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I’m in general not that concerned with speaker sizes but a few years back used an Ashdown 2x15 and it was really good, in fact it was using that cab that made me switch to Ashdown gear.

Very much this. Get your gear off stage quickly and break it down out of the way of the band trying to get on. The number of times drummers try to put cymbals and snare into cases on stage is maddening!

I may be able to help with the lift Not literally of course, and you may not thank me. It involves another build. I enjoyed playing around with my 15 and the Bash coincided with a couple of people asking for a 15" design. So... I've quietly adapted the design I have to be an 'Easy Build' project and when the drawings are ready it will be good to go. It weighs in at around 14kg at the moment which for me is a one handed carry.

Yep. Check out Barbara Dennerlein, too. Amazing bass pedal work.

Also depends on the position of the listener or measuring point, hence my original post.

Hi all, We’ve recently got 2x RCF Evox J8s and they seem fine for typical indoor pub gigs. We’re putting vox, keys and kick through them, plus lower level bass/gtr (we have backline gtr/bass cabs too) We have a few outdoor gigs next year and I’m wondering if the J8s will be enough. Has anyone tried adding extra speakers? We have some old powered 12s. I’m thinking we could use them like monitor wedges on the floor, but facing the audience not us (we use IEMs so don’t need floor monitors). Has anyone done anything like this before? Thanks!

Exactly 😆 There's a song by Dylan, I forget which one, and it has the most awful dissonance at one point - it's in a sax solo - to the point that it makes my teeth hurt! My bandmate's can't hear it, or more to the point, it isn't dissonant to them. Brains are funny things

Oh yes, an amp with brushed aluminium face sounds brighter and harsher than its sibling with black face. Don't ever make a unit that is brown!

Cabinet: on the floor +3 dB (one plane) against the wall +6 dB (two planes) in the corner +9 dB (three planes) Room dimensions usually amplify certain frequencies, see: standing waves. Depending on the placement of the cab, and materials some frequencies may be attenuated, too. Use an RTA to analyze the space and the response.

At last we see it! Well done.

Incredibly, yesterday I called up Bass Direct and they assured me they had some in stock, I ordered one and it just arrived today as promised. Colour me impressed! Thomann still can't guarantee a delivery date after having been paid for the pedal two months ago - they just agreed to process the refund. Now to get to grips with the pedal!

It takes some experimenting, but I've done just that. I built thus scope, Including the focuser, around an ED lens cell. Won a silver medal for it

I always put a small amount of reverb through the iem feeds. It adds an extra dimension that really helps the bass sit in the mix.

Mush

BTW it has NOT been explained, sensation and perception are a major player in audio, what happens inside the skull can be as important as what goes on outside it.

Some people don’t like sunburst finishes, some do 👍

Even after it's been explained, people are still saying they prefer something which has no bearing on the sound. . . . a speaker size!!!

The low end can definitely change with cab position. Put it 4' from the wall and your lows will be much diminished by the reflected bass coming back out of synch. True. 12" is close enough that the reflection adds to the cab.

Noticed Andertons now have stock. My Amazon order is due on Thursday so I’ll stick with that.

Good to know that there may be little smell. I also looked at speaker grills and spent a long time thinking through how to print one in four pieces and join it together using superglue, a special jig and all sorts of hard work until a rare bout of common sense broke out. Previously people had mentioned using an 18" speaker grill and cutting it down. I've just checked the sizes for this against the 8" speaker cab and of course when you lay it out, they were right and I was surprised (and wrong). The dashed straight lines show the inside of the 8" speaker cab, the large dashed circle is the cutaway for the Fane speaker and the small dashed circle is the port. The large solid circle is an 18" speaker grille and the smaller solid circle is a 300mm speaker grille. So the 18" speaker grille is pretty much a perfect fit, though it will need cutting down and flattening, though I can't see that being a major issue with a rubber hammer, a Dremel and a decent cutting wheel (or rather a few of them). For circa £10 per grille, this is a very cheap way to get a grille plus an hour or so of cutting. The other option is a small bit of rectangular hardboard with two large circles cut out with some speaker cloth which still might look nice. This is the speaker lightly sanded with some filler and the corners checked for fit. These will actually be glued on with "No Nail" rather than screwed. A little more sanding just to tidy up the front. You can just about see the t-nuts inside on the back for holding the Warwick Gnome on using slider rails. There are the same fittings on the top so the Warwick can be on the top or the back. There are holes on the side for grab handles. I don't use a strap for picking it up as I wanted the Warwick to have the option of top mounting as well as back mounting. Not sure I can paint it until I have worked out the speaker grille and how to fit it so I can easily take it on and off. I'm tending to think I mask off the corner piece areas before the Aracab goes on but would welcome thoughts.

Your term "deeper" most likely needs some definition. A good system even today costs some money. An ELF, and a 2x8" is most likely not suitable in a bigger venue without the help of a PA. First of all, the system (cabinet + X-over + elements) has to be designed and made well. I have seen many combos/cabs throughout the years that have been mediocre at best. If the system is designed for bassist, it has to deliver some kind of response from around 60 Hz up to around 4 kHz (you don't get much higher frequencies from an ordinary coil-magnet pickup). You want extra bass through subs, fine. How big are they, how much do they weigh, and how high the response goes? If you can and want to carry such a system (subs + bass), you can do that but how feasible is that? 31 Hz is very low, therefore your subs need minimum of 2 kW power on top of that 500 W bass amp. Is the venue so big that you get any benefit from a system that goes down to 31 Hz? Will everything sound messy and mushy? Subs have a very limited response. There are some elements that happen to be big, but as said, very limited. If you start the cab design from an 18", you most likely need a ten, and a tweeter to the cab. Have you ever carried such a monster to a stage? TE 1818X was just terrible. Is the answer to you an equalizer, or a better system, I don't know, but the size of an element will not answer to your need of "deeper".