Custom Guitar & Bass Speaker CabinetsBass Speaker Cabinets
Custom designed and built bass speaker cabs made to deliver guitar speakers full potential with vintage tone and HIFI performance. Each speaker cabinet is designed around a speaker and its performance as well as character and tone.
Speakers we use in our bass cabinets
I almost exclusively use Weber Speakers for most guitar applications. For Bass cabinets, depending on the style of playing and equipment already in use I will match the choice of speakers to complement and enhance players current style and setup.
One of the speakers we often use in 10" pairs or quads is a Michigan Weber
excellent performer in a 10" bass speaker lineup.
To enhance high frequency definition in bass speakers, especially ones with large voice coils, Weber Speakers has options for aluminum dust caps which provide a little more top end.
To achieve a vintage or typical AMPEG sound I often used same Michigans but with a large paper dust cap for a muted high frequency responce. Check out more options on Webers website.
Bass Speaker Cabinets and Heads
Our handbuilt custom bass cabinets deliver tone, performance, and durability. Just like the guitar cabs, our custom bass cabs are designed precicely to aswer the requirements of the bass speakers we choose resulting in great response over a wide range of frequencies with it's unique tone and well controlled and articulate bottom. Our bass cabs deigned to answer the demands of a solo bass players who look for a sweetness in the upper register as well as thick bottom and punch.
Bass Speaker Cabinet Design and Construction
For the purposes of studio use and where the bass cabinets are not transported as often or are in the invironment where they can be damaged we choose natural solid wood bass reflex enclosures for best look and feel as well as great sound quality.
Many people relate certain tonal characteristics to certain woods, I personally do not subscribe to this "voodoo" other that the fact that yes, heavy hardwoods like walnut, rosewood, ebony, hard maple and western maple are good materials much better than pine, spruce, fir, or other softwoods. Many factors need to be considered before choosing material.
- Size of the bass driver/speaker
- Type of speaker and it physical parameters (Thiele/Small)
- Acoustic Design (bass reflex, sealed, horn, etc.)
- It's final location and purpose (transportability, wear and tear)
- Weight and size
To simply illustrate a request for a rosewood folded horn design with a 15" driver will result in a cabinet of mamoth proportions, extremely expensive construction and limited transportability.
Conversly, a 115 studio , low volume/output walnut cabinet will be, inexpensive, easy to make, great looking and very easy to transport if need be.
Back to design!
As you know another name for a speaker cabinet is an enclosure. What does it have to do with design, well, everything. The goal of designing the cabinet is to create optimal ENCLOSURE for a given speaker to be able to produce its full spectrum of frequencies without distorting, loosing SPL, or peaking on any note. Sound of the speaker is the goal and purpose of design. Looks come close second as we all like nice looking stuff.
Woods and Tonewoods
Quality and charchter of each type of wood is near impossile to quantify, therefore I will not go into suggestions that Maple cabinets are brighter than Walnut, I find this kind of statement misleading. However, when building speaker cabinets, aesthetics are very important and choosing beautiful wood to complement either guitar or studio decor is a welcome option.HIFI or reproduction of recorded sound demands neutral and non resonant construction, as do bass speaker cabinets.