Hell, I'm trying to get to the point of having no need for any cabinets!
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Hell, I'm trying to get to the point of having no need for any cabinets!
So basically I'll get to hear how you sound through that AE410 I sold you - without having to leave home?
Not practical, no. But it does sound like it could be a ton of fun to play through just for kicks!
Holy smokes - what a rig. Why on earth would you get rid of that setup?! (Did you let your gym membership expire?)
Mesa cabs and a Coliseum head. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the rig, other than being very heavy. I eventually gave it to a kid that played metal.
I have a few different rooms in which I practice and I don't like moving equipment around, especially cabinets.
Sad part is I mostly play at night with headphones.
But when my wife and kids disappear on a weekend day and I'm home alone, that's when the big guns come out!
I have a drum set and PA all set up in one of the rooms as well. Hoping a drummer, guitarist and singer will magically appear some day...
I know you want to use the cabinets you have but I haven't used a 410. I had two different speaker rigs.
One was an Aguilar 210 and a 115. I drove them with a Thunderfunk TFB-550B (550 watts at 4 ohms). The other cabinet was an SWR Henry the 8x8 (eight 8" speakers) Both of them were capable of blowing your skirt up further than 10' feet away. Beyond moving your skirt around, they thumped in your chest enough to cause heart palpitations. If I let them go into feedback, you had to move away as the Aguilar rig would let go on a low A and feel like your head was about to explode!
Good luck with your cabs. Please don't fry them!
I know there is currently a thread on a vertical 4x8. I only have experience with the 8x8. It's a stunning sounding cabinet. I imagine the 4x8 will be similar.
Again, I can't comment on your proposed wall of sound but good luck.
One was an Aguilar 210 and a 115. I drove them with a Thunderfunk TFB-550B (550 watts at 4 ohms). The other cabinet was an SWR Henry the 8x8 (eight 8" speakers) Both of them were capable of blowing your skirt up further than 10' feet away. Beyond moving your skirt around, they thumped in your chest enough to cause heart palpitations. If I let them go into feedback, you had to move away as the Aguilar rig would let go on a low A and feel like your head was about to explode!
Good luck with your cabs. Please don't fry them!
I know there is currently a thread on a vertical 4x8. I only have experience with the 8x8. It's a stunning sounding cabinet. I imagine the 4x8 will be similar.
Again, I can't comment on your proposed wall of sound but good luck.
Sure, absolutely. As long as you are giving your amplifier the impedance it wants, it will be happy. It makes no difference whether the connections between the speakers are done inside of the speaker cabinet or inside the amp or in a remote box like this one. Same net result. Just that if you happen to need series connections, the most likely way you're going to need to get them is with a box like this.
Kinda opens up some possibilities for amp/cab choice. I've sold amps because they didn't' do 2 ohms. I"m ok with more drivers but cutting the power in half and going to 8 ohms in some cases.
I'm aware, But I love what Spector did for production with layering, so I shamelessly link and reference whenever I have something like an excuse. It's the only reason I clicked on this thread to begin with!
-I really like threads like this, not because they produce usable practices, but because I endorse sonic mayhem.
This is the bass equivalent of "Drink! Drink Drink!"
Which is all the more reason to do it and glory in it.
For me, in the places I typically play, there would be simply no room on the stage for that many speaker cabinets. I use a vertical stack of a pair of 2x10s. One night a band leader I worked with told me that my amp was way too big for the place we were playing. Meanwhile he had six instruments ranged in an arc in front of him taking up most of our side of the stage. If he'd seen the OP's suggested set up he'd have had a heart attack!!
Ha! Sorry, I should have made it more clear that this is an experiment for home studio enjoyment only.
For playing out, I would use either a single Harry Kolbe 112 for a smaller venue or the Barefaced Super Twin for a larger venue. Coincidentally, each of those options weighs the same 36 lbs. I cannot ever imagine needing more than one or the other of those on stage.
That is a versatile, fantastic sounding, gorgeous-looking, super reliable and totally practical rig. No need to apologize for it!
I use to use 3 SVT's driving 2 V4B and 4 STV flat back 8x10's. That was good but not enough so I went to
4 EV 18" Theil cabs, 4 2x15 EV Theil cabs, and 3 EV Constant Directivity horns with D1202 drivers (IIRC, it's been a long time) powered by a rack of Crown amps and a 3 way crossover. The preamp was an Ampeg B25 (with a TL606 cab underneath to please the tube poweramp). That was loud and clean. Then I hit nirvana running 2 SWR SM900 heads, 2 Goliath III 4x10 cabs, and 2 GoliathJR II 2x10 cabs - stupid loud, made the Warwick thunder, and clean. Could right size the beast for the gig.
Now I'm close to 60 and want something light (Genzler maybe).
4 EV 18" Theil cabs, 4 2x15 EV Theil cabs, and 3 EV Constant Directivity horns with D1202 drivers (IIRC, it's been a long time) powered by a rack of Crown amps and a 3 way crossover. The preamp was an Ampeg B25 (with a TL606 cab underneath to please the tube poweramp). That was loud and clean. Then I hit nirvana running 2 SWR SM900 heads, 2 Goliath III 4x10 cabs, and 2 GoliathJR II 2x10 cabs - stupid loud, made the Warwick thunder, and clean. Could right size the beast for the gig.
Now I'm close to 60 and want something light (Genzler maybe).
what hearing? ear plugs? what were those? When I was running the SWR gear I had hearing protection. In the 70's no. I use to have to retrieve my friend who would climb up PA systems and howl at the moon, we would be lucky to be able to hear 3 days later (I use to see SRB at the 2nd Chance in A2 every Monday that they played there). When I had the full on EV stack I would move it as far away from the drummer as possible and stand betwee the drummer and my amp, cut down on having my heart rate dictated by my bass amp. Poor shlubs in the front row that use to bang their heads to it. I've come to terms with my very loud tinitus. Long live Rock
I Assume that you have things like glassware, hanging pictures, paintings, objects of art, secure, neighbors sent out of town, police notified, and your earthquake insurance rider paid up before powering up? I dunno, sound normal to me.
you have been twice and now thrice warned about potential for mis phase blowing up part of your wall.
