What's Your Stereo Rig?

[Spectrum]

This is my Ric-O-Sound rig.

Neck pickup: Ampeg pf500/pf210he
Bridge pickup: Vox Night Train 15W tube guitar head into Ampeg Micro-CL 210

Despite the low wattage of the Vox, that side of the rig gets adequately loud enough for most of the smallish venues we play and gets mic'd up for bigger ones. If stage space or setup time becomes an issue, I just fall back on the Portaflex rig and run mono with a Darkglass b3k for some dirt.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Very nice! Nothing like ROS!

 

[mapleglo]

Ric-o-sound rocks! I wish my 5 string had it. Perhaps at some point, I'll add it.

 

[Will_White]

Not in a very long time.

How'd they work? I had the thought to do a 315 cab (or 215/115 stack) with the 2 bass speakers ported and the guitar speaker open back.

 

[StereoPlayer]

How'd they work? I had the thought to do a 315 cab (or 215/115 stack) with 2 ported and the guitar speaker open back.

Thin sounding, afraid to turn them up. Would probably work for the treble PU at a reasonable volume.

It really depends on the speaker specs. Electro Voice 15L’s would work great!

 

[Will_White]

Thin sounding, afraid to turn them up. Would probably work for the treble PU at a reasonable volume.

It really depends on the speaker specs. Electro Voice 15L’s would work great!

I was thinking an emminance legend or big Ben

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[StereoPlayer]

Thin sounding, afraid to turn them up. Would probably work for the treble PU at a reasonable volume.

It really depends on the speaker specs. Electro Voice 15L’s would work great!

I was thinking an emminance legend or big Ben

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@agedhorse is the man, he’ll set you straight. He wants to use them in an open back cab. See above.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Crappie close up of my ros heads.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Now here would be a GREAT ROS system!

 

[mapleglo]

Now here would be a GREAT ROS system!
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Yeah, as long as someone else had to move it!

 

[StereoPlayer]

You/we can do eet!

We’re both born in ‘56, retired.
I can do it. But wouldn’t like it very much.....

 

[rjmsteel]

My Stereo Rig from a summer ago. Alembic going Stereo playing nice with Aguilar and Crown amps.

Current reduced system now is my 15/6/1 (or the TC212) and the GS112 with 1 micro head, the superfilter and power supply in a small rack powering the 1st cab; and a 2nd micro head for the other Cab; instead of the power amp/ effects rack which was overkill.

 

[Downunderwonder]

How do you stereo heads get out to FOH?

 

[StereoPlayer]

How do you stereo heads get out to FOH?

It hasn’t been a prob with me too much, small clubs.
But the times it has happened....buy the FOH a drink, maybe even a tip is in order...
I had an altercation with the sound guy once....he saw my amps...had a fit..
I said I don’t need the FOH....

 

[Omega Monkey]

I finally had a chance to try this out the other day...

Carvin LB76 into the Genz ShuttleMax 9.2 preamp, then out from the loop into a Line 6 M9 with various stuff going on (phaser, stereo delay, reverb, filter, etc...). Out of the M9 stereo outputs into the ART SLA-4, which is bridged in pairs (it's a 4 channel amp) sent to each Uber Quad. 280w x2. It was plenty loud enough in my apartment for just fooling around. Sounded pretty cool with lots of very expansive sounds (and I just got the M9, so I'm still learning how to get the most out of it). Next step is to try it in a 3 or 4 way setup, adding a crossover, single 18, and maybe a guitar cab.

As shown in the picture, it's relatively practical for a band, but more ideally suited for a solo 6 string thing. Biamped and stereo with the extra 2 cabs and more amps and whatnot, it would be COMPLETELY impractical, but probably sound amazing.

 

[Will_White]

What is the wattage/ cone area difference for those of you running a treble amp and a bass amp setup?

I was thinking of getting an Orange Micro Dark (20 watt) for the treble amp with either a 1x15 or 2x12 guitar cab, and my 250 watt 1x15 combo for the bass.

 

[Omega Monkey]

A single 10 or 12 with 20 tube watts should be plenty to match with 250w and a 15. I wouldn't use a 15 for the highs unless you were going to use a very wide range 15 like a JBL or EVM for the highs and a serious high powered sub 15 (ie 3015LF, etc...) for the low lows.

Just for reference, for the hell of it, I'm probably going to be fooling around with biamping soon, and for convenience (because that's what's already at the practice space), it will be an SVT CL and 18e for the lows, with a ShuttleMax 9.2 and 410T XB for the highs (from about 100 Hz or so). But if I cross over that 500w 4x10 at 100 Hz, it will be barely on. So my STL 210T and 300w on top would likely be plenty. Or a 50w tube amp and 2 guitar 12s if I just wanted a dirty (or more vintage tweeterless) sound all the time.

The higher you cross over, the less power you need on top and vice versa. If you're just using the EQ on the amps to dial out the other side, it gets a little imprecise, but as long as you roll off a lot of the lows in the treble side, you won't need much power or cone area.

 

[Will_White]

A single 10 or 12 with 20 tube watts should be plenty to match with 250w and a 15. I wouldn't use a 15 for the highs unless you were going to use a very wide range 15 like a JBL or EVM for the highs and a serious high powered sub 15 (ie 3015LF, etc...) for the low lows.

Just for reference, for the hell of it, I'm probably going to be fooling around with biamping soon, and for convenience (because that's what's already at the practice space), it will be an SVT CL and 18e for the lows, with a ShuttleMax 9.2 and 410T XB for the highs (from about 100 Hz or so). But if I cross over that 500w 4x10 at 100 Hz, it will be barely on. So my STL 210T and 300w on top would likely be plenty. Or a 50w tube amp and 2 guitar 12s if I just wanted a dirty (or more vintage tweeterless) sound all the time.

The higher you cross over, the less power you need on top and vice versa. If you're just using the EQ on the amps to dial out the other side, it gets a little imprecise, but as long as you roll off a lot of the lows in the treble side, you won't need much power or cone area.

Yeah I'm thinking about how to do this cheap and without buying twice. I'm currently building a baritone guitarish instrument that could use the guitar head and speaker cab as well. If this experiment goes well I plan on building a 1 or 2 18 bass cab.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Yeah I'm thinking about how to do this cheap and without buying twice. I'm currently building a baritone guitarish instrument that could use the guitar head and speaker cab as well. If this experiment goes well I plan on building a 1 or 2 18 bass cab.

Love 18’s

 

[mc_waller]

1 Kemper Rack and 1 5he Rack for stomps and Processing. Couldn't be happier. Mixing of Hardware Sound and Software Stereo effects.
If you wanna hear it, search "BETAMENSCH Sessions" in YouTube. For example

Mono Sound preset in Verse, big Stereo Sound with reverb in the Chorus. Only a bit of EQing while mixing. Works well in our Situation, wired Up pretty fast und Transport is No Problem.