Digbeth, or other?

[AndyTravis]

I’m at a point where I’m looking at rigs - I love my orange OBC112’s - but they’ve no Horn and now I’ve got 2 bands on the go, one really needs that tweeter “click”.

 

Has anyone got experience of the Digbeth gear?

 

I see the 500w heads kicking about at £250 ish and they intrigue me.

 

but also the cabs…

 

will they do slappy stuff as well as indie/rock…

 

I’ve been using Ashdown ABM cabs with rootmaster heads at one rehearsal space - and all the cabs at the room a knackered but having used RM heads before, I know they’re pretty capable.

 

not sure what to do - I’m in a position where I’ll have to sell current rig to buy another…

 

 

 

[MichaelDean]

I love my Digbeth head. It'll do everything. It's so easy to get a good sound out of it. The tilt control is the secret sauce. You can make it darker or brighter with that while keeping the same base tone. I'm confident you'd be able to get a good slap sound from the amp. 

 

Not tried the cabs though, so can't comment there.

 

@Dood had them in for review. 

 

 

 

[AndyTravis]

I knew @Dood was the answer; it always is.

[Dood]

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Many a time I’ve nearly given up on it as there’s a real apathy or lack of engagement - maybe that’s my fault, but it’s really hard to capture enough people’s interest. I’m not pretty and showing a bit of flesh isn’t an option, which for many seems to be the way to go in the absence of any real quality material, so losing a battle from the off when people would rather “engage” with something that requires less investment. 

 

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[BassmanPaul]

Why not just add a bright box to your existing system. It would cost far less than a new speaker system. 

 

[AndyTravis]

17 minutes ago, BassmanPaul said:

Why not just add a bright box to your existing system. It would cost far less than a new speaker system. 

 

Where’s the fun in that 😆

 

I WANT A NEW AMP 😉

[la bam]

I had the Digbeth head and 4x10 vertical cab. 

 

Great amps. All the cabs are different though (410v) (410 box) (212) so check out what's best for you. 

 

Great heads, I'd buy one again definitely. 

[Pea Turgh]

Got wood?  Roll your own!

 

[MichaelDean]

You could also give the plugin a free trial to get a flavour for it. It's pretty close to the real thing and they've got IRs for all of the cabs.

https://auroradsp.com/plugins/laney-digbeth-db500

[AndyTravis]

5 hours ago, MichaelDean said:

You could also give the plugin a free trial to get a flavour for it. It's pretty close to the real thing and they've got IRs for all of the cabs.

https://auroradsp.com/plugins/laney-digbeth-db500

Now then…

 

I might use that for recording the album…

[stewblack]

I have played through the Digbeth at last year's SW Bass Bash and it's really sweet. Incredibly versatile and simple.

I'm skint these days so settled for the preamp pedal, fed into the effects return of any amp it does the job.

Highly recommended.

However the best cabs I've played through without doubt are the LFSys built by our very own @stevie specifically because of the way they handle the high end.

[-asdfgh2-]

On 31/03/2025 at 22:33, BassmanPaul said:

Why not just add a bright box to your existing system. It would cost far less than a new speaker system. 

 

Or even add a tweeter and crossover to the Orange?

[AndyTravis]

25 minutes ago, -asdfgh2- said:

Or even add a tweeter and crossover to the Orange?

In all honesty, it’s a lot of messing about when there are other pre-made cabs that do that job…

 

I don’t like pissing about with speaker cabs and amps.

 

if it’s not doing what I’m after, just sell and move on.

 

To be fair - I like these orange cabs.

 

so I might just find another cab for the other band with a tweeter and crack on.