warwickhunt

I have 3 Sandbergs; x2 34" scale 'P' basses & x1 Lionel (fretless). The heaviest P bass comes in at 8lb 2oz, the other is 7lb 10oz, neither of these are a special 'Superlight' model, they are regular Sandbergs. The Lionel is 6lb 13oz. They balance and play beautifully, hardware is a notch up from USA Fender... imho

Indeed. IIRC the Tech Soundsystems 115 used a light weight Sica driver (spelling could be wrong) which made the cab a very reasonable weight.

I get sick of trying to tell bands that 2 subs 5-6m apart is worse than just 1 sub on its own... the looks I get when I say that max effect will be gained by stacking their 2 subs!

Saw the first pic and hadn't read any comments and my over riding first impression was... wrong headstock!

So you/we could hear something different and it explains our differing preferences on the contour of the older version. Nice to know you're not as cloth eared as we feared!

Tried it but the TC is right place but upside.

...or the V1 is more desirable and ends up costing more! LOL

Doesn't say if this will replace or supplement the original.

Tech Soundsystems did a 1x15 that had a 2/4/8 ohm switch; I remember opening it up and I'm sure it was dual coil.

Exactly. I've also never had a speaker cable fail but they do fail and my suggestion of running the 2 outputs that way is simply that in the event a cable did fail you would still have output. If you elect to daisy chain and the first cable fails you are in panic mode trying to establish WHY there is no output. I probably take this approach as I have witnessed it once in 40+ years of playing. When an amp/cab suddenly goes silent on stage, I can almost guarantee that the first things checked will be instruments, connect to amp cables, pedalboards (and cables) and the amp... the last thing expected or tested is the speaker cable (for the very reason you said they rarely die) BUT if it was to die then my suggestion gets you through the gig.

My train of thought with 2 out to 2 cabs V's amp > cab > cab is that they are both equal and the same BUT... if any one of your speaker leads fails when using the 2 out option, you'd still have 1 cab in operation and a song/gig wouldn't need to stop while you sort it. Whereas if cable (A) from amp > cab (1) failed, you'd be in silence while you sorted it. Of course if you are using a full valve amp you could have a cooked amp either way if the cable fails. Does that make sense?

@cd_david

I really wanted a Hamer 12 (or anything Tom Petersson might have played) but this was the only 12 string bass for sale in the UK in over a year, so I got it. I'm still looking for an alternative and then the Musicvox will be moved on.

The guy I got this off was gifted it by the owner/CEO of Musicvox (they were good friends) and he was told it was the prototype for the Space Cadet 12. I'm assuming they swapped to regular stringing, no pinstripe/binding and a narrower neck (this one is WIDE even for a 12er).

Meh the Mesa cab was alright... it was the ridiculous H&H 1x15 next to it that could be used to anchor a zeppelin (sorry, 'weather balloon'). The HH was so heavy it induced medical injuries just by looking at it, in at least 3 of the bass players present! Eh @cd_david 🤒

Does yours have the inverted string orientation (it's my 12er)?

Hand gel was available/used after playing the Bass Docs 63 bass!

Through a 'nasty' cab!

Very good point and you are right re. charges, they are cheaper than PP or the bank. Only issue can be some folk think it is a scam and refuse to use the service!

To be fair I wanted to see how 3 of these would sound vertical (6x10 but 8 ft tall), so I took them to a rehearsal tonight where we are testing out PA/sounds for a new band... ye gods it was glorious! I genuinely didn't need PA support but turned right down to be realistic and even on tick over I could be heard everywhere on stage!

A bit of an oddity that 1 cab. It has a 'slightly' different input plate on the back which also happens to have 1/4" as well as Speak-on in/thru. However, maybe I should reposition the logo to save those on the spectrum!

I just bought a 2nd pair of TC 210 cabs (I only gig 2 of them), if I was very tall it'd make the ultimate 8x10.

That is on the assumption that the poster is achieving his present tone from driving the valve power section of his 400w amp quite hard. It would be good to know if you are getting your 'tone' from the pre/power or both. If you are operating your power stage at less than full chat it could be that the Handbox 120 watts might be what you need. I totally appreciate that @Downunderwonder was saying that everyone thinks their amp is loud enough despite there being no means of comparative on stage volumes between different bassists/drummers/bands but I'm sure @wateroftyne will attest that my regular band (which he has kindly depped in, for me) are pretty loud when you are judging on stage volumes and my Handbox coped. I am NOT saying that it was barely ticking over or that I had as much headroom left as a 400w, that would be silly. I ran my Handbox with the output on 100% and the preamp/input gain at or about where 'crunch' is indicated on the lettering/legend of the faceplate. However, it did achieve gig volumes that meant I could project my backline without PA support in small to medium rooms. The Handbox is not the be all and end all of valve amps but for it's size/weight and cost it is pretty bloody good. BTW I have no affiliation with Handbox... in fact I don't even own one of their amps any more, I sold mine.

I doubt that the 5hz difference will be solely down to the driver size and I'd have to ask myself whether you could hear it (added to which I'd generally have a filter taking out everything at that sort of point and below anyway).

I'm going to have a punt that this is a Handbox product!