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[quote name='umph' post='726444' date='Jan 27 2010, 03:40 PM']they go deep but weigh a tonne and aren't that loud. There are more practical designs out there if you want deep and small or small and loud[/quote] The weight of the 212 is quoted as 22kg, that's about half of the 4x10 I'm used to carting about so no biggie To be honest, with most cabs I find it's the shape rather than the weight that makes it easy or hard to cart around. Hmm... will have to see if I can find somewhere to try 'em

[quote name='yorick' post='726433' date='Jan 27 2010, 03:28 PM']Rehearsed and gigged the SP210 cab which i own, and to be honest it's phenomenal. The frequency range and volume i can get out of it is awesome.[/quote] Thanks for your quick response, good to hear from someone with first-hand experience I'm looking at the SP212 in particular, did you get to try them all out or did you buy online?

It's strange, every thread I can find regarding Orange's isobaric cabs discusses why they shouldn't be good [i]in theory[/i]. I prefer to judge musical instruments and amplifiers on their actual performance, not on the theory behind them - I stick by the old maxim of 'if it sounds good, it is good' Sadly there's nowhere near me that has the blighters in stock. Has anyone actually given these little beasts a go? I bought a Terror Bass and I love it, so thought it'd be pretty sweet to have a mini Orange stack - if those cabs sound good, that is! They're quite expensive to invest in totally blindly though. You can see my fairly in-depth demo of the Terror Bass here: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-rN4glWmTs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-rN4glWmTs[/url]

Cheers guys. I tried to make the video how I'd like to see an amp demoed, because I get frustrated by the common mistakes people make. Firstly, there is no point in demoing any amp, but particularly a bass one, using only a consumer grade camera's internal mic!! Secondly, I'm looking at videos to hear how an amp sounds, not to see how many notes the demonstrater can play in a short space of time. I'm a rocker at heart and I'd rather hear one note played with emotion than 100 played with none. Seems like a lot of guys on Youtube are there to stroke their own egos, not let the gear speak for itself. In the end, this is a simple, no-nonsense rock amp that demanded a simple, no-nonsense rock demo Thirdly, I do prefer repetition of riffs rather than random noodling, just because it makes it so much easier to be objective about the differences between settings. Anyhow, again, I'm glad you all enjoyed it - and took the time to say so, I appreciate that

[quote name='nottswarwick' post='718768' date='Jan 20 2010, 10:04 AM']Is it a 3 eq SR4?[/quote] Sorry, missed this post! Yeah, it's a 3 EQ - all knobs were on full for this video

[quote name='lozbass' post='718879' date='Jan 20 2010, 12:21 PM']Just thanks - excellent! A really concise, objective and informative review (in fact, a much more useful review than many 'professional' reviews I've seen). More of this would be great on BC (but I suspect most of us don't have the facilities).[/quote] Thanks dude! It's only my second video review, so there's still room for improvement - camera angles, lighting etc could all be better. Also it's weird, I don't ever get self-conscious on stage, but stick a camera in my face and suddenly I'm all nervous! It frustrates me that even famous amp companies don't work on getting proper videos of their products online - more and more of us are buying gear over the internet without being able to try first, and even really bad videos get thousands of hits because people are desperate to hear what things sound like! I'm just a guy with a modest home studio and a couple of mid-level consumer grade cameras, so if I can do it, why can't companies with big budgets get it together?

[quote name='jonthebass' post='718804' date='Jan 20 2010, 10:55 AM']Great video, great sound and great review. Thanks for doing it Fella. BTW, what mic is it you're talking into?[/quote] It's a Heil Sound Fin - certainly stands out from the crowd! It has little leds in it that light up with phantom power Sadly it tends to bamboozle enigneers live, it has more output and top end than a 58 and so they always complain about feedback issues and I often ended up with no vocal in my monitor... so now I'm back to the old 58 for live use

Thanks for all your nice comments guys, glad you liked it! Yeah, it does get a dirty edge very early on... it doesn't really do completely clean at all, definitely a rock amp. It's very lightweight, can lift it with one finger! It comes with the same nice padded bag as the guitar version - no need for anything more than that Apologies for not trying it with a passive bass too, I wanted to keep it short-ish. I do have a passive bass, but the Stingray sounded nicer and really complimented the natural grindiness of the amp so I went with that. Perhaps sometime I'll do a second video! Yeah, treble all the way up sounded rubbish, but I thought I might as well demonstrate the full range of the tnoe controls With all of them down it's effectively muted, so it's nice to show exactly which frequencies each knob boosts/cuts

I bought a Terror Bass a few days ago and I love it! I had to buy it online as nowhere stocks them around here, so as I have cameras and a little home studio I thought I'd try my best at a decent video demo for others in the same situation. I tried to be as thorough as possible in going through all the tone controls and the sound is recorded with 'proper' mics into a decent DAW, so hopefully this will prove useful to anyone interested in this amp who can't get to a shop to try one! I tried to keep the same riffs throughout to show the differences between tone settings more effectively. Full recording chain: Musicman Stingray bass guitar Orange Terror Bass head Ashdown ABM410T, fitted with Eminence Deltalite II 2510 drivers (miced with Shure SM7B) Ashdown ABM115, fitted with Eminence Kappalite 3015LF driver (miced with Audix D6) API 3124+ preamp RME Fireface 800 I'm not a virtuoso bassist by any stretch of the imagination and don't feel the need to show off by slapping, popping and busting out stupidly difficult hooks. I am but a humble rock bassist, and this is a rock amp, not a super-clean slapping machine! If you want clean slap tones, I suggest you look elsewhere! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-rN4glWmTs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-rN4glWmTs[/url] It's not totally processed at the time of writing... it will be in high def (and thus better audio) once Youtube's fully processed it - but it's half one in the morning now so I can't wait up any longer