GremlinAndy

[quote name='Meenie' post='945070' date='Sep 3 2010, 11:35 PM']I'm putting my Trace Elliot 4x10 up for sale on Ebay this weekend but it has no plate on it telling me the Ohms or Output. People are gonna want to know these things obviously. I know there is/was a website somewhere with loads of old Trace stuff and the specs but i cant seem to find it. Any help would be much appreciated. Its a mid nineties one, cube shaped with the red stripes across the front in between the top and bottom pairs of speakers if that helps? Thats all i have to go on.[/quote] well, are you sure the speakers in it are original? The best way would be to take a look inside and work out the ohms from what it says on the labels, and how they're wired. There's plenty of material which explains that, and it's fairly straightforward really... If you don't know the history of the cab, it's the only way you can be sure. I hope that's helpful buddy.

[quote name='Muzz' post='934154' date='Aug 23 2010, 08:45 PM']Oh my Lord - [i]2[/i] x 1515Ls? I thoughtI had enough headroom to kill small animals with one...are they 8 ohm or 4? What are you driving them with? +about a zillion on their rock credentials, size, and weight - I even had the guitarist offering to carry mine from the van at the last gig...[/quote] They are 4 ohm each. I use a powersoft Digam 3002 which gives 1500 watt at 2ohm each side. (I also have 2x 21012L's too, and they are awesome. But right now I'm preferring the older school (no tweeter) sound of the 15s.)

I recently tried out a small but powerful PA/powered monitor by Dynacord. It was *VERY* impressive. It was a better sounding active cab than any of the other gear I got to try out, but here's the downside. ...It was 3 times the price of the others. I dunno about this particular amp, but if the price is right, I'd have no worries buying it myself, based on my limited experience of the brand. I hope that helps...

[quote name='thumperbob 2002' post='591530' date='Sep 6 2009, 05:41 PM']Heres my 1212L and 1515L schroeder rig- Marshall Amp is hardly lightweight but my Markbass does great with either cab- just not both of them as they go to 2 ohms- 4 ohms each [attachment=32313:schroeder_rig_1.jpg] [attachment=32314:Schroeder_rig_2.jpg] Best sound ever- and I can carry each cab at once!! Bob[/quote] The other day I used my 2 1515L's stacked on their side, to create as close to a vertical stack as Schro's allow do, with their 2nd angled speaker, and they were truly astounding for the rock music I was playing (Thumb bass through a Sans Amp for the grind.) The sound was awesome and I had more room for volume than you can even imagine. For dirty rock they were better than my 2x 21012L's which have more clear top end (The 1515L's have no tweeter in them but for the rock stuff, they sounded great) I personally reccommend Schroeder (I also own an Epi 310, and 212, which are FANTASTIC cabs, but for volume, size and weight, the Schro's win easily (It's hard to imagine they contain *2* 15's because they aren't any bigger than most 1x15's and are smaller than some compact 15's)) But you should try them out before you buy. As has been stated on here often, your preferred tone is very personal thing.

[quote name='jensenmann' post='893006' date='Jul 12 2010, 05:51 PM']Yuk, stay away from this one. I´d better use no compression than an Alesis. Get a dbx160 A (or X or XT) and you´re done. You can´t dial in any bad sounding settings (in opposite to a Distressor or 1176) because it´s an automatic comp. Best bang for the buck on pro level. If you want to sink serious money into a compressor get any LA2A, LA3A, LA4, 1176 or Distressor. But mind that more knobs mean more control mean more can be dialed in wrong.[/quote] I think I'd agree with that post wholeheartedly. As I mentioned earlier, I have a Distressor and it did take me a while to find out how it worked to best effect. It took enough rehearsals before I got it right that I nearly decided to get shut... I'm glad I didn't, and in fairness, now I know how it all works, it's fairly easy to use. However an automatic compression would be a more immediate solution. But steer away from the cheapest of cheaps. I reckon they probably rob you of more than they give you. *that was my experience anyway*

I too have the Distressor. It's the only compressor I've ever got on with. I was trying over and again to find why people swear by compressors... as all they apperaed to do was as stated above, take away dynamics. But now I find that the settings I'm using on the Distressor give me no loss of dynamics, and it's barely even there, but it does just tidy up my playing a little. (it's no substitute for perfect fingering tho, ...but then I'm far from perfect.) The key for me is to have so little noticable compression that I can forget it's there. Mind you £1000 plus, is a lot of money to have something in the chain which I can't detect 99.999% of the time, I guess. All other compressors I tried were basically, pants tho.

Ah but you're a bassist.... Gods own instrument of choice!

Bump cos I added the link to the vids, in the first post...

[quote name='cetera' post='846330' date='May 24 2010, 10:50 AM']Sorry to hear your keyboard player is leaving mate! All the best for finding a suitable replacement asap! [/quote] Yep it's a shame, but he's a busy guy, with a young family and now we're starting to actually take gigs he's finding it too hard to commit. These things happen. Gigging sorts out the men from the boys as it were. lol.