Johannes Bass

Looks great!! 👌🏽

Thanks! I first ordered a grill from bluearaan but they said they can't ship these things anymore for some reason. Then I found a company in rotterdam and called them ordering this model that I found on their spreadsheet (without pictures). Wasnt quite sure what I'll get but it turned out nice 😅 And thanks for sending the dimensions for the frame, I'm gonna add it when I have time. That will make it even more solid💪 I should have asked about the positioning before, only thought about it on the gig. I'll definitely have it on the ground next time, looking forward to test that!

Yeah I think it's great, adds some life and identity to it!👌🏽

Thank you Cosmicrain!

Hey! I finally finished the cab on Thursday and used it on a gig yesterday! I'm happy with the sound, just have to figure out a good position for it so I hear myself In a good way. I had it on a pno chair yesterday and the was fine but at times I heard too much highs because the horn is higher up in the cab. I was thinking to maybe add a mount for a speaker stand and put it up higher so I get a full sound from behind even with a loud drummer, especially when there is a PA and it's mostly for my stage sound. But maybe it's smarter to put it on the floor and tilt it so it faces upwards to have more low and I guess especially when there's no pa it might sound better for the audience 🤔. The option of the v1 of the cab combined with v3 is really appealing also. that definitely would sound awesome, just a lot to carry😅 I used it with an acoustic image top and blended microphone and pickup. That works pretty well for double bass, a Fullrange cab with an uncolored top. 👌🏽 I have to experiment more but I was pretty happy with the sound and got good feedback also from the audience! The grill I got is a bit thin so it needed more support and I think I'll actually buy some pieces of wood to make a nice frame for it. For more I just had to improvise and I also added some screws to make it solid before the gig.

Stevie sent me a cab kit for the basschat cab v3 and I'm having a blast building it. Everything perfectly prepared and he's helping with any questions that come up during the assembly. Awesome guy, great to have him in the forum!

Aidan helped me out with some spare parts he had left for the basschat cab v3 which I could't get a hold of in the Netherlands. Great guy, really saved my cab!! 💪

Thanks man, they look great too! I haven't decided yet. The wood on the front looks so nice that I'm now considering to just put a round grill over the 12" driver and the horn. 🤔

Thanks!

Hi everybody! Finally getting around to post some pictures on my progress with the cab so far. Thanks a lot Stevie for putting the kit together, I'm having a great time working on it and I wouldn't have managed to prepare the parts like this myself! I did the assembly and Gluing quite quickly (maybe too quick). I forgot to glue the brace for the handle before closing the cab. But I solved it by cutting it in half and then gluing it together and to the top inside the cab. And I didn't have enough big clamps to cover all the important spots but I changed the position of one clamp after a few hours and that closed the only gap I had so now I'm pretty happy with how it looks. I really like the color of wood so I decided for a natural finish. I first gave it some darker color with one layer of varnish and then I went for transparent yacht varnish. They only had the shiny one but I actually like it a lot. I have one layer on the cab now and will add the second today, probably I'll do 3 in total. I think the yacht varnish is very tough and should offer a good protection. Most of the parts I'm missing will arrive today except for the fatial pro driver which wasn't in stock and will Take about two weeks before it'll be delivered. I'll have to see how to screw the handle well now that the whole cab is already in one piece. Also I found a tube to use for the port which is just slightly loose in the porthole. How do you fix it in the hole? And it's there an alternative to needled felt I could use? Maybe some kind of acoustic foam? Because if I order it from ebay it'll cost 10£ for delivery and will take 2-3 weeks. And I couldn't find it in other places here in holland🤔

Hey man, I bought my beyma and parts here: https://en.toutlehautparleur.com/ "Welcome to the biggest stock in the EU of speakers and linked DIY parts." It's a French site and I think they deliver also to Norway. You can get a quote for the shipping cost! Cheers

Little update: I recently had a jazz gig in trio with Pno and vocals and one in quartet with drums, guitar and saxophone. I find the cab does a great job. I can get through in the band also with drums with no problems. I think it covers all the important bits in terms of sound without too much of a particular range. In my experience, too much low end often results in an undefined "wobble" and too much high end becomes nasal and doesn't sound natural anymore. I think the cab works really well for double bass. I would like to try it with an acoustic image amp at some point as the aguilar is already colouring the sound.

@Phil Starr thank you so much for making the design available, it's awesome that you share it with the bass community for free!!! I will post an update on the sound when I get to test it out live. The beyma is indeed a nice speaker I wasn't missing definition so I think it covers the double bass quite well without the need for a Tweeter!

Thanks @stewblack! I just found a clip on trolly from Adam hall that I'll try to add for even more portability!😍

Hi everybody! I built Phil's cab last week the one with a single beyma driver that he built at the bass bash. I had so much fun with building this and really like what came out! The gig I wanted to test it on got cancelled last minute but I wanna already post my experience her so far. I mainly play double bass and do a lot of jazz gigs. The challenge is to find a setup thats portable but powerful enough and nice sounding. I got interested in this cab because its quite powerful and phil made this smaller version of the original design to have less boominess in difficult rooms. This is an issue I experience quite a lot with double bass. So I got the parts and built it which was fun, building it yourself you also get to chose the color an little extras which makes it truly yours. From testing it at home and in a rehearsal without drums i can say that I'm really happy so far. I'm using it with a aguilar tone hammer 500. My first impression at home was that I had to dial down the mids quite a bit. But when I used my headway edb-2 preamp with it it sounded way more natural, so I thought the sound profile of the aguilar could be an issue with this cab. In the rehearsal with saxophone and jazz guitar though I found the sound great without adding the preamp, it was clear and natural. The room was a lot bigger than my small practice room where I first tried it but probably having also the other instruments changes a lot what you hear in the end. I'm looking forward to test it on the next gigs then I'll be able to tell more!