off my BBII and boogie walkabout head last night on my practice session and reminded myself of how great these cabs are. Hopefully there will be some gigs soon.
I regularly gig one or two SCs as needed. The main difference I hear with two is that it sounds bigger, meatier, making volume more effortlessly with much more headroom. (with a GK MB800)
Got a Super Twin on order. Can hardly wait!
One of the lessons I have learned withy my BB2 is not to use the hpf on my Mesa 800+. The low bass on this cab is so wonderful that, unless there is a real problem with the room, it seems such a shame not to use it all. For some reason, I currently seem to prefer the BB2 with my jazz and the Four 10 with the precision. Guess I might be subconsciously trying to justify owning four Barefaced cabs, or maybe it is because the single coils on the jazz like the tweeter/horn on the BB2. Either way I am sorely tempted to add a midget or compact to the family, I just cannot decide which would be a better match to the BB2.
Barefaced owners who play 5-strings with lots of gain: do you run 12s or 10s and why? I need a different cab for my new prog project and I'm not sure whether to go Two10 or SuperCompact/Twin.
My personal preference when using distortion is the 10s. Alex has done some great comparison videos recently which give you a good idea of how the cabs are voiced. Check out the Barefaced YouTube channel
I already did, but it's so hard to get a sense of how a bass cab sounds from a youtube video in terms of the low end FEEL.
Well if it helps, I tune down to A and use varying levels of gain from a bit of grit to raging distortion, and my Four10 delivers the low end in spades. The voicing of the cab works great with distortion, and I always cut through live. The bands I play in are thrash/death/grind so I have to cut through some pretty heavy and loud guitar tones.
However much low end you throw at it, the cab can deliver it. I use a D800+, and even with the deep switch engaged, voicing maxed and bass maxed, the cab doesn't fart out. I don't run it like that personally as it is just too much low end, but the cab can definitely take it.
