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Double Bass What is your favorite cab for your upright

#61
Bassist30 said:
audiokinesis TC12AF. It will be all you need in a cabinet.
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To be sure, one of the best upright cabs ever made. All you will ever need in a cabinet? Thats subjective at best and misleading at worst. Some disagree, but for just a couple bucks more you can get a TC115AF, which is more versatile and goes louder, and lower, when needed. Did many upright gigs on that cab before I switched to greenboy cabs. amazing from the quietest gigs up to some fairly loud ones. Not that the TC112 isn't great. It is, but it would not be all you would ever need for everyone...just sayin' :)
 
#62
dukeorock said:
To be sure, one of the best upright cabs ever made. All you will ever need in a cabinet? Thats subjective at best and misleading at worst. Some disagree, but for just a couple bucks more you can get a TC115AF, which is more versatile and goes louder, and lower, when needed. Did many upright gigs on that cab before I switched to greenboy cabs. amazing from the quietest gigs up to some fairly loud ones. Not that the TC112 isn't great. It is, but it would not be all you would ever need for everyone...just sayin' :)
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Over many years of playing DB through a lot of different cabinets, like a Ampeg B-15NC, a GK 200MB, A Baby Blue 2x8, A pair of Flite Sound 2x8's, a VL 208, and a LDS 2x8 Three Way, the Thunderchild 112, even without the AF option is a exceptional sounding cabinet, and works perfectly for my needs. I've definitely considered the TC 115, but it puts me back at the 40 pound range, which frankly is heavy. If I were playing louder gigs though it would probably be the one I bought next. So, if weight is a factor then, the TC 112 may be a better option for some. I think that for a while Neodymium Speaker Cabinets are going to be scarce.
So for now at least, it's the best thing out there for me. Andy Lewis of Acme is bailing on using neodymium drivers. The "shortage" is killing the small cab builders. To my knowledge Euphonic Audio is the only boutique builder left in that market.

Ric
 
#63
Ric Vice said:
So, if weight is a factor then, the TC 112 may be a better option for some. I think that for a while Neodymium Speaker Cabinets are going to be scarce.
So for now at least, it's the best thing out there for me
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Which is all that matters, of course. I was simply pointing out that it wouldn't be the best for everyone, including me...the TC115AF came closer and was, up to that point, the lightest cab I've ever owned. My FEARLESS 112 came in at about 36lbs, which is nice and light for what it is capable of.

Upright bass can appear in many contexts these days...I think I was slightly dismissed as a 'rockabilly' player (whatever that means) earlier in this thread, which is fine, yet not really even true...I wouldn't tell someone what music to like, because I love it all. I will say I have logged more miles and more session hours in a wider variety of styles than most folks, not that it makes me a good player, but it does suggest an opinion that has merit :D
 
#64
I think that for jazz upright playing the TC112 is better than the TC115. A bit punchier and tighter. For me and the sound I use for jazz the Greenboy cabs don't quite do the trick. Upright is like electric---there are many different aesthetics and appropriate sounds. My sound wouldn't work for Mark at all. (Dukeorock) His sound has to serve a very different function. For Latin jazz players a different sound from these would be necessary.

I don't use the TC112 for upright anymore. I found out that I'm not allowed to say which cabs I do use.
 
#69
dukeorock said:
To be sure, one of the best upright cabs ever made. All you will ever need in a cabinet? Thats subjective at best and misleading at worst. Some disagree, but for just a couple bucks more you can get a TC115AF, which is more versatile and goes louder, and lower, when needed. Did many upright gigs on that cab before I switched to greenboy cabs. amazing from the quietest gigs up to some fairly loud ones. Not that the TC112 isn't great. It is, but it would not be all you would ever need for everyone...just sayin' :)
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I still think for Jazz the TC12AF is the best sounding cab for that. My opinion and everybody's opinion is subjective and would not say it to be misleading.
 
#76
The last upright gig I did (outside at a place called the Olive Mill in Queen Creek AZ), I was using a GB Shuttle sitting on a Schroeder 15+L.

I know a lot has been said about the incorrectness of the Schroeder, no low end, etc etc. Well, my experience was that the 15+L did the yin-yang perfectly with the upright, which tends to be a little muddy in the mix anyhow. The result was the perfect growly woody sound that I go for; good clarity, punchy, and plenty of lows for me.

I don't use Spirocores. I think I have Weich's on the bass I do Jazz gigs with, because they work a bit better bowing for me.

Anyhow, I'm no expert, but the 15+L produced the best upright tone in the mix I've had over the years.
 
#78
drurb said:
:confused: Weichs of what brand and type?
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The bass is a 5/8 carved Messel which I picked up at Elderly Instruments in Lansing MI some years back. I don't tend to change my strings on upright at all if they sound good; and the strings on this bass do have a good balance of pizz and arco. Anyhow, at one point I had the bass in to Steve Reilly for some work on the endpoint and he commented on how nice the tone was. I asked him what the heck the strings were; and he said they appeared to be Thomastic Weichs, which I gather are a more "woody" sounding string than the Spirocores. So, that's what I know. Hope that answers the question.
 
#79
FYI, Thomastik makes Spirocores and weich is their designation for light/soft strings so they could be Spirocore Weichs? If they have purple silks at peg end and red silks at ball end, they are Spiro weichs

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