Hello,
My friend plays bass guitar and he would build a bass cabinet for his Fender Jazz Mod Roscoe Beck using a Gallien-Krueger amplifier. What is the best JBL bass loudspeaker for my friend? And about the bass cabinet volume?
Ciao
Giuseppe
Hello,
My friend plays bass guitar and he would build a bass cabinet for his Fender Jazz Mod Roscoe Beck using a Gallien-Krueger amplifier. What is the best JBL bass loudspeaker for my friend? And about the bass cabinet volume?
Ciao
Giuseppe
You ask a huge question almost impossible to answer. So much depends on personal taste in tone, playing style, need for volume....it's very personal and subjective.
My favorite bass cabinet was the old Dual Showman twin D-140 box from the 1960s. Just a couple of D-140s in a big sealed box. But that's just MY opinion, no doubt many modern players would dislike the sound. No tweeter.
The Bass player at our nightclub, Dave from Manchester, England, has a little 2-10 Hartke cab he carries with his Galleon-Kruger head.
I offered him a JBL Cabaret 4625 with a single E-140 with a tin dome. He really liked it because it had NO tweeter.
He is very accomplished and I know how particular every musician is, as I am the son of two very accomplished musicians.
Dave asked me to build him an enclosure using a single D-140F, which I have, and will try to make it fit into his gig rig.
Good Luck.
Scott.
One step above: "Two Tin Cans and a String!"
Longtime Alaskan Low-Fi Guy - E=MC² ±3db
I have a friend, a bass player, with a pristine-but-empty Sunn cabinet designed specifically for a twin D140 load. This thing is HUGE, but he's offered it to my daughter who has just started taking up electric bass. Anyone have a pair of D140s sitting around at a price I can afford to be playing with as an cabinet bottom for a twelve-year-old? Are the D140s desirable for anything else that might make them too valuable for hobby work? Or are they, like D130s, pretty easy to come by cheaply? Anything else easily found that would work? Thanks for any opinions and I hope this add to rather than hi-jacks this thread.
When I saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience Noel Redding was using those JBL loaded Sunns, Hendrix was using two Marshalls and one Sunn.
Mountain was big on Sunn too, that band roared live.
This little Ampeg is all I need now, I've an offer to play Dixieland, who'da thought it.
Hearing the bass player for the Steve Miller Band play through four Sunn bottoms with two D140's each is my first perception of JBL's. 'Nothing but ever since.
Myself - I use a JBL Sub1500 in a 4628B cabinet for bass, powered by one 900 watt channel of a Crest CA-9 amp, along with graphic and parametric EQ.
John
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