Downunderwonder

I believe you now require supporting membership or must refrain from endorsing.

Surely everyone will calm the hell down now that tracking shows the actual delivery.

I heard a school trad rock ensemble group playing in the park. It sounded entirely novel to my ears. And very listenable. I was astonished. So there is hope.

Once upon a time a renowned US bassist had some time to kill and he recorded tracks off a loop pedal. The all tube DI was his goto for putting in front of his stage Ampeg in lieu of a mic. He reckoned it was pukka Ampeg coming from the PA so long as they didn't mess with it. Up against the tube DI was a Sansamp VT. He EQ'd the Sansamp to sound just like the DI. Then he recorded the same loops through each with leveled signals. Only three quarters of those brave enough to try to discern the fake tubes from real tubes got it right. There was a 50/50 chance to get it right without even listening to the tracks! The bassist was no mathematician and persisted to claim 75% could tell real tubes from emulation. Statistically 75% is not very flash at all. Perhaps a real mathematician could say how flash. My intuitive maths: If you had an eight sided die and it was half ones and half twos you get 50% random. If you skillfully cover two ones with twos you get 75% twos. So 1/4 of the bassists who answered had actual skill in detecting tubes?

Nah. You need the Compact for the in between size. You know, the one, slightly rowdy rehearsal with the drummer who gets excited. You could also get a wild hair on and take up jazz. You can't take a 310 without frightening the locals.

The cab with the 8 ohm impedance could easily be much more sensitive. In that case you would have to use more amp power to get the same volume from the 4 ohm cab even though the knob position said otherwise. I once plugged in an old 15 and a 12 of the modern uber variety, both 8 ohm. Couldn't hear a peep out of the uber cab because of the sensitivity deficit.

At least they now appear available at Kala US when they were not for the last three or four months. Hopefully they show up here sometime.

Yeah. Tried all sources. Nobody had any in stock on click through. Tried your link. Clicked the shop locally link. Not in stock.

Houston, I can't hear you. I think you should consider what you would have told the 20 year old you who was embarking on a gig with a 1x10 combo. Things have changed. The new tech is really something, but then you go and try to conquer Russia and find out the real story.

Anything that can be played disco can be played funky. I once heard a cover band who played the whole set funky. You haven't lived until you heard The Beatles funkified.

Where all the "vintage" ubassers at?

Bill's subs are folded horns. Think brass tuba but made from plywood and one dimensional expansion instead of two. Like the brass tuba a vast amount of low frequency is generated from a relatively small engine compared to what the engine can do into free air. The driver is inside a spring chamber so it deliberately resonates but in a controlled manner in the passband. Woe if you try to make a frequency that is too low. It behaves the same as a regular ported sub would with the same driver. Uncontrolled flapping but not very audible back around multiple horn folds so no warning.

Seems that way. What is the closest equivalent to the old Pahoehoe black strings for original Ubass without truss rod? Although they were slippery it was manageable and the tone was fine. I was not impressed with the white Aguilar ones. Too tacky and didn't last long before dry rot set in.

AER

Walter Woods Phil Jones Acoustic Image Ashdown How baked are you?

The odd two cabs can be plugged in all in parallel with the 810 and you get your 2 ohms of doom. I wouldn't want.to be in the same room but you do you. Assuming you have a mono amp and it isn't two channels of 4 ohm, you can simply daisy parallel from one cab to the next. Better to spread the load off the amp if you can. Still only need three speaker cables. So, twin speakons from amp. One goes to 810 off Amp1 and one to 410 off Amp2 with daisy to the 15. Mind you don't blow the 15. It will be getting the same power as any 4 of the 10's. A quarter of the amp output.

Depends on your tens and the cabinet. Bill used to offer a 210 option on a folded horn that would beat the hell out of most 15 regular subs. Also twice the size. A compact 12 sub could add a little thump to a vocal PA. If deployed under the bass cabinet you risk having bass coming out of the bass cabinet out of phase with the PA bass signal which could get ugly for the bass cabinet. It would take quite a bit of wiring and processing to make the best of it.

MB were quick to mass market the Class D. Consequently they were teaching everyone of the consequences of the whole board replacement maintenance strategy. In the US their representatives let them down. So that's where the internet hate comes from. That, and YELLOW! Sound wise they are a bit oddball. What looks like EQ knobs are filters that have to be fully counterclockwise to have no effect. Big mid scoop baked in. Not intuitive at all. I get a lot of them as supplied backline. It's s easy enough to zero the filters and boost some mids and I am happy.

Played a gig a couple of years ago in a pretty good size pub/ music venue complete with acreage of stage to fit the whole 18 piece band, and dancefloor to match, but still a pub. Stage rig was 410 cab and 1000w amp. My band is used to playing that size as the village hall venues are not a whole lot bigger or smaller. Mainly with vocal PA and drummer with healthy kick. Bass for the band and the room is louder than I would like but it works. Enter soundmonkey with his subs. I turned my bass down and used a lighter and lighter touch, until I was merely brushing the strings, and he would just boost me right back up to blowing up the room, with almost nothing coming from the monitor rig. Same with the kick. The drummer got up and took the mic away. Lucky there was a DI send level on the amp which I cut off and we were back in business with no pop.

One sub on the side just means that side of the room gets stronger bass. Giving it a wall to bounce off means it can get away with less power needed, or the other outcome involving bicycles.

And yet they do because a giant big fat bottom is more desired than anyone would like to admit.

SWR Goliath JR. Eden. Trace Elliot 2x8, punches like a 210. Like they (mostly) said, doesn't matter sonically. Lows are non directional. Could be a proxy for extra width in a vertical cab to have stability and/or avoid muffin top.

More likely 2/3 of 4 ohm rating. I doubt a 2x8 is going to impress though. A pair of them would start to boogie.

If your amp has fx send return you only need a modest powered sub with a HF out to go back to the 112. You can be as loud as you need be.

Used to. Whole band did. Backline was frontline, no vocals. Bass was highpassed ala Fitzmaurice and bit more so the kick sounded like a kick and bass still sounded like bass. One night the sub didn't get hooked up properly. Couldn't figure what was up with the bass at soundcheck. The other cab was highpassed another 10 or 20 hz higher than the bass so that bit was missing. Plugged in the sub and back in business. So the takeaway is, it depends how you roll.