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Weird Cabinet Configurations

#4
Tim__x said:
Phil Jones uses 5" drivers.
I don't think anyone has ever made a 16x8' or even a 1x8', :smug:
perhaps a 1x8".

Sorry that I'm acting like an even more pedantic Bruce Lindfield, (that's not an insult Bruce, I find you quite funny) but it was just too hard to resist.
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EA made a 1x8 (VL-108) and a 2x8 (VL-208). SWR has used 8's in a variety of configurations, as have several other manufacturers. Low Down Sound makes custom cabs, and I have personally seen 1x8's, 2x8's, 3x8's, 4x8's and 5x8's (I own one of these!) from LDS.

But Phil's use of multiple 5" drivers is probably bleeding edge on the unique driver configurations chart...
 
#6
tombowlus said:
EA made a 1x8 (VL-108) and a 2x8 (VL-208). SWR has used 8's in a variety of configurations, as have several other manufacturers. Low Down Sound makes custom cabs, and I have personally seen 1x8's, 2x8's, 3x8's, 4x8's and 5x8's (I own one of these!) from LDS.

But Phil's use of multiple 5" drivers is probably bleeding edge on the unique driver configurations chart...
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Yes I know that many cabinets have been made with 8 INCH drivers, I just don't think any have been made with 8 FOOT drivers which is what an 8' would be. 8' means eight feet, 8" means eight inches.
 
#7
Tim__x said:
Yes I know that many cabinets have been made with 8 INCH drivers, I just don't think any have been made with 8 FOOT drivers which is what an 8' would be. 8' means eight feet, 8" means eight inches.
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ZOOM!!! Right over my head!!! :D I must have been having a Spinal Tap moment!

Touche', my friend!

Tom.
 
#8
Sidecar666 said:
Has anyone ever seen any weird speaker combinations (i.e. 10-6" drivers) or weird enclosures? Things that are way out there?
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The weirdest ones I've seen in a bass amp are the styrofoam trapezoidal shaped drivers that Fender and Yamaha both used in the late 60s and early 70s.

Walsh drivers and plasma drivers are hi-fi, not bass, but deserve honorable mention anyway, 'cause they're keWl. :cool:
 
#9
Eights are great..anyway...Back in the day I used to use a Bose speaker cab for upright, and smaller EB applications. I can't remember the model # but I remember the speaker enclosure had something like 12 little 4" speakers, it was flat and punchy, as I remember it anyway, no 5 strings EB's back then though. I think is was a 908 or 608 or something...wish I still had it!!!
 
#12
I used to use a cabinet Made by G.L.I. that had four 5" speakers and a tweeter firing out front and a 15" passive radiator on the back. The cab was small, light and did pack some punch in certain rooms. Of course if you had a curtain behind you or you played outdoors, you lost some low end. But when you're talkin' abot a package that was 20" by17" by10" and weighed 26 lbs.....
 
#13
lowphatbass said:
Eights are great..anyway...Back in the day I used to use a Bose speaker cab for upright, and smaller EB applications. I can't remember the model # but I remember the speaker enclosure had something like 12 little 4" speakers, it was flat and punchy, as I remember it anyway, no 5 strings EB's back then though. I think is was a 908 or 608 or something...wish I still had it!!!
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I never played bass through one, but my old band used four of the Bose 802 speakers for mains (8 x 4 1/2" speakers per cab).
 

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