POLL: Amps & Cabs - Mix brands or use same brand?

[Goooler]

I currently use a Walter Woods Blue Light into a Bag End 12" and a Bag End 15" Loaded with Faital speakers. I like the headroom and clarity.

 

[Bassmec]

I would not consider matching cabinet labels more professional and anyway hardly any bass amp manufacturers have ever manufactured there own drivers.
Eden used to.
Manufacturers custom voicing eminence drivers?.
Yes mate the sticky label makes a huge difference, back in the good old days you could even get celestion to glue Trace Elliot voice coil caps in place of plain ones on a large order.

 

[Dave W]

Depends.

I mainly use non matching stuff (Berg cabs) but wouldn't hesitate to use matching stuff if I liked it.

 

[Omega Monkey]

Would you use an Ampeg amp with a non Ampeg bass?

 

[Ballin'bass]

^Haha! Always.

 

[B-string]

I have matching more by chance than by a belief. If the situation presented for an improvement in one or the other I'm not tied to being unchangeable.

 

[Eilif]

Depends.
When I got my portabass head, I was very happy with the portabass cab (and the employee discount I was getting). When I got my peavey VB2, I didn't feel any inclination towards Peavey cabs when Avatar had the arrangement, weight and cosmetics that I wanted.

 

[nicksmurf111]

Unless you are running a specialized subsonic filter so a speaker doesn't unload, or you are EQing an odd small sealed box...my opinion is it doesn't matter. Pick your poison, mix and match to your heart's content.

 

[Ian Swope]

I've never used the same head into cab combo. Not that I intentionally avoided it but due to a combination of money and convenience I just never went out of my way to procure two of the same. I'm currently running an Ampeg SVT 6-Pro into an SWR Goliath Sr. and can't complain too badly. Well, I can complain about the 'Ampeg' sound which I guess I'm not a big fan of but it doesn't sound 'bad' per se.