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Rigs of Doom; Part 4

#122
beebassdude said:
LOL. holy god thats funny.

and might be true. but seriously, do you have any idea?
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they're playing huge arena(ish?) concerts. those venues have the ability to handle that kind of power (if built properly). most houses have 15-20A fuses, arenas usually have fuses up to say 100A or so (i don't remember the actual rating but they can handle a lot) to be able to run all that lighting and other things.
you could also just run cable from receptacles on different circuits (although that might cause a grounding issue if you're singing into a mic)
 
#123
This can crush cars (edit) and will make sphinctors fail:

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Both SWR Goliath II's loaded with BP102-4 speakers
 
#125
The BP's definitely have a bigger, thicker low end. Not as much high end, although I find that the PAS drivers still aren't as bright as some other full range speakers like the Deltalite II's. The DII's have a little too much high end for my tastes. I actually have the treble set very conservatively on the SVT with the horn pad set at -7dB on both cabs, and there is still a lot of high end coming through. This bass is somewhat bright, I barely crack the treble past center detent depending on how I have my pickups combined. Both pickups on wired in series, I have to cut treble. When in single coil modes, I boost treble a tad.

Driven by the SVT, the cabs sound amazing. big and full. But I've noticed that when driven by an SS amp, like my BX-500, the BP's can sound sort of "choked" and one dimensional.
(edit: thinking about this description...basically sums up the differences between Tubes and SS)
 
#126
hartke20g said:
they're playing huge arena(ish?) concerts. those venues have the ability to handle that kind of power (if built properly). most houses have 15-20A fuses, arenas usually have fuses up to say 100A or so (i don't remember the actual rating but they can handle a lot) to be able to run all that lighting and other things.
you could also just run cable from receptacles on different circuits (although that might cause a grounding issue if you're singing into a mic)
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they dont play arenas at all, theyre not popular enough to get that many people to a place that large. they do play larg(er) clubs tho, but still they do shows where they literally run 10-12 amps, so unless they have special generators they haul around with them (which would rule even more lol) or the clubs they play all must have certain power requirements, im at a loss for how they do this.
 
#127
beebassdude said:
they dont play arenas at all, theyre not popular enough to get that many people to a place that large. they do play larg(er) clubs tho, but still they do shows where they literally run 10-12 amps, so unless they have special generators they haul around with them (which would rule even more lol) or the clubs they play all must have certain power requirements, im at a loss for how they do this.
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In that backline, that's 600 watts in bass amps, and 720 with the Model T's.

When I saw Sunn, O'malley was using 3 model T's with 6 Emperor 4x12's. 360 watts. And Anderson was running through like 5 8x10 and 2x15 cabs and 3 or 4 tube amps, Ampeg, and Earth. Keys had a pile of Fender Twin Reverb combo amps for monitor purposes, rest of the keys stuff was in the PA. Can't really imagine them playing small dive bars and not knocking out the power. But it seems like any venue, 400-500 person capacity, with a good PA is already equipped to handle them.
 
#128
I just brought the Acoustic 106 (2X15) cabs up into the room and put the new GK 700 RB II heads on top of them. The bridge p/u's will run through the one on the left and the neck p/u's will run through the one on the right.

The GK 800 RB and Peavey 1810 are for my Moog Taurus pedals.

I want to open up the cabs and make sure everything is OK before I fire them up.
At some point I'd like to possibly re-cover the Acoustic cabs.

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#129
hartke20g said:
they're playing huge arena(ish?) concerts. those venues have the ability to handle that kind of power (if built properly). most houses have 15-20A fuses, arenas usually have fuses up to say 100A or so (i don't remember the actual rating but they can handle a lot) to be able to run all that lighting and other things.
you could also just run cable from receptacles on different circuits (although that might cause a grounding issue if you're singing into a mic)
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Sunn O)))... in an arena?

I don't think they've played one stateside.
 
#130
4001 said:
I just brought the Acoustic 106 (2X15) cabs up into the room and put the new GK 700 RB II heads on top of them. The bridge p/u's will through the one on the left and the neck p/u's will run through the one on the right.

The GK 800 RB and Peavey 1810 are for my Moog Taurus pedals.

I want to open up the cabs and make sure everything is OK before I fire them up.
At some point I'd like to possibly re-cover the Acoustic cabs.

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I used to run one of those 106 cabs for a couple of years. With the right amp those sound awesome! For a while at least that amp was an Acoustic 456 (?). Later I ran it with a 4x10 on top and an extra QSC power amp. That was certainly a rig of doom!
 

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