JPJ

I’ve built and finished few bodies over the years and the cost is in the time not the materials. Making templates, cutting, routing, shaping, then sanding, spraying, flatting, and polishing all take hours upon hours. I would budget around one third to one half the cost of the bass when new for a new one-off body.

Fascinating stuff, thanks again Phil for taking the time to look at this for me.

I once had a girlfriend like that 😂

I’ve been using a Line6 G50 for a long long time, probably 10 years. I’ve had no bad experiences or signal dropout although a previous guitarist had the same unit and I would cause his to drop out if I got between his transmitter and receiver even though we were on different channels. He moved his receiver to his pedal board and the problem was solved. I’d love another transmitter pack as I often swap fretted to fretless, but they are bloody expensive!

You know the rules - pictures or it didn't happen 😎

I 'think' I prefer nice warm old school to be honest. I notice most commercial 2x12's seem to calculate to around 110-120 litres so I'm guessing that's 50-60 litres per driver?

Cheers Phil, that’s very interesting and makes a lot of sense. When I put the Deltalites in the 4x10 Goliath it definitely acquired a very ‘musical’ low mid bump compared to the tired old PAS speakers. Daft question, but is there any advantage to mixing drivers albeit in separate boxes or is that a big no no?

Thanks again Phil, I’m in no particular rush and happy to be the Basschat test pilot

‘Beat’ is an emotive term isn’t it. I play a lot of five string bass so low (or pseudo low) end is important. I’m not a slap pop & tapper and mainly play what you might call classic rock, southern rock, and country style music. I like a little mid growl but certainly don’t need glassy highs. I originally thought this might be as simple as building two Basschat 1x12 mk II’s, leaving the compression driver and crossover out of one and metaphorically gluing them together 😂 - shows how much I know about loudspeaker design 😂

Yep, two of my five strings assumed a nice bow and unplayable high action. To be fair, its a while since I last tweaked them so the heat probably only exaggerated a raise action to the point where I did something about it.

On most of the basses I've owned and liked, the front edge of the pickup sits just behind the harmonic which is about 6 1/2" from the bridge saddles. I've had a couple where the pickup is on the harmonic and they are way too bright for me. Don't know whether this helps?

So the cab would be used in both scenarios, as completely standalone bass reproduction in smaller pub gigs and with PA support on larger stages. Amp-wise my current stable contains the Ashdown Head of Doom (shown in the picture), a pre/power setup containing the SWR Marcus Miller pre coupled with their 400W class D Amplite power amp, and the 1500w behemoth SWR SM1500. Primary design objective will not be weight, and I’m not against fitting wheels and a handle to trundle it around. My current ‘go to’ cab is an SWR Goliath II fitted with Eminence Deltalite speakers. This cab does all my gigs both with and without PA support. As I said earlier, I’m a fairly competent wood butcher so you can get creative (top and bottom shelf ports, centre port, three shelf ports, drivers in their own boxes, folded horn, or split angled baffle a la early Schroeder cabs). Budget-wise, I’m fairly flexible but why don’t we say up to £500 for the two drivers I.e around 50% of the as new price of a Barefaced Super Twin?

Hi Phil, I’d definitely be up for that. Something fairly efficient, and don’t worry about complexity, I’m a fairly competent wood butcher. Oh and a slot port please. Oh and 19” wide as I can’t stand overhanging amps 😂 At todays rehearsal I got to use a wonderful old Carlsbro Stingray Pro Bass 4x12 which must have been a very efficient design as it was monsterously loud with the master volume barely on.

Crazy idea, to save space use a four pole speakon and offer a special cable with two outs for one in (it works in my head)

Good point well made. I suppose I just fancy a single 4ohm cab solution. Also, in my head the second 1x12 could be simpler (no crossover or compression driver).

Like a lot of us, I followed the design mega thread of the Basschat 1x12 with great interest (and the simpler version too). I am thinking of building one, but I really fancy a 2x12. My question to @stevieand @Phil Starr is would it simply be a case of doubling the cab size to add a second 12” driver (even in a divided box if necessary)?

YI-PET?

Sounds like we need another NE Bass Bash once the prototype is available 😎

I’m available 😎 I was also an early tester for the YI200 and still intend buying one when funds permit.