Wanted to give a quick shoutout to Tom Robotham at Trudeep Bass. ( For some contest, I am a relatively new bass player, but have been involved in music all my life at individual, band, and orchestra levels. After switching from guitar to bass a few years ago, I became hooked and currently play a custom Manne 6 string and a Sadowsky custom shop 6 string.)
Since starting to play bass, I have been on somewhat of a pursuit to find the tone and clarity of sound that I heard in my head along with a solid impactful bottom end to compliment the bass. After trying many amps, I settled on the Jad Freer Sisma playing either through the tube preamp or bypassing the preamp direct depending on the tone I wanted and Analysis plus cables. The story of trying different cabinets is a long one, but basically I tried and or owned a bunch including Bergantino, Ampeg, Aguilar, Barefaced, Phil Jones, Markbass, Mesa and a few others. While I liked some things about many of them and enjoyed playing several, there were always compromises in areas that I wished were different.
Then I found Trudeep Bass. I called and talked to Tom at length and decided to give the 9PM a try as a "practice" cab or small room cabinet to see how they were.
WOW! This cabinet is only about 11x12x16 with a 9" woofer and midrange and weighs 29lbs, but puts out unreal bottom end for such a small cabinet. The sound is very accurate, super tight and the bottom end extends way beyond what this size cabinet should be able to reproduce well. The only tradeoff that Tom had to make is that the sensitivity is not super high, but my Sisma has absolutely no issues driving it to where I want it volume wise.
Bottom line, this little cabinet caused me to sell 12" and 15" cabinets that I thought I would keep for a long time. Even comparing this tiny little cab to a very highly regarded 15" cabinet that I had, the low end was much tighter, punchier and even though the "flapping pants leg" effect was slightly less because of the smaller driver, I still preferred even the low end and certainly the tone of the 9PM over the 15" cab that I was using previously. I now have a 12AM cabinet on order from Tom and hope to get it in a month or two - they are not inexpensive cabinets at all, but if you are looking for the best bass cabinets that I have ever heard, I would give Tom a shout.
Since starting to play bass, I have been on somewhat of a pursuit to find the tone and clarity of sound that I heard in my head along with a solid impactful bottom end to compliment the bass. After trying many amps, I settled on the Jad Freer Sisma playing either through the tube preamp or bypassing the preamp direct depending on the tone I wanted and Analysis plus cables. The story of trying different cabinets is a long one, but basically I tried and or owned a bunch including Bergantino, Ampeg, Aguilar, Barefaced, Phil Jones, Markbass, Mesa and a few others. While I liked some things about many of them and enjoyed playing several, there were always compromises in areas that I wished were different.
Then I found Trudeep Bass. I called and talked to Tom at length and decided to give the 9PM a try as a "practice" cab or small room cabinet to see how they were.
WOW! This cabinet is only about 11x12x16 with a 9" woofer and midrange and weighs 29lbs, but puts out unreal bottom end for such a small cabinet. The sound is very accurate, super tight and the bottom end extends way beyond what this size cabinet should be able to reproduce well. The only tradeoff that Tom had to make is that the sensitivity is not super high, but my Sisma has absolutely no issues driving it to where I want it volume wise.
Bottom line, this little cabinet caused me to sell 12" and 15" cabinets that I thought I would keep for a long time. Even comparing this tiny little cab to a very highly regarded 15" cabinet that I had, the low end was much tighter, punchier and even though the "flapping pants leg" effect was slightly less because of the smaller driver, I still preferred even the low end and certainly the tone of the 9PM over the 15" cab that I was using previously. I now have a 12AM cabinet on order from Tom and hope to get it in a month or two - they are not inexpensive cabinets at all, but if you are looking for the best bass cabinets that I have ever heard, I would give Tom a shout.
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