why no sEALed fEARfuls???

[rpsands]

If my guitarist used an octaver, I would go insane.

Heh, it's a surprisingly common effect. Our guitarist uses it in a couple pod patches, sounds great. Just a matter of being tasteful with it. When you're chugging away in unison it can make it feel much heavier (kinda like another guitard.

We're a 3-piece though.

 

[JimmyM]

I like octavers a lot. The thing I like about them the most is that if you ever need a synthy tone, turn it on with octave down only, add some distortion to it, some envelope if you've got it, and instant synth fake. But mostly I use them to imitate 8-string bass in a couple songs or to fatten up songs with Hollywood endings.

 

[Korladis]

Heh, it's a surprisingly common effect. Our guitarist uses it in a couple pod patches, sounds great. Just a matter of being tasteful with it. When you're chugging away in unison it can make it feel much heavier (kinda like another guitard.

We're a 3-piece though.

With my main band, we don't do that much chugging in unison. It would clash quite a bit. Thankfully, I think an octaver would be close to the last thing my guitarist would want to use, as he doesn't like effects that muddy up his gigantic chords.

 

[Arjank]

A fully open back operates as an OB of course, but few 'open back' guitar or bass combos are truly open back. Determining whether or not a cab operates as a VB or OB is simple, a VB will show a secondary impedance peak above Fb, an OB will not. The secondary impedance peak with most open back cabs is very small, often only a few ohms higher than the driver raw impedance, but it is there.

I allready made the difference between fully open-back and partially open.
I know it's visable in the impedance plot, nothing new.
An fully open back cab can still start to function as a transmissionline, but like I said earlier in this thread it will depend on the cabs depth and width.