oh, i turned it up to see what it would do... ungodly loud is an understatement.
but what about the batting vs mattress topper bit?
but what about the batting vs mattress topper bit?
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Really no insulation in my big 3620!
- Thread starter hrgiger
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- Dec 18, 2000
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I actually mix or swap between denser 2" eggcrate foam with dense polyfiber batting myself, often going two batts deep with the polyfill if I am using only it.
I am a copy cat!
i bought 2 queen size mattress toppers and two bags of poly stuffing from the local supermegamart and went to work on insulating my 3620s. i lined all surfaces on the inside of the three "drawers" in this cab(save for the baffle) and stuffed the 2x10 "drawer" with on bag of poly stuffing. it was super easy!
I finished the first cab and stood it up next to the unfinished cab. grabbed my head and my bass and (with a witness) tested the difference between the two. the unfinished cab compared to the lined and stuffed was "airy" and "brittle" with more clank in the highs and a whole somewhere in the middle it still had the lows however. the finished cab was as stated by HRgiger, Solid as a ****ing rock! the highs were tamer and the mids were punchy and present and the lows still rumbled the earth.
I lined the second cab(with the help of an extra twin pad since the 2 queens weren't enough for both cabs) and stuffed the ten section and plugged the cabs back in and swam around in the sea of bass flowing forth from my stuffed monsters!
In fact i ended up turning down a notch or two from my normal setting once the band got together since i could hear myself so much better! i am AMAZED at the difference a little insulation can make.
i bought 2 queen size mattress toppers and two bags of poly stuffing from the local supermegamart and went to work on insulating my 3620s. i lined all surfaces on the inside of the three "drawers" in this cab(save for the baffle) and stuffed the 2x10 "drawer" with on bag of poly stuffing. it was super easy!
I finished the first cab and stood it up next to the unfinished cab. grabbed my head and my bass and (with a witness) tested the difference between the two. the unfinished cab compared to the lined and stuffed was "airy" and "brittle" with more clank in the highs and a whole somewhere in the middle it still had the lows however. the finished cab was as stated by HRgiger, Solid as a ****ing rock! the highs were tamer and the mids were punchy and present and the lows still rumbled the earth.
I lined the second cab(with the help of an extra twin pad since the 2 queens weren't enough for both cabs) and stuffed the ten section and plugged the cabs back in and swam around in the sea of bass flowing forth from my stuffed monsters!
In fact i ended up turning down a notch or two from my normal setting once the band got together since i could hear myself so much better! i am AMAZED at the difference a little insulation can make.
I am a copy cat!
i bought 2 queen size mattress toppers and two bags of poly stuffing from the local supermegamart and went to work on insulating my 3620s. i lined all surfaces on the inside of the three "drawers" in this cab(save for the baffle) and stuffed the 2x10 "drawer" with on bag of poly stuffing. it was super easy!
I finished the first cab and stood it up next to the unfinished cab. grabbed my head and my bass and (with a witness) tested the difference between the two. the unfinished cab compared to the lined and stuffed was "airy" and "brittle" with more clank in the highs and a whole somewhere in the middle it still had the lows however. the finished cab was as stated by HRgiger, Solid as a ****ing rock! the highs were tamer and the mids were punchy and present and the lows still rumbled the earth.
I lined the second cab(with the help of an extra twin pad since the 2 queens weren't enough for both cabs) and stuffed the ten section and plugged the cabs back in and swam around in the sea of bass flowing forth from my stuffed monsters!
In fact i ended up turning down a notch or two from my normal setting once the band got together since i could hear myself so much better! i am AMAZED at the difference a little insulation can make.
Man that is nice I wish I had 2 of them so I could compare! And someone said 2 3620's was Overkill but actually Overkill never used 3620s afaik, it was Nuclear Assault's Dan Lilker that used 2 3620s! I wonder if he lined his up inside?
man i want my 3620 back now. sold it like 10 years ago for 2 bills. hated the undefined everything below about 250hz and the overbearing klank from the 10's. oh, and moving it. but i read too much bass player mag and had it bi-amped with a cs-800, half hi, half low. also used a combo 300, and a 210 i made with some scorpions. In hindsight maybe the prob with that rig was that it was all 80's peavey
