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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

Got the T-bird back from the shop today. Series/parallel push/pull pot works, but in series mode, for whatever reason, the neck pickup is way louder than the bridge pickup. He tried wiring it the other way around, and it was still the case. Whatever, though, the barky nasal series tone with both pickups is awesome. Had the tone knob taken out and a rotary pickup switch is there now, instead.
 
Recently I A/Bed it with my 215s using the 2000s with same settings. All other variables controlled, the 215s is much louder and deeper. The dually can obviously take all of the power that the 2000s can dish out including fuzz but I am nervous about pushing those K140s with fuzz beyond the 2000s clean power. The dually has a more high end and a clearer midrange, but even with the bass dimed and bass boost engaged on the amp it still moves less air and has less lows than the 215s. As the 2000s goes up in volume, the 215s maintains a fairly even frequency response maintaining all of its low end and moving more and more air. The dually gets marginally louder which I attribute to the added highs and detailed mids, but the lowend bottoms out fairly quickly.


I emailed the builder with a lengthy diatribe detailed all of the tests I have done and my experiences using it in a band scenario. Hopefully the solution is something easy such as adjusting the port length. Crossing my fingers that I will not have to ship it halfway across the country, but I guess I'll do what I have to do.

I really love the sound of the cab at low, personal practice volumes. In a band setting though I don't see it getting used much at all. I want to love it for those situations as well.

This makes no sense, and doesnt match my experience at all. My Dually has very good low end extension.
 
This makes no sense, and doesnt match my experience at all. My Dually has very good low end extension.

It was confusing to hear. I can hear the dually but I can feel the 215s if that makes any sense.

What's even more strange is this recent experience. I just got the Fwonkbeta on Monday. That filter can throw some serious lows. I can get the dually to put out more lows with that than I can with any of my amps even with dimed bass EQ. It's like a tease. Like the speakers are telling me they can do it but the cab doesn't want to.
 
Question to those in the know.

Just how 2R stable is a V4B? What I mean is, I understand it has a tap and that it can be run at 2R. I also have heard that some amps struggle with 2R even though they have that rating. Will 2R put a serious strain on an old V4B or should it be safe. Thinking of using the two peavey 215s when I get them "deltaed" and possibly the 2000s into the dually for a massive 615 stack.

I could also just get delta 15bs and wire the peaveys to 8ohm loads. I'd like to cut into the back of the cabs and install either a 1/4":speakon jack plate or dual speakon so that I could run my Prolite into all 3 215s.
 
Question to those in the know.

Just how 2R stable is a V4B? What I mean is, I understand it has a tap and that it can be run at 2R. I also have heard that some amps struggle with 2R even though they have that rating. Will 2R put a serious strain on an old V4B or should it be safe. Thinking of using the two peavey 215s when I get them "deltaed" and possibly the 2000s into the dually for a massive 615 stack.

I could also just get delta 15bs and wire the peaveys to 8ohm loads. I'd like to cut into the back of the cabs and install either a 1/4":speakon jack plate or dual speakon so that I could run my Prolite into all 3 215s.

It should be fine at 2 ohms, Ampeg designed them to work with a 2 ohm load as standard practice. Would be lot less work than modifying multiple cabs.
 
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