swr horn hisses....

well since the only thing that changed is the bass id say youre pretty much guaranteed that its the bass hissin, not the amp. take it to the shop?

 

aye, thats what I always thought. oh why did you get the Goliath??? You should of gotten the Eden D-410XLT which is just like 90 bucks more and has very low hiss, which you can't hear unless you put your ear to the horn, and the lows are more full than that of the Goliath. oye vay, i feel sorry for you.

 

it's most likely the active electronics in the bass.

 

Now lets not get started on this one!

 

the swr is as good as the eden - it's all personal preference. hey aenema, could you take your amp to the store and play a couple other basses like yours thru it to compare? maybe you could return your ax or swap it out if it is the problem...

 

Exactly....it's not real cool to say "why didn't you get this, it's better". If they would've thought it was better, they would've gotten that!

 

I had a Goliath cabinet a few years back and it hissed all over the place until I bought a DBX noise gate. No hiss. No more.

 

the swr horn is very powerful, and very loud. so any hiss your bass or rig makes will be amplified. a speaker cab is incapable of making noise by itself. unplug your bass and see if the hiss goes away. if not it could be your amp. is your gain up really high or your treble knob?


and i've played almost every eden cab they make...and i wouldn't take a single one over my swr cabs.


but that's just MY OPINION!!!



jason

 

hmmm, I've never heard of HINT of hiss from my Cirrus, so I'd be surprised if that was it.

 

Well i dont know about YOU guys with all your edan this and SWR that. my peavey hisses like it was a snake in its prevouis life. but thats just the horn.

 

First of all, I would like to say "boo" to Bigbohn for the childish remark. Very poor form. If SWR's are so crappy, why do so many guys use them? Are all SWR endorsers tone deaf idiots? I'm not trying to say that SWR is the be all end all of bass amps, for everybody. I happen to like Eden stuff quite a lot as well as lot of other stuff. Anyhow, I digress.

The cab is not the source of the hiss. Hiss comes from noisy electronics (amp or bass or signal cable). The horn just makes the existing noise audible. If you're using excessive top end the hiss will be more audible. Active electronics have a higher potential for hissing than passive electronics do, especially when the batteries are a bit low. I own a goliath and it doesn't hiss any more than any other cabinet I've used with my amp. In short, that cabinet is not the problem.

 

The funny thing here is that both SWR and Eden use EXACTLY the same Foster/Fostex compression driver

 

Okay, dumb question(s) time...

Where are the tone and voicing controls set on your amp? How about on the bass?

Does it only hiss when you plug in the Cirrus? Where are you plugging the Cirrus in, the same input as the passive Jazz?

Set everything flat, on the amp and the bass.

Got hiss?

 

>>>>"The funny thing here is that both SWR and Eden use EXACTLY the same Foster/Fostex compression driver"<<<<

....actually they aren't the same drivers !!!

I have both an Eden (2-12xlt) and SWR (Goliath sr.) ......and through my curiosity pulled out boths horns to see if there was any other difference besides the Eden being Gold....and the SWR being silver.

...well.....the drivers are completely different....
SWR's has a noticably larger magnet assembly....and the diaphrams are very different.
......and definately not interchangable.

The SWR horn is just slightly larger than the Eden also.
They ARE different !!!

Just thought you should know...

PJR

 

An EQ cut at 2kHz will help.

 

yea... what donne said... just turn down your treble knob... on your amp... if it doesn't go away... then there's a signal problem.. bass or amp need to get checked on..