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RIGS OF DOOM - Ch. 3
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I just acquired a Mesa RR1516BE to pair up with my RR2X15, so here is an updated rig shot:
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Not quite mini and enough doom to get me booted out of my apartment fairly fast. I can now fully use all 450watts of my Marshall MB450h head, paired with the matching MBC410 cab, and my newest addition to my family, Genz Benz neoX 212 cab.
I can now fully use all 450watts of my Marshall MB450h head, paired with the matching MBC410 cab, and my newest addition to my family, Genz Benz neoX 212 cab.
Thats crazy! When and were do you use it?I just acquired a Mesa RR1516BE to pair up with my RR2X15, so here is an updated rig shot:
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I couldn't let BFISHER1970's Ampeg 8x10s go unpurchased so I made a run across the border on Wednesday and picked them up. He's a great guy to deal with!
Eli stopped by tonight to help me get them out of the family room and down into my basement (THANKS Eli!!!)
I popped my Yamaha G100 II head on them (connected the cabinets in series since the Ampegs are 4 ohms each and the Yamaha wouldn't like a 2 ohm load) and had at it.
With a whopping 75 or 80 watts from the Yamaha (it's rated 100 watts into 4 ohms and it's presently running at 8) I could barely turn it up past 1/4 without the house starting to vibrate apart.
Even at conversational levels, Sixteen 10s were causing my E string to feed back....wow!
Now to figure out which head to pair them with... After we test drove this rig, I mentioned looking at the 1900 watt Carvin B1500 to Eli and he nearly fell over he was laughing so hard.
Eli stopped by tonight to help me get them out of the family room and down into my basement (THANKS Eli!!!)
I popped my Yamaha G100 II head on them (connected the cabinets in series since the Ampegs are 4 ohms each and the Yamaha wouldn't like a 2 ohm load) and had at it.
With a whopping 75 or 80 watts from the Yamaha (it's rated 100 watts into 4 ohms and it's presently running at 8) I could barely turn it up past 1/4 without the house starting to vibrate apart.
Even at conversational levels, Sixteen 10s were causing my E string to feed back....wow!
Now to figure out which head to pair them with... After we test drove this rig, I mentioned looking at the 1900 watt Carvin B1500 to Eli and he nearly fell over he was laughing so hard.
Fernando Saunders was the second guy I saw do it. Since then I've seen it occasionally. Justin MJ was doing it for a while. You gain a few inches of height doing it. I would never lay down a single 810 (seen a few do it, though...what are they thinking?!?), but if I used two, I would, just to get the extra height.
Of course, at my age, the only way I'm using two 810's is if a backline company brings them.
Awww, the cab sits 49" high X 26" wide so when you stack two high you get a whopping increase of 3". That's not worth the damage you do to the cabs laying them up there like that. HOWEVER, if you're stacking three high or more like Gene Simmons with 4 high and 5 wide you're just starten to kick some rump. BOB
No kidding! It was an interesting experience getting my new (to me) 8x10s down the basement last night (I can't understand why my darling wife didn't like them in the Family Room
)You could always stack them vertically too. I remember that Billy Sheehan mentioned doing that back in his Talas days when playing a small bar with a tiny stage. He said that the sound guy hated it because they were firing directly at his vocal mic...
Even though the cabinets in the attached photo look to be 2x15s, Black Oak Arkansas' backline made quite an impression on me as a teenager and beginning bassist in the early/mid '70s (I vividly remember "Dirty" starting off Mutant and the Monster standing center-stage with his walnut finished Jazz Bass playing through a wall of SVTs! (circa 1974)). Wow!!!
This works for me. If you have a Rickenbacker in your arsenal, you have to try the stereo feature.
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Here's mine
Mesa/Boogie Bass 400+
SWR: BIGBEN 1X18"
Musicman: Audiophile HD-212 2X12"
1967 sunn ((O))) 200S w matching 1X15 cab
Ampeg: SVT CL
70's Webb 2X15" loaded with JBL D140Fs
Mesa/Boogie Bass 400+
SWR: BIGBEN 1X18"
Musicman: Audiophile HD-212 2X12"
1967 sunn ((O))) 200S w matching 1X15 cab
Ampeg: SVT CL
70's Webb 2X15" loaded with JBL D140Fs
Yeah those are small 2-15 cabs like I used to build, they are 3' X 2' and pretty easy to stack and deal with. I can tell by where the speakers are sitting in the boxes. I personally feel my 810E's are unstable all by themselves. If you hooked a cord and pulled you could topple one over frontwards. I'd be scared to death having two stacked vertical without scaffholding keeping them secure. Then they'd be rear heavy. Thats where stacking sideways is safer. Four high would make a killer 8' high by 4 foor wide stack. I have been thinking about my 410HLF and it would make the perfect height but the 410 is quite a bit deeper than the 810 and the 810 would be better on top of the 410. Sheesh nothing is easy. BOB
***this was updated on 12.04.08***
I ASSURE YOU, IT DEFINITELY SOUNDS "DOOMY"
the bass has 2 outs, the guitar pickup goes to the KB-60, and the bass pickup goes to the 2x15.
I recently bought a 4x10 to use with the woofer so I can set them up on either side of the stage and have a "stereo" setup...
the band consists of me and my drummer, so that explains the extra amp-age.
That bass also has 4 strings now....
I ASSURE YOU, IT DEFINITELY SOUNDS "DOOMY"
the bass has 2 outs, the guitar pickup goes to the KB-60, and the bass pickup goes to the 2x15.
I recently bought a 4x10 to use with the woofer so I can set them up on either side of the stage and have a "stereo" setup...
the band consists of me and my drummer, so that explains the extra amp-age.
That bass also has 4 strings now....
A man after my own heart...I see you're a Lightning Bolt fan. Makes sense.
I'd like to hear you play this thing.
Ok, so I see this and man, do I wish I still lived in Chicago.
BillyB, congrats - from what I could hear of your rig from my house in Minneapolis, the new setup sounds great!
Lonnybass
Ok, so I see this and man, do I wish I still lived in Chicago.
BillyB, congrats - from what I could hear of your rig from my house in Minneapolis, the new setup sounds great!
Lonnybass
Thanks!
I stumbled across a local dealer for Orange the other day and can't get the AD200B out of my head...
yeah, you caught me... my music sounds not too much like lightning-bolt though.... I was going for something between dfa 1979 and lightningbolt, but we pretty much sound like ween.
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