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I’d be tempted to buy one. I use a Bogner mojado like that via the power amp in from a fractal ax8 most weeks.
I’m guessing the market for people with a helix, ax8 or amplifire and looking for quality backline options is growing.
- Loud enough?
- Sound like a guitar cab with my ear next to it?
- Lightweight?
All of those things were easy to figure out at the show. No, I couldn't get any detailed audio out of it, but that wasn't the end of the world for me.
1 - Using a modeller plugged straight into the back.
2 - If you've got preamp pedals on your board, you can skip the whole amp thing.
3 - Rack preamps without the weight of a power amp.
I've got requirements for #1 and #3, with a Helix and a Soldano X88R clone (for different bands), and it'd be really nice not to have to muck around with amps or power amps.
What I would say is that the power amp should be bypassable - so it can be used as a normal cab if someone fancies using a real amp at some point.
A nice valve power section would would be great and probably a selling point but I’d be happy with a straight ss amp and let the pedals do the work.
Sorry, thread hijack, but it did both annoy and worry me.
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You might find conservatism rather than scepticism is your biggest issue, as many players want the nearest thing to something that was made in 1959 as possible! Things are changing slowly however, with greater adoption of modelling technology etc. I wonder if looking at an FRFR application if this might be an option?
Oh, and by the way, there is a special section of the forum for manufacturers to promote their wares, us builders are asked to confine these posts to that area.
We already have some guitarists using our Big Baby 2 (passive) and FR800 (active) as FRFR cabs - they're really good at that because they're designed to be ultra high accuracy (which is a more effective goal than Full Range Flat Response). I've thought about doing a repackaged version with less deep bass response for the FRFR guitar market but there's a fair few companies making ok FRFR cabs at lower cost.
Hopefully we can start to convince guitarists that they'll get their 1959 sound but without having to always stand in the ideal spot in a room with ideal acoustics - that's what this is about!
Need to save up some pennies first.
https://speakerimpedance.co.uk/?act=two_parallel&page=calculator
What’s it like for monitoring if you put it down on the stage vs raising and/or tilting it towards your head? (I tend to avoid 1x12 cabs with heads mainly because it’s a bit awkward to tilt them and they can be wobblier than a combo if on a chair etc). Putting it on the floor would be better.
How much sound would you get from right behind the cab? In this instance less would be better as I have a keyboard player who sets up behind me and doesn’t like the stage volume from my usual open-backed combos.
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For your keyboardist, I think you've found a niche where the AVD design wouldn't work so well - do you have to have your amp in between the two of you? Then again, the sound they'll be getting from the AVD will at least sound almost identical to the sound from the speaker at the front, so if you can adjust the level it'll sit properly in the mix.
I do like the idea of a small, non-beamy cab for the smaller gigs I do. Ironically for those I tend to use IEMs so the spread would be more for the audience's benefit than mine. I guess the close-miked sound will be closer to a conventional cab?
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If you close-mic an AVD cab it'll sound sort of like a closed-back cab and sort of like an open-backed cab. As you've probably noticed, when close-miked there is far less difference in tone between the two varieties than there is out in the room, because with a close mic you mostly hear the speaker and very little of the cabs impact at lower frequencies. In fact, because of the proximity effect, any drop in bass response from an open-backed cab can be compensated by the proximity effect causing a rise in bass response at the mic. In the mid frequencies the difference in internal reflections from the panels is what causes the change in tone between an open-backed and closed-back cab.
But the really cool difference between the GX AVD cab and closed one is that you don't have a flat panel a fairly short distance behind the cone causing reflections which come back through the cone and mess with the sound of the speaker. And compared to an open cab you don't have as much in the way of up and down and side to side standing waves causing uneven response. Instead the angled panels that make the AVD break up the internal shape of the cab and mean that any reflections of standing waves have far less negative impact on the sound of the speaker.
Of course the real risk is that you wouldn't want to send it back! ;-)