What kind of ISO cab do you have dude???
I've got a couple of the old-school Randalls. Wish I had one of those new side-firing ones that are the same size as a 4x12 cab.
One cab has a V30, one has a JBL E120.
What kind of ISO cab do you have dude???
Here's a clip I made with my home-made ISO cab I used to have.I'd like to get a single Greenback to try in an Iso-cab, just to see what they sound like.
I've got one of the Randall ISO cabs too, & I'm really underwhelmed by it myself. You got any pointers for this thing??? I've tried everything I know of to get the boxy-ness out of the sound, & just can't do it. The home-made ISO cab I had sounded pretty damn good IMO, but it was about 3 times as big on the inside as the Randall...I've got a couple of the old-school Randalls. Wish I had one of those new side-firing ones that are the same size as a 4x12 cab.
One cab has a V30, one has a JBL E120.
I know it's hard to describe what things sound like, but could you give a comparison of them to V30s? I've already got a V30, but I wouldn't call it 'broken in'. Does breaking them in make a big difference? Also, I don't push them very hard, if at all. I run it in a Iso-cab with a 5W amp generally, unless I use the 15W Blues Jr., and even then, I don't push the amps. I just never have any alone time with them.
I've got one of the Randall ISO cabs too, & I'm really underwhelmed by it myself. You got any pointers for this thing??? I've tried everything I know of to get the boxy-ness out of the sound, & just can't do it. The home-made ISO cab I had sounded pretty damn good IMO, but it was about 3 times as big on the inside as the Randall...
On the Randall, dude, I've tried everything I have: '57, Sennheiser e609, condenser mics, different speakers, different amps, I've put little panels of Roxul Safe-N-Sound in various places in the ISO cab, just everything I have here, & it has a boxy-ness that I can't get rid of....Did you ever try anything but a 57 in the Randall?
Nope, no tips. But do you still have the plans for your homemade cab? I'd kinda like to give that a shot sometime.
I agree 100% Bob...The Randall ISO I have does have a little port on the baffle:I've never weighed in on the iso-box thing but now that I see the pic:
If there is no port, then one of the reasons it sounds so boxy is the tiny size of the cab .... I mean TINY!
But you say "Bob (or Steve or whatever the hell your name is ) .... I made the section with the speaker pretty damned big!"
And that's true .... however ... the box in front of the speaker where the mic is loads the speaker just the same as the rear does ...... effectively the actual size of that cab, as far as holding the speaker back goes, is the smaller section of the cab where the mic is.
A speaker doesn't care or know if the air that's compressing and stopping the speaker from free-movement is in front of it or behind it ..... doesn't make any difference.
In fact, it's not uncommon to see big PA cabs with the woofers mounted facing in with the magnets sticking out in the air because it can be easier to maintain them and/or switch out speakers. No back or baffle to remove and no cone or dome for fingers to poke..
So you can't just calculate the proper dimensions for a speaker cab based on the speakers Q and response etc. and put that in the back only.
It would also need to be the same in the mic section.
In this case you (he) could have made the same cab much smaller by making the back section as small as the front. It would sound about the same ..... crappy.
I know that feeling well!I take that back man, I'm so glad I don't have to see her face anymore it's like a new lease on life....
One. He didn't like the sound of his homemade cab.I think you're getting it backwards here, Lt.. He liked the sound of his homemeade cab, it was the Randall he didn't like. And the Randall does have a port, yet that's the boxy-sounding one.
Minerman, was your cab significantly quieter than the Randall?
I've got one of the Randall ISO cabs too, & I'm really underwhelmed by it myself. You got any pointers for this thing??? I've tried everything I know of to get the boxy-ness out of the sound, & just can't do it. The home-made ISO cab I had sounded pretty damn good IMO, but it was about 3 times as big on the inside as the Randall...