Bass Watts?

[spankenstein]

I just don't understand when the house mics one speaker why you want to lug around 8+

 

[DJL]

When is the last time you went to a concert... anyway, next time you go, checkout the bass rig used to keep up with two full stack guitar rigs.

 

[Adam P]

I just don't understand when the house mics one speaker why you want to lug around 8+

I know that, personally, I like to hear myself on stage.

To the thread starter, are you looking for something for rehearsals, live gigs, all of the above, or what?

 

[spankenstein]

I'm saying for the guitarist as well.

 

[mixsit]

Re: bass stack

...WARNING: The SWR cab is a strange animal. The output is best heard a few feet from the cab (any scientists feel free to explain) so when I stood right next to or in front of the stack it never sounded loud enough...

I've heard the same from a least two different bass players.
Wayne

 

[Light]

Re: bass stack

WARNING: The SWR cab is a strange animal. The output is best heard a few feet from the cab (any scientists feel free to explain) so when I stood right next to or in front of the stack it never sounded loud enough to me but the singer and audience would disagree.

This is true of any bass cabinet. The wave length for the open E string on a bass is thirteen feet long (or there about). You need to be at least half that distance away before the wave has fully developed. This is why bass players who stand right next to their amps always play too loud. It is just physics, you know.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[mixsit]

I don't understand the concept of the 'wave being developed' in one spot but not another. I do understand that there are huge peaks and gaps in the low end in any given spot in a room.
Still it's an interesting bit of opinion.
Wayne

 

[spankenstein]

Look at a picture of a sine wave. The a lower frequency has a longer space between peaks and valleys. Light is saying that the distance from one peak to the next on a low E on a bass is 13 feet. Assuming you start at 0 at 6.5 feet will be the the first peak and the first point where the full sound will be heard.

 

[mixsit]

Look at a picture of a sine wave. The a lower frequency has a longer space between peaks and valleys. Light is saying that the distance from one peak to the next on a low E on a bass is 13 feet. Assuming you start at 0 at 6.5 feet will be the the first peak and the first point where the full sound will be heard.

I'm very willing to learn. I just don't get why you would say you only hear peaks of a wave. Isn't sound the modulation of pressure? I can hear (or feel) 30 hz in my 15' room.