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Stanley Clarke "Giant Softball" Speaker Cab

#22
I should remember what those bass enclosures were called. We had one in our physics electronics lab. One afternoon, we hooked it up to our WWV FM receiver, through a nice little Macintosh amp. It seemed important to listen to the radio that afternoon. It would have been Nov 22, 1963.

At any rate, that speaker enclosure was quite "High Fi" at the time.

Raf
 
#26
Roscoe East said:
Oh dear god, is that a Phase Linear power amp in the bottom of the rack?

...and a Shure M68 mixer?! Stanley, please, what were you thinking?!?!?!
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Hey, Stanley still uses the Fishman BP100 for his upright pickup...I consider that a far worse crime...until he starts playing ;) I never liked it, but he sings with it.

Anyway, it's all good. The giant ball of tweeters is forgiven. Stanley uses Ampeg now ;)
 
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JimmyM said:
Hey, Stanley still uses the Fishman BP100 for his upright pickup...I consider that a far worse crime...until he starts playing ;) I never liked it, but he sings with it.

Anyway, it's all good. The giant ball of tweeters is forgiven. Stanley uses Ampeg now ;)
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Yup, I had those BP100's on my EUB, I recently installed a copy of the Realist and man, what an improvement. Though it may sound very nice now Í wish I could play like Stanley....
 
#35
Want a 9 said:
I found a picture in my "Guitar Handbook" of one of Stanley's rigs. It says he had a plexiglass dome loaded with 24 4-1/2inch speakers and two cabs loaded with single 15" speakers....
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Sounds a lot like the Phil Jones Bass stuff...large array of small speakers as opposed to some big ones. Ehh, never heard an PJB stuff in person so I cannot opine on it confidently, but the videos I heard on Youtube in HD were kind of tinny compared to others I've heard. Also was listening with flat-response headphones too.
 
#37
jbuck said:
I know who made those cabinets. They had 4 1/2 inch speakers in the dome. A genius named Mike Buyukas designed and built them. He also built those cabinets
Want a 9 saw in the "Guitar Handbook." Mike is from my old home town and I have his speaker cabinets and they still sound better than anything else I've heard in 50 years! Mike got Al Di Meola his gig with Return to Forever and his wife sang on Al's first solo record. The specific 4 1/2" speakers were discontinued and Mike couldn't find adequate replacements. Mike was a brilliant designer but a lousy businessman. The company was called RM Sound. The Rolling Stones bought Mike's monitors after using them at Electric Lady Studios back in the 70's. They bought them right from the studio!
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Hey, I knew Mike, and I have a pair of his "bookshelf" speakers containing 5 speakers @ w/cabs made of Baltic birch!Please respond, thanks.
 
#38
Gary Ross said:
Hey, I knew Mike, and I have a pair of his "bookshelf" speakers containing 5 speakers @ w/cabs made of Baltic birch!Please respond, thanks.
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The guy you quoted hasn't logged on to TB in over 2 1/2 years, FWIW.
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