Kim Gordon

steve wrote:

Antero wrote:Why are these cabinets so well-loved here?

David Wm Sims.

bob weston.

Yes, but what are the benefits the design provides that is leading those beloved figures to adopt their use?

Antero wrote:Yes, but what are the benefits the design provides that is leading those beloved figures to adopt their use?

thiele (or theile) small compact design, closed back, front bottom ported, the speaker (EV15ML) is a bright, deep powerful speaker with excellent mids (not muddy). the 90's Mesa 1X15 design are more or less the same.

two of them arguably gets you as cutting a sound (or more) as an ampeg 8x10, but you can move the 1X15's all by your lonesome and not need back surgery after the fact.

Oh, and there's no fuckin' stupid tweeter.... EV designed the cabinet to work best with that particular speaker and it gets bright without having a crispy fried sounding high end response like current "production" bass cabs marketed towards Primus types. Dietz and Mesa are two of the only companies I know of that listened to EV's recommendation. Mesa still sort of uses the design, but they include ugly truckbed metal and tweeters now as well as stupid tweeter mix knobs on the back.

mr.arrison wrote:thiele (or theile) small compact design, closed back, front bottom ported, the speaker (EV15ML) is a bright, deep powerful speaker with excellent mids (not muddy). the 90's Mesa 1X15 design are more or less the same.

i think it's the diesel model. and the diesel road ready models.

two of them arguably gets you as cutting a sound (or more) as an ampeg 8x10, but you can move the 1X15's all by your lonesome and not need back surgery after the fact.

i stopped using two ampeg 4x10's after stumbling into a sunn 2x15.

Oh, and there's no fuckin' stupid tweeter.... EV designed the cabinet to work best with that particular speaker and it gets bright without having a crispy fried sounding high end response like current "production" bass cabs marketed towards Primus types. Dietz and Mesa are two of the only companies I know of that listened to EV's recommendation. Mesa still sort of uses the design, but they include ugly truckbed metal and tweeters now as well as stupid tweeter mix knobs on the back.

tweeters are the worst things to happen to bass cabinets since anything. gallien krueger has a new bass cab out, a 4x10 ported design it has no tweeter. it actually sounded pretty damn good the other day. and it was like $400. not bad.

EV also made a cabinet for the speaker. the TL606 cab.

that damned fly wrote:

steve wrote:

Antero wrote:Why are these cabinets so well-loved here?

David Wm Sims.

bob weston.

Tim Midgett.

that damned fly wrote:

steve wrote:

Antero wrote:Why are these cabinets so well-loved here?

David Wm Sims.

bob weston.

C. All of the above

The Cab sounds good, I think I tried hard to find defined, high volume mids and highs for a while and probably over-dialed for it. With this cab the mids and high are built right in, I have to work on feeding on the rich low end and fill in the richness of the sound.

Overall I am very pleased, well worth the time and effort.

mr.arrison wrote:thiele (or theile) small compact design, closed back, front bottom ported, the speaker (EV15ML) is a bright, deep powerful speaker with excellent mids (not muddy). the 90's Mesa 1X15 design are more or less the same.

two of them arguably gets you as cutting a sound (or more) as an ampeg 8x10, but you can move the 1X15's all by your lonesome and not need back surgery after the fact.

Thanks, that's really good information.

Anybody ever try to make one out of italian poplar? It's supposedly super light weight and strong...