Double Bass Weird room sound

[bolo]

Okay. I found out where I read about the rowboat thing.

It's on doublebassguide.com, and it's called "Playing without amplification? Acoustic hints from an old-timer by Donald F. Carrigan, Gloucester, MA, USA".

Scroll down to the bottom of this page:

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Interesting read. Even if you like your amp.

Thanks Jonas, and Mr. Carrigan!

 

[mje]

...Say I put my cab really close up against the back wall of the stage. Say there's no curtain, and this wall is basically a plain old hard reflective surface. As I said before, with my cab close to the wall like this, in most cases I think I sense a nice full sound with plenty of low end.

Now do you think I am getting a "truer" sound from my cab because I've cut down on unwanted reflections as you outlined in your post?...

That's it exactly. As you move the cabinet away from the reflective surface, you start to get cancellation and reinforcement at various frequencies, and the effect will vary depnding on where the listener is sitting.

 

[bolo]

That's it exactly. As you move the cabinet away from the reflective surface, you start to get cancellation and reinforcement at various frequencies, and the effect will vary depnding on where the listener is sitting.

Okay, it made sense the first time you said it too. Duh. Thanks.

[ For clarification, I'm not talking about a cab w/ ports on the rear or sides in this example. ]

I think I had observed that moving my cabinet close to a back wall tended to bring out more low bass.

But maybe what you're saying is that the perceived low end boost is actually more like what the speaker was designed to sound like in the first place ... because I'm hearing less unwanted reflections.

Perhaps?

 

[mje]

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But maybe what you're saying is that the perceived low end boost is actually more like what the speaker was designed to sound like in the first place ... because I'm hearing less unwanted reflections.
Perhaps?

Pretty much.

Check out this:

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and this:

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