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Double Bass Scope creep: lower, louder

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crockpot2001

Dec 15, 2009
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Incheon, South Korea
#1
I bought a GB 3.0 8T for the ultimate in lightweight abss for super small clubs and self monitoring. It's fantastic for my Ergo EUB.

Fast forward 2 months. We now have upcoming gigs at an art exhibit, outside patios of hotels, and a few private parties. I think my little bitty 8" speaker is gonna let me down. Not that we are rocking out but for full sound, I'm suspect.

I'm looking for an extension cabinet. It still needs to be reasonably small / sort of light so a 15" cabinet is out. I'm leaning towards a good quality single 12" assuming 2 12" will just be too much for the GB amp to push.

Am I still gonna be lost amongst the guitar and violin and drums?
 
#2
AFAIK I think the GB 3.0 head is rated down to 4 Ohms (check your manual of course), so it could push a 2x12 if desired. But my similarly rated head (EA Micro 300) feeding a 1x12 is ample for the sort of gigs that you are talking about.
 
#4
TimmyP said:
When talking about an amp's being able to "push" a speaker, it's not the size, it's the efficiency (and of course the impedance). I expect that most 12s are more efficient than your 8, in which case you'd get more volume with the 12.
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Thanks for the responses. I should add that i am looking to add the extension speaker to be run with the 8" speaker I already have. Maybe this changes things?
 
#5
crockpot2001 said:
I bought a GB 3.0 8T for the ultimate in lightweight abss for super small clubs and self monitoring. It's fantastic for my Ergo EUB.
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I'm looking for an extension cabinet. It still needs to be reasonably small / sort of light so a 15" cabinet is out. I'm leaning towards a good quality single 12" assuming 2 12" will just be too much for the GB amp to push.

Am I still gonna be lost amongst the guitar and violin and drums?
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Fantastic unit, have one too!
My extension cabinet is a GB LS112T. (discontinued I think)
The Shuttle 3.0 can go down to 4 ohms only.
 
#8
The combo speaker is 8 ohms, so any 8 ohm extension speaker would work.

I would suggest that you look at the STL-10 or 12, that's a nice, well matched companion to the 8" cabinet, and you would only need to use it on gigs where the 8 wouldn't be enough.
 

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