Who has the most Hellishly Obnoxious rig?

[Wasnex]

Old farts reacting to Jucifer's live rig have made this thread entertaining.

I probably qualify as an oldish fart...IMHO, as a rig it's awesome exclusively for it's excess. I doubt such a random hodge podge of mismatched cabs could possibly produce sonic qualities I would appreciate. Thesaurus.Com says discord is an antonym for synergy..."Sonic Discord"...now there's a nice ironic name for a band that might be up for grabs.

Some of the individual cabinets are probably worthy of drool. YMMV

 

[FrenchBassQC]

I can't imagine most of that rig being in during a show. What would even be the point? I'll bet you five bucks more than half of that rig is for looks only.....maybe even all of it. Most pro bands are all in-ears anyway. There's most likely a sweet preamp going into the board while the audience is going crazy over the "killer bass rig".

Probably like this:

 

[Mr. Foxen]

There's an entire scene of bands like Jucifer that use all the giant backline. Regardless of how much people smugly declare they don't.

Plus more outside that scene


My stuff is relatively sensible.

 

[Bander]

Maybe when I find two more matching rigs, Yea!:

 

[trevcda]

I don't have a picture (it was 40 years ago). I built a rig with 4x JBL 4530 bottoms, 2x JBL 4560 mids, and 4 JBL bullet tweeters. It was powered by an Alembic pre-amp, a Yamaha crossover, and 4x Yamaha power amps.
It was hard to hear on stage, but quite remarkable at 60-100 feet.
I still have a pair of THESE deep in the recesses of my warehouse. They were given to me for parts. My guess is they weigh 120lbs. each. Maybe I'll stack em up with my SVT!!

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I used to use a pair of the 415SUB cabs from that same line, along with a rack of Carver PM1200 amps. It's so hellishly obnoxious that I had to composite it from two pictures to get it in here!

 

[Mr. Foxen]

Oh, here's a good one, all that stuff running, including A cameo by @Ampstack.

 

[dukey donkey]

Bridesmaid was the loudest bar show I've been to... louder than Jucifer… 2 bassists. They killed it, and at least they handed out earplugs lol...

 

[dukey donkey]

 

[okcrum]

I don't have a picture (it was 40 years ago). I built a rig with 4x JBL 4530 bottoms, 2x JBL 4560 mids, and 4 JBL bullet tweeters. It was powered by an Alembic pre-amp, a Yamaha crossover, and 4x Yamaha power amps.
It was hard to hear on stage, but quite remarkable at 60-100 feet.
I still have a pair of THESE deep in the recesses of my warehouse. They were given to me for parts. My guess is they weigh 120lbs. each. Maybe I'll stack em up with my SVT!!

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The Paula Walla Sound

 

[two fingers]

That says more about the state of live music than it does the band you're being snarky towards.

Probably says something about both.

 

[okcrum]

Bridesmaid was the loudest bar show I've been to... louder than Jucifer… 2 bassists. They killed it, and at least they handed out earplugs lol...

These two bands are like night and day, as musicality goes.

 

[Gougedeye]

Oh, it’s all used. Pony up your 5 bucks.

Is that an example of their music?

 

[Microbass]

Deep Purple has a pretty wild set up back in the day. At least they sounded good!

 

[callofcthulhu]

Fairly reasonable compared to Juicifer, but I played with this band Lament Cityscape and their bass player had an 810, vertical 412, and square 412, each driven by its own power amp. Guitar was also using a dual amp rig.

It was so loud that if the sound guy put any guitar or bass into the PA it would start feeding back (this was at a ~300 person club with an appropriate sized PA for the room).

 

[callofcthulhu]

Ah. Playing 120 max capacity venues. I guess that passes for "touring" these days.

Uh, they've currently got 26 dates booked across Europe in 2019.

They had what looks like close to 100 dates by my count in 2017 spread across both Europe and the continental US.

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In what sense are they not "touring"?

 

[Downunderwonder]

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Too pretty.

 

[Passinwind]

Ah. Playing 120 max capacity venues. I guess that passes for "touring" these days.

It always has, even for many types of world class acts. What are you on about?

 

[jshinal]

As one of the earlier posters mentioned, bass speaker performance is about physics.

A single 18" speaker has a surface area of about 255 square inches. Four tens have a combined area of about 315 square inches. If their efficiency (loudness per watt used) is equal, the tens will move a bigger block of air than the 18 will.

An 18" cone is fairly thick and heavy. It''s harder to start and stop at the end of each vibration when it's making a tone. A 10" cone is fairly thin and lighter by comparison. It starts and stops more accurately at the end of each in-out movement when it's making a tone. These things make the 10" generally more efficient if compared to the 18 because it's not losing energy at the start/stop point of each sound wave.

Ideally you want high efficiency (deciBels per watt), lots of surface area (this is what's pushing the air), and the ability to cleanly reproduce low frequencies (32Hz for low B or 42 Hz for low E).

 

[sikamikanico]

Oh, it’s all used. Pony up your 5 bucks.

Ha, I'm sure the roadies wish they were unionized

What I find surprising in most of the recordings of these bands here is the thin sound they end up getting...

 

[Lobster11]

Old farts reacting to Jucifer's live rig have made this thread entertaining.

You have officially become your father and grandfather.

Are you referring to the old farts who think it is ridiculous to use a rig like that in a small room, or the ones who think it looks like a toy in comparison to the Grateful Dead's "Wall of Sound" from the 1970s?

BTW, after watching the video I'm not going to say something dad-like about it sounding like noise. I actually listen to a lot of stuff that many people might describe as noise. I'm just gonna say, "Sorry, I'm not that angry."

 

[two fingers]

It always has, even for many types of world class acts. What are you on about? View attachment 3263089

Apparently offending everyone by cracking jokes about a band and a guitar rig that is IN MY VIEW utterly ridiculous.