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Official Barefaced Bass Cab Club

#11,661
Back on the barefaced bandwagon. My new two10 showed up today. Have some gigs coming up where it should be a perfect fit

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#11,662
gstaats said:
The high end response will most likely be vastly different on those cabs. I haven't pumped music through a subway cab, but the horn on them seems to be the typical bass cab horn that adds high end sheen and clank, but isn't too musical.
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This is definitely not the case. The Subway cabs are very musical on the high end, and their tweeters are definitely not just sizzle and clank. You should really check them out.
 
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#11,669
5StringPocket said:
Power to weight is impressive and I know the BB3 has a big low end, but does it have that crisp percussive punch if driven with a good amount of power and proper EQ?
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The BB3s put out what the player puts in really. A little LPF/HPF helps to tame the extremes. Want wooly or punchy, just dial it up. They are really transparent cabs.
 
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#11,671
For me, what I love about the BB3s is that they are so transparent. Some like to have tone colored by their cabs - and that is fine. Probably one of the 10" cabs is best for that crowd. I spend most of of my woodshedding hours after the kiddos are sleeping, so I use my shure 1540s a lot for practice. I usually run direct into my interface. I've adjusted my setup (bass setup, pickup selection and height and strings) to sound good through that setup. I don't practice with my pedal board much as effects, compression and filtering cover up technique deficiencies. When I practice with an amp, rehearse or play live, the BB3s are the best cab to reproduce the tone I've sculpted with the other choices in my rig. I can also dial up other tones for different scenarios through EQ/filtering choices. No cab change needed. I do not plan on recording with them - I do like my B-15 blended with my khan DI for recording. Just a preference. It would be hard to properly mic a dual-driver cab (woofer and horn). I could see folks recording with the 10's if cone-breakup is part of their desired tone.
 
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gstaats said:
For me, what I love about the BB3s is that they are so transparent. Some like to have tone colored by their cabs - and that is fine. Probably one of the 10" cabs is best for that crowd. I spend most of of my woodshedding hours after the kiddos are sleeping, so I use my shure 1540s a lot for practice. I usually run direct into my interface. I've adjusted my setup (bass setup, pickup selection and height and strings) to sound good through that setup. I don't practice with my pedal board much as effects, compression and filtering cover up technique deficiencies. When I practice with an amp, rehearse or play live, the BB3s are the best cab to reproduce the tone I've sculpted with the other choices in my rig. I can also dial up other tones for different scenarios through EQ/filtering choices. No cab change needed. I do not plan on recording with them - I do like my B-15 blended with my khan DI for recording. Just a preference. It would be hard to properly mic a dual-driver cab (woofer and horn). I could see folks recording with the 10's if cone-breakup is part of their desired tone.
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I could see one advantage of a transparent cab might be that the onstage and FOH tone are more similar.
 
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#11,674
I am curious about the big baby. The videos (I know) of that cab don't do it for me. However, my super midget is the bees knees, such a good tone, I imagine it on top of a bb3 might be heavenly (not a recommended combo?). I have a stack of bergantino cabs, but they don't float my boat like the sm....
 
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bdowd said:
I am curious about the big baby. The videos (I know) of that cab don't do it for me. However, my super midget is the bees knees, such a good tone, I imagine it on top of a bb3 might be heavenly (not a recommended combo?). I have a stack of bergantino cabs, but they don't float my boat like the sm....
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I occasionally run a bb2 on top of my sm and it is a great combo, I think all the twelves will combine easily. The sm remains my favourite twelve cab but I do like to drive it with plenty of power - typically a Bergantino Forte HP.
 
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#11,678
Ha, yeah, would like to see that! Seriously. Good info. I run a quilter into the sm, no probem taking that wattage. Yeah, I am going to flip some berg cabs and try to pick up another bf, sm sc or maaayyybbe a bb, but I'm not completely sold on that one, I think I need to hear it in the wild.
 

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