in 210's i'm a bag end fan. perhaps not as well known as other brands, but i think they sound great. their 210's are rated at 400 watts at 4 ohms. i love it with my classic head for small shows. they can be had for around $500 for the non-tweeter model. built like a tank. they don't come up used that much cause most people don't sell them.
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Please reccomend me a 2x10 cab
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thanks for input a bit outside my budget however but thanks =) i really want the Basson but i think it sold already. it's not the most portable of the lot but defenently moreso than my 8x10. im seriously thinking about the avatar but im kinda scared nobaody really has described to me the sound of avatar they just say "great bass" or stuf like that. is it like a clasic typw sound? a GKish sound? what should i expect.
As you might guess, it is hard to describe the sound of a cab. Everybody's ear is different. I might hear a cab one way, and you might hear something else out of it. That being said, you don't have to search on this forum very hard to see that 1) Avatar makes great cabs -- regardless of price; 2) a very high percentage of Avatar owners say they would buy Avatar again without hesitation; and 3) Dave at Avatar provides as good a level of customer service as you are going to find.
I have a B210 Neo and it is a fantastic cab. This cab produces a very even response -- what you put in is what you get out of it. It is not thin sounding in any way. Nor is it too boomy or muddy in the low-mids. If you want thump, it's in there. If you want hi-fi, it's in there. It reproduces the tube-phatness of my Mesa M-Pulse perfectly. I love my B210 Neo, so much so that I am ordering another one very soon as opposed to going with a 4x10.
The resale value of Avatars is also quite high, so you really can't go wrong trying one out.
I'm sure it is a great setup. I was going to go with a 4x10 originally, but bought the B210 Neo as I did not have any gigs planned anytime soon and was going to be using it primarily for practicing with my new band in the basement. Once I got it, it completely exceeded my expectations, so much so that when an unforeseen gig popped up, I used it by itself. I didn't have any worries going into that gig and afterwards I received nothing but praise for my tone from my band and from the people in the crowd. All 5 or 6 of them. That's when I started considering an identical 2x10. I just haven't had the need to pull the trigger yet.
I think a pair of 2x10's is a nice alternative to a 4x10. I have nothing against 12's. I just prefer the sound of most 10's over 12's. At least these 10's anyway. The main complaint about 10's is that they are punchy, but not deep, and that you need a 15" or some 12" drivers to fill out the bottom. You can certainly add one of those cabs to the B210 Neo and I'm sure it would sound good. But it is not necessary. These 10's go plenty deep for me. In my book, another B210 would just make things twice as nice.
Just an idea, but for not much more than what you want to spend used, you could get a custom Low Down Sound (LDS) 2x10 made. The cool thing about this is that you could use the stock Eminence Neo 10's, which would sound good and make the cab very lightweight for schlepping to rehearsals), and also Don (the cab designer) could move the tone of the 2x10 cab a little closer to the tone you like (a big sealed multi10) cab through porting and also the use of a small paper cone mid driver (or maybe no crossover at all) versus the standard 'treble oriented' tweeter in most 2x10's.
If you go with the standard Eminence Neo's and the standard carpet cover, Don's 2x10 prices are quite amazing.
If any of this sounds interesting, call Low Down Sound (email is not so good with Don). He is GREAT to talk to, and he totally understands the 'vintage' sort of tone requirement.
If you go with the standard Eminence Neo's and the standard carpet cover, Don's 2x10 prices are quite amazing.
If any of this sounds interesting, call Low Down Sound (email is not so good with Don). He is GREAT to talk to, and he totally understands the 'vintage' sort of tone requirement.
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+1 Good suggestion, Ken. Don's cabs are really great, and quite the bang for the buck!
I wonder how close Don could get to the basic tone of a big fridge in a 2x10 box? I actually played a 210 a while back that he designed for a 'rock pick PBass type' player. It was tuned relatively high in the low end roll-off. It was a two way cab with a tweeter and stock ceramic eminence 10's (can't remember the exact models), but he had the crossover point quite low and maybe some low pass filtering way up top... again, can't quite remember exactly. So there were some upper mids coming from the horn but it didn't sizzle much. Of course, I hated it
, but it had a super articulate, punchy tone.Lot's of cool design stuff being done out of that shop at the moment!
