Shockwave

Made my own thread about them when buying my jazz bass recently. Top service.

I recorded my bands live EP in that room using the power section of the trace and a mix of DI and that cab miked up. I loved my tone with the VT Deluxe. https://soundcloud.com/chinspinner/oubliette

Unless the venue is massive, I wouldn't be worried about the spread of sound from just your amp. Bass permeates everything, It will be heard. For larger venues, you could buy a couple of powered cabs and put them through the PA? That would solve the problem. Everything is centralized through a mixer and can be controlled off stage.

[quote name='jonnythenotes' timestamp='1402904480' post='2477609'] Thanks for your expert sarcasm, when what I really would like is a bit of help and advice. As I said earlier, my sound,which has nothing to do with volume, is right for what I want, and the two Orange cabs can be very loud if required. I am only asking if any players have used, or are familiar with powered cabs, and can they be used to boost off stage sound quality, while at the same time keeping on stage volumes to a reasonable level. So forgetting what cabs they are, the sound from them, and the volume they can or cannot produce, are powered cabs an alternative to going thru a pa in a medium sized venue. Perhaps the laws of probability will eventually help answer a simple and straightforward question. [/quote] For smaller venues with small PA's your cabs should be more then enough anyway. For larger venues, they should have a decent PA setup where it would not need another powered speaker. Adding a powered speaker coming direct from your amp would really annoy any sound engineer I know because it takes away control of your volume from them. Also having a dedicated speaker for your bass would make it very easy for you to dominate the front of house mix even if you don't mean to and you aren't going to be able to monitor it because you aren't out front when playing. I have never seen a bass player add a personalized powered cab for the audience only to hear. I think what the above people are saying are right, they are giving you advice but they aren't really saying what you want to hear. You should be looking at the way the signal comes from your amp, the pre-amp settings (What sounds good to you playing on your own sounds completely different in a band mix, adjust for the PA not for what you hear on stage) or talking with the sound engineers to help get the audience facing sound you want to achieve.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1402332547' post='2472323'] That looks completely freaking awesome! That's the ACG EQ01 pre-amp? What do the switches do? [/quote] So 4 dual concentric knobs. Volume/Blend, Neck pickup Low pass/volume, Bridge pickup Low pass/volume and Global High pass/Volume. Small switch is killswitch. Large switch switches from Humbuckers, to Coil tap outer coils and to coil tap inner coils. I can then use the balance control if I want the just the neck single coil or bridge single coil.

Thanks guys. I hope to give a full review soon. I just havent had anytime to really play it since receiving it. Safe to say, the amount of sounds this thing has thanks to the custom coil tapping and ACG EQ01 filter.

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