Excuse me, but what's the deal with "going very low"? Are you playing bass or watching Transformers on your home-theater?
Who in the whole world would want a boomy fest sucking up everything it encounters?
Sorry, I just don't get it...
You obviously (as others have pointed out) don't get it at all. Do you know what low frequencies actually sound like? I don't think you do. They don't boom. Mid-bass booms. Schroeders boom. A fEARful will not boom unless you eq your amp that way on purpose. They don't need to go "very low". They need to reproduce what I want. If I roll off the tone and play my low B, I still want to hear the pitch, even with the rest of the band playing. I can do that with my fEARful, and I haven't been able to with most other cabinets.
Keep in mind, fEARfuls don't have huge exaggerated low bass. If you heard my cabinet, you probably would not think "that's a bassy-sounding cabinet". You would probably instead think "that's a very clear, present, and solid sounding cabinet".
What are you guys playing? Synth bass hip-hop style earth-shaking sub 30hz headache inducing frequencies? Most bass cabs have too much bass already. It's in the richness of the low-mids that our instrument shines.
Most cabinets for bass guitar don't actually reproduce much low bass at all, they have a LOT of mid-bass or low mids. If you've never heard good strong lows, you can't make a judgement on what you THINK they would sound like. It doesn't sound like cranking the bass control on a bass-shy speaker.
I generally play mostly on the bridge pickup, and have a very mid-present and fat sound. But I also have a good amount of fundamental in the note (NOT boomy, just enough). If I want less lows, I can eq them out. I can also quickly switch to a huge dub sound, rolling the tone all the way off on my neck pickup and playing over the fingerboard. And you know what? I can still clearly and cleanly hear each note all the way down the B string. Can other cabinets do all this? I'm sure some can. But the ones I have tried (Acoustic, Markbass, SWR, GK, Peavey, Eden, Schroeder, Crate, Ampeg, Fender, EV, Bag End, Aguilar, etc... ) don't do it as well FOR ME.
I don't have a dog on this fight nor have tried them myself. Just asking questions and trying to understand the hype. That's all...
Really? You've never heard one and yet you keep implying negative things about both the speakers and the people that like them.
MarthaSamira said:
Just throwing it out there: A tiny 12am will blow a 12" fEARful out of the water any day of the week, even if it's not a bass cab. Of course, I'm teasing ya'll, since I haven't heard the fEARfuls yet...
There you go.
I'd love to hear some of you fEARful owners comment on the comparison of Acme vs fEARful. Given already that the Acme's are low efficiency cabs and are not loud.
Acme's are much more bottom-heavy. Too much of a good thing for me. Too soft in the mids. fEARfuls are much more balanced, much more efficient, and can get much louder.
Honestly? Reading the whole feeling I get a gut feeling that this is more hype than truth and I can sense that there's a bunch of fEARful lovers that haven't ever heard one.
In music gear, most times we see trends like this that seem too good to be true, are too good to be true...
fEARfuls are not too good to be true, and they don't claim to break any laws of physics. They just try to optimize within certain parameters (low-frequency reproduction, weight, efficiency, dispersion, etc.). That's why people quote specs. So you can know what you are getting, and what you are not.
I also think that most people that are saying it's all hype haven't heard one. I have, and while it's not the perfect cabinet, it comes closer than anything else I personally have tried so far.
So Martha... Where are you located? Again, pretty much every fEARful owner would be glad to let you listen and judge for yourself. And if you don't like it, no problem. But why judge it without hearing?
