Calling all Aguilar cab users

[Musicman20]

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='1075306' date='Jan 2 2011, 01:56 PM']I'm confident that a pair of DB12's would outperform a single DB2x12... sounds like GAS justification to me! [/quote]

I think they are virtually the same, OR, you may see a little more omph from the DB212. This is something I looked into when I bought the ones Higgie now has, and my 4 ohm DB212.

Yep, if we are talking one DB212 8 ohm, then maybe the DB112 x 2 will out perform it, BUT, I think if we are talking the single 4 ohm DB212, then because its a single large box, you get a huge sound. Something to do with total internal space actually being in one box, but that might just be talkbass nonsense.

Either way, two DB212s is just amazing. I wish I could still have both but space became a premium.

[warwickhunt]

[quote name='Musicman20' post='1075484' date='Jan 2 2011, 05:10 PM']I think they are virtually the same, OR, you may see a little more omph from the DB212. This is something I looked into when I bought the ones Higgie now has, and my 4 ohm DB212.

Yep, if we are talking one DB212 8 ohm, then maybe the DB112 x 2 will out perform it, BUT, I think if we are talking the single 4 ohm DB212, then because its a single large box, you get a huge sound. Something to do with total internal space actually being in one box, but that might just be talkbass nonsense.

Either way, two DB212s is just amazing. I wish I could still have both but space became a premium.[/quote]

Yes the internal capacity of the 2x12 is greater than the pair of 1x12 combined but as you rightly indicate I was speaking of the pair of 8's = 4ohm v single 8 ohm. Added to which I've started (with some help from some hard PC packing foam) stacking my 1x12's on their edge, thus the whole stack is significantly taller (especially on my Gramma Pad) and thus the drivers are stacked vertically a bit better than either the trad way of doing singles or than the 2x12. Hence if most gigs are accomplished with a single DB212 then I personally would have thought that a pair of DB112 would cope admirably. I gig in a 6 piece 'Southern Boogie' Rock band with a pair (sometimes 3 when the keys player moves to guitar) of guitarists and one of them uses a Fender twin, which gets pretty damn loud but my 112's do fine without ever getting near maxing out. In fact I prefer the DB12's getting pushed with a bit of power as they start to fatten up nicely!

I'm simply baffled as to which gig, with no PA support, where you would need a pair of DB212's. I can only imagine that would be silly loud when paired with a DB750. Only IMHO but I think awesome as it looks it is as much about GAS and pose... I should know I gigged a pair of EBS Neo 212's but then they were absolute featherweights to lug around.

Saying all of that if I was young, fit (no recurring shoulder injuries) and carefree I might well stick a pair of DB2x12's up just for the hell of it.