Oldman

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1443378910' post='2874262'] An outfit called B-Low are handling Schroeder in the UK - I don't know anything about them, however. [url="http://www.b-lowbass.co.uk/"]http://www.b-lowbass.co.uk/[/url] I bought both my Schros from this very boutique (i.e. BC) - they do come up occasionally, but you have to keep your eyes open. [/quote] I can help with some of the issues mentioned in this thread, build quality to name one: Bear with me on this: After reading about Schroeder Cabs and their 'Sound' on this here Forum I looked on the Schroeder www to see who stocked them in the UK, SFX were listed on the www as UK agents/stockists, but they no longer existed at the time of my interest. I mailed Schroeder's direct and found out that they had been dispensed with about 6 years previous to my inquiry (this was December 2014) for unmentioned reasons. I perused the www and became excited at the 18PL and 210PL stack and ordered direct from Jorg 2 x 4 Ohm cabs in December last year intending to use them with my Tecamp BonaFide, Bass boost on one channel for the 18PL (30 Hz - 18 kHz) and the 210PL for the other channel. Both cabs are in my weight limit with the 210PL being a one handed lift (on paper). At the time of ordering I had not found anything detrimental to my purchase! My cabs arrived in the Epoxy finish that seemed to be the Schroeder standard, I didn't like that as they were still 'sticky' to touch but I thought they would harden off in time. Sound wise and construction wise they were spot on and delivered everything I wanted. I mailed Jorg, as we were on 1st name terms and I asked if he would be interested in representation in the UK, my background is Sales, Marketing and Business Development, we agreed to Skype top explore the possibilities. By the time we Skype'd I had discovered that there had been construction and reliability issues in the past, I raised this with Jorg and was satisfied with his answer that Chinese built Eminence speakers and a duff pallet of Chinese wood from his lumber merchant caused many of the issues. Drivers are now Italian B&C and all reliability issues have been addressed over the past years so that now they have good product and plenty of good reports from users. We decided to bite the bullet and place an order delivery to coincide with a web site going live. Initially we majored on Schroeder as a www name but then decided to spread the net wider with other merchandise and changed the name to www.b-lowbass.co.uk [attachment=202061:be-low bass.png] It is worth pointing out that Schroeder's is a small family run company, easier to react positively to customer "Custom" requirements such as 'Tolex' finish. I was not a fan of the epoxy finish so we ordered all Cabs in a black 'Tolex' finish. The initial order was for the the Mini series, 8, 10, 12 and 15PL (all 8 Ohm cabs) as they had a common 17" dimension that allowed stacking, if you happened to spot them at the Bass Bash the 'tower' included from bottom up, 15PL, 12L, Mini10+L topped out by the Mini8+L. The results of the Cab Shoot out was a pleasant surprise for me and b-low bass, we sent the thread to Jorg as vindication of our faith in the product. If you are in driving distance of Leicester and you want a shot of an 18PL (4 Ohm), 210PL (4 Ohm), 1212L (4 Ohm) , 15PL (8 Ohm), 12PL (8 Ohm), 12L (8 Ohm), Mini 10+L (8 Ohm) or the magnificent Mini 8+L cab (8 Ohm)PM me or hit the www and inquire away. Thanks for reading and I trust this has clarified some of the issues raised in this thread. Brian

Aye aye, the footprint is identical and from a distance it looked as though you were, made more sense using one head

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1443365096' post='2874128'] So, yesterday being a great day and all, below are the results form the cab shoot-out. I`ll also copy this to a post in Amps/Cabs so that others who might not click onto this one - how very dare they - can see what happened. So, the idea was, following on from last years amp shootout, to use the same bass and amp into a variety of cabs, and see if there was a particular theme/overall winner. As such, using my 2015 US Precision into a fairly neutral sounding Tecamp Puma 900 with all eq set at midday (in the hope it would be a flat setting), the cabs below were investigated. We did a section on 2x12s which seems to be a very poular cab nowadays, 1x15s, 1x12s, and then a very small misc section. For the purposes of the test if the cabs had tweeters I set them to be full on. I`ll list each cab, and the amount of votes it got from the audience as to whether it was their fave. So the 2x12 section, starting with my very own cab: Barefaced Super12T - 1 Schroeder 212 - 8 Bergantino CN212 - 9 EBS Neo 212 - 2 EAD 2x12 - 5 So a winner for the Bergantino, and pretty fed up that I made my own cab come last! Onto the 1x15s Markbass Traveller 115 - 3 Barefaced Compact (Gen2) - 8 Schroeder 115 - 11 Barefaced Compact (Gen 1) - 3 So a winner for Schroeder Onto the 1x12s Barefaced Super Midget (Gen 3) - 3 Schroeder 112 - 3 Fearless 112 (with mid speaker, think a 6?) - 13 Barefaced Big Baby2 (Gen 3) - 7 Prosound PA Cab - 2 A runaway victory for the Fearless then. The misc section was very small, being OBBMs Phil Jones 4x5 - so it won that section hands down (well done Dave). So onto the overall faves then, putting the winners from each section above: Fearless 112 - 4 Schroeder 115 - 5 Bergantino CN212 - 20 So overall the Berg tops it, but it was interesting that over the range of cabs that Schroeder, given the lack of presence of their cabs over here, did so well in all sections. I`m sure a lot of it is to do with the cabs fitting my attack-based playing style, but overall the Schros did very well. Many thanks to Brian (Oldman) for bringing them along. So, what were my impressions of the cabs used? Well my fave for the type of music I currently play was the Schroeder 212, as it really adds a cutting presence, a hi-mid bias I would say. For bands I`ve been in previously it would have been the Berg. But there were four real revelations for me: 1. The Barefaced Super Midget Gen 3 - such an amazing amount of sound from such a little cab. And quality sound too, not just volume. 2. Likewise with the Phil Jones 4x5, real presence and quality sound. 3. The Prosound PA Speaker - apparently £60 from Maplins. Did the job fine, and wasn`t lacking in any way. 4. I managed, yet again, to get my own gear to come last. This is a pattern that seems to be repeating itself. But the main thing was, given the variety of cab brands, sizes, configurations, was that I would have been happy to use any of them at a gig. Sure there were nuances to each cab, but overall this shootout showed me that gear is gear, and sure, we all like to get our own sounds if possible, but workable sounds can be gotten from an array of different speaker cabs. Maybe we all obsess just that bit too much (I`ve certainly established that I do from this). Lastly I`d like to thank Nik and Colin for asking me to do this, it was great fun, and to get to play through such an amazing range of cabs was just amazing. [/quote] Lozz, I thought you used 2 x Tecamp Puma 300's for the shoot out not a single 900!

He's calling me for a Schroeder

Sold Ordep (Chris) the EBS Valvedrive at the South East Bass Bash yesterday, easy transaction cash on the nail which was donated to charity on the day. Thanks Chris

Thoroughly enjoyed myself today guys, thanks to all the organises, sterling work, muchly appreciated. Great to see so much good stuff played with panache....

EBS Valvedrive sold for £50.00 all proceeds to charity...

I put up two small items for the raffle, unopened set of Elites (5ivers) and a new short Speakon cable. As well as these two items I will put up my surplus EBS ( non DI ) Valve Drive pedal. But as an alternative to popping it in the raffle I will sell it for £50.00 on the day and put the proceeds to whatever charity we are supporting...