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Official Barefaced Bass Cab Club
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I elevate my cabs because I jam in a small basement with up to three loud guitarists. It's hard to hear myself clearly when competing with them so raising it helps a ton. Everyone else also hears me better as well.
I use an HPF because the basement is very boomy, despite raising the cab. How boomy depends on the cab. With a flat eq, I'll adjust the hpf until the boom goes away. Sometimes this will take me to up to 150hz if I'm using a 15" speaker. I then raise my volume until I can hear myself clearly. This obviously filters quite a bit of bass so I'll boost bass downstream on my amp until satisfied. This helps me seperate control between hearing and feeling myself.
It may seem counterproductive to raise bass after filtering with an HPF, but it sounds really good doing so and, like I stated above, gives me great control between what I hear and what I feel.
I'm with you on the HPF logic in general. (See posts above.) I was curious if you notice a difference in the HPF setting when your Barefaced cab is elevated vs. on the floor -- and in the same room?
Sorry, but I haven't jammed with my Barefaced yet. But definitely yes with other cabs. Agian, more so with 15". I'd need to lean in harder on the HPF when on the floor. Caveat, though,.. when I had speakers on the floor I had to play louder to compete.
And also yes in the other side, when speakers are raised I can bass boost them harder post hpf.
I practice with a SC raised on a stool. I haven't noticed any low end loss, but I'm in a small room so I play at low volume.
I play a ST. It's awesome. But you get to live in Paris.
does anyone here run with two super mini/midgets? i love my mini so much i feel like the most obvious way to raise it up approximately 18" off the floor would be to buy a second.
Our keys player has said multiple times that he's never seen a bass player with a pedal board as big as mine - I have 9 pedals on it. But most are utility pedals - tuner, DI, clean boost (for basses that have relatively low output), compressor (only used to smooth my output level as I switch overdrives on and off), and HPF. The others are just different overdrives to change my sound to match the song - one that's my standard tone and the others to give me different levels of OD with lighter or darker tone. I don't really use "effects" - chorus, octave, reverb, pitch shifter, delay, wah, etc. Not that there's anything wrong with them. I just don't need them for what my band plays, though I do have several of those kinds of pedals that I just use at home for fun or for when the day comes that I need one of them for a song we add.
I'll have to show him that picture next time he comments.
I was once told I had the pedalboard of someone who spent too much time on talkbass, so could be worse I suppose.
Mine is small but it reeks of Talkbass.
Got my matching One10 today, looking forward to trying out the full stack.
Awesome! Please let us know how much of a difference it makes over the Three10 by itself!
Looks great! I tried mine One10W with the Three10 and it really fattens things up and projects great.
I can hear the low end drop a bit when I run the BB3 on my Gramma iso amp pads. Nothing too bad, but it's there in my practice room. The B string really brings that out. And really can't live without a HPF now. Either the one in the HX Stomp or the TT800.
This may be helpful for those trying to decide between the 10's and 12's...
I bought two Super Compact 1x12's just when the 10's were released. I would have gone for the 10's based on the description as a more "vintage" type of sound. BUT I have great sounding instruments and an Aguilar TH700 amp (which I love), so I REALLY like to 1x 12's because I'm sending them great tone to begin with, and they reproduce it perfectly.
I bought two Super Compact 1x12's just when the 10's were released. I would have gone for the 10's based on the description as a more "vintage" type of sound. BUT I have great sounding instruments and an Aguilar TH700 amp (which I love), so I REALLY like to 1x 12's because I'm sending them great tone to begin with, and they reproduce it perfectly.
Exactly the same. My first cab was a One10, because we all know that "the cab is at least as important as the head, if not more", and it like vintage sound. I love my One10.
But when it was time to upgrade for bigger gigs, I had a long hesitation between a second One10 (modular 2x10), or a Two10 (modular 3x10) or a Super Compact (nothing modular, just the One10 for small gig and the Super Compact for bigger ones).
I finally choose the SC for the same reason as you: I've got great amps and I love the tone that comes out of them, so I don't need to add extra vintage sauce on top. I was a little bit scared that I would need to spend time tweaking the amp's EQ to make a more neutral cab sound good, but it's not the case. The Super Compact sounds great even with the amp set flat.
Just to show how there's no "one size fits all"... I used a pair of BB2 for a few years. I chose those because of their 'neutral' sound. When the then called "Retro" series with the 10" speakers came out I didn't think it would be for me, as I didn't think a 'coloured' cab is what I wanted.
However I got to try a Two10, and fell in love instantly. Then I got another and sold the BB2s. I play all sorts, I'm not going for a dark old school type (although it can do it very well). I just need to use the EQ controls a lot less. With the BB2 I sometimes struggled a bit with being a bit harsh, or a bit boomy... But with the Two10 I get the right sound a lot quicker.
Reviews only tell you so much, nothing beats trying things in person and sometimes you're surprised at what works for you.
However I got to try a Two10, and fell in love instantly. Then I got another and sold the BB2s. I play all sorts, I'm not going for a dark old school type (although it can do it very well). I just need to use the EQ controls a lot less. With the BB2 I sometimes struggled a bit with being a bit harsh, or a bit boomy... But with the Two10 I get the right sound a lot quicker.
Reviews only tell you so much, nothing beats trying things in person and sometimes you're surprised at what works for you.
Zero k7 - pre-order deposit only - delivery date uncertain!
Thanks for coming to check out the preliminary info about our first amp, the Zero k7. We have a working prototype (as pictured*) of the Zero k7 but the lead times on some parts are quite long and we don't know how many people are going to be wanting to order this first Barefaced bass amp. We're...
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