New BassChat 8"Cab design

[rwillett]

Dave

 

Let me dig them out and I'll send them down. DM me your address please

[rwillett]

Started on the second cabinet today. 

 

This is a dry run fit, so no glueing. 

 

So much faster when you have done one before. The panels were all cut a few weeks ago, though I found one end was at an angle. Suspect the circular saw was poorly setup by some idiot.

 

Rather than cutting the batons in advance, I cut them as I needed and used a mitre saw and block rather than a home made table saw. This was a far better way of working and wasn't much slower.

 

Just under two hours to get to this, I do now have frostbite, but well on the way to getting a second cab, so completely worth losing a finger or so, who needs a little finger for playing bass.

 

 

 

Front and rear faces are also cut and fit, but I haven't done the holes for the speakers, handles etc yet. 

 

Rob

 

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

Coulx you pop round and finish my aquarium hood? When you've got a minute.

[rwillett]

5 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Coulx you pop round and finish my aquarium hood? When you've got a minute.

No problem at all. Be happy to, whens good?

[rwillett]

Is there any benefit to putting this speaker on poles at all? I happen to have a pair of Quickset Hercules tripods for astronomy use. These will easily take 40Kg each and probably closer to 60Kg without breaking sweat. 

 

No idea how to, but thats a different problem to solve...

Rob

 

 

 

[Pea Turgh]

Fit a “top hat” to the underside.  Sorted.  I’ve got one I’ll never use if you want me to pop it in the post, Rob.

[rwillett]

@Pea Turgh 

 

Thats kind of you. At the moment, I'm just wondering it it makes any significant difference for the better to put them on top of something. I have a recollection that somebody said they should be on the floor in a corner but can't find the comment.

 

If I had the "top hat", I'd still have to fashion something to attach to the tripod. Yet another adapter

 

Hold off for the moment please.

 

Rob

[LawrenceH]

Raising a speaker creates position-dependent dips in the frequency response where the reflected wave at a given frequency combines out of phase with the direct wave at your ears. Walls and ceilings also do this. Hence in-room response measurements can be pretty crazy.

 

But it has the advantage that it puts the mids/highs a lot closer to your ear! Sometimes that matters a lot more in practice. It depends if you want more note clarity (raise it up) or girthy bass (shove it on the floor next to the wall if not in a corner)

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, rwillett said:

Is there any benefit to putting this speaker on poles at all? I happen to have a pair of Quickset Hercules tripods for astronomy use. These will easily take 40Kg each and probably closer to 60Kg without breaking sweat. 

 

No idea how to, but thats a different problem to solve...

Rob

 

 

 

 

Dedicated speaker poles are so cheap it's not worth making an adaptor and riskinc a nice astro tripod.  About £20 on Amazon. Gorilla only £24.

 

 

[rwillett]

1 minute ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Dedicated speaker poles are so cheap it's not worth making an adaptor and riskinc a nice astro tripod.  About £20 on Amazon. Gorilla only £24.

 

 

Didn't realise they were that cheap. The 'adapter' would be metal rod or a piece of wood and the tripods have already been adapted. They came with the slo-mo heads on and I took those off made plywood plates to fit various EQ heads. They are rather battered from before I brought them, but were probably very expensive as they were made for Hollywood type film cameras . I know the model or or two up from mine was $12,000. That's mine below.