Bill Fitzmaurice

In the '60s Fender ruled the US and Canada. If you could afford Fender that's what you had. Traynor was one of the second tier brands, an alternate to Fender for the less well heeled. Traynor was essentially a Fender knock off and sounded just as good, or bad in the case of electric bass. Sunn was the bass rig of choice when it came along.

That depends on the speaker. If it has a tweeter and you use it put the mic close to but not directly on the tweeter axis. If not put it close to but not directly on the axis of one of the woofers.

I don't know. If the cab is always vertical there's no need for it.

The crossover frequency should remain constant. I would think that since it's intended for vertical placement that all three woofers would be full range. BTW, in the 210/410/610 all the drivers receive bass content. Half of them are low passed, so those don't receive upper mids and highs. It's what's known as an x.5 alignment. I mentioned it to Alex nearly 20 years ago as being how all 410s, 610s and 810s should be run. He obviously took my advice.

Acoustic Control Corporation 126 combo. The distortion may be the driver being pushed too hard, causing it to exceed it's mechanical limit. It also could be a sign that the driver is damaged.

It could mean the degree of attenuation, though that would be unconventional to say the least.

I'm hip, but the result on those stages will be the same no matter where the port is placed.

The port location doesn't matter. Dispersion of sound waves from ports, and from the cones as well below roughly 250Hz, is omnidirectional.

If I was Canadian I'd be looking at Traynor/Yorkville.

I would but that's out of my range for a weekend trip, which is as long as I can be away from home. If you haven't hit the Comedy or Jazz festivals in Montreal you need to add those to your list.

It's not just the area, it's the roads. In GB you can hardly drive more than 10 miles between roads. In most of Canada you can drive 100 miles between intersections, if there are roads at all. Nunavit province is mostly islands that can only be reached by boat or airplane. At 800,000 square miles it alone is ten times the size of Great Britain, yet has a population less than 40,000.

It's not bad, certainly no worse than any major American city, better than New York. When I get there the car stays parked, I either walk or take the Metro.

Big to say the least, but 90% of the population of Canada lives within 100 miles of the US border. Montreal is only a five hour drive from me; I visit there pretty much every summer. Another hour north and you're in the middle of nowhere. For the most part it's miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles.

+1. Some 90% of GB can be driven to from any other place in GB within ten hours. Some 95% of Canada cannot be driven to within ten hours from any other place in Canada. The province of Ontario alone is five times the size of Great Britain.

It would, the reason being that with the BGH-25-8 and the crossover I designed it works down to 2kHz, so you avoid the beaming issue with the woofers. The BGH25-8 also rolls off above 10kHz, where there's no useful content for electric bass. A 3.5kHz tweeter crossover makes perfect sense in a hi-fi speaker with a 6.5 or 8 inch woofer, but not in an electric bass cab.

BTW, if I was to go to the trouble of replacing the tweeter it wouldn't be with either the Peavey or Eminence APT-80. Neither go low enough to reach where the tens are beaming. This thread explains:

I found that, but it's next to worthless. You need a real data sheet, like this: https://eminence.com/collections/eminence-tweeters/products/apt_80#specifications

I can't find any real data on the Peavey Triflex to compare it with the APT-80. I found replacement diaphragms for the APT on Amazon and eBay, but that's the US sites.

It might look cool doing that, but the unplugged 115 will become a passive bass trap. 😲

Periodic cleaning of the jacks is a good idea.

Even at the top tier of touring sound I'd say 90% of FOH engineers don't know how to mix the bass. Most of those who do are also bass players and/or recording engineers.

Yes, I was. Even at 'only' seven pages there's a lot of different topics in this thread. Someone who might have an interest in one of them has to wade through a lot of information he doesn't care about to find what he's after. If this thread gets much longer it's going to need a table of contents.

Yep. What those not in the business don't realize is that both amps and speakers spend a lot of time being Beta tested before they hit the shelves. It's done so that it sounds good out of the box with as little EQ adjustment as possible. The manufacturer of one speaker that I designed took close to a year of Beta testing with dozens of players just to dial in the crossover. 😲 It was worth it, it won numerous new speaker of the year awards, but still that's a lot of testing. Using an FRFR you usually end up using a lot more EQ to get the sound you're after, which means it's not going to be a simple plug and play unless you have an modeling amp or accessory speaker emulating circuit. Think about that. You have an FRFR speaker and then you need an amp or accessory to make it sound like a speaker that's not FRFR. 🤥

For the cleanest sound set the output at full, the gain as high as necessary for the desired level.

Agreed, specific questions should be posted in individual threads, just as in the amps & cabs section.