Wood is lovely stuff. I have spent my life making solid body and acoustic string instruments. I get upset when people argue over things they have not the refinement to perceive or inteligence to understand.
Sooo....question ALEX! 2x super compact stacked? OR! 1x super mini / big baby 3 stacked?!!!! Make a video comparison! Lol if not, humor me with your knowledge pleeeeez. Thanks 😊
@@BassRacerx we should make a video about this! The first three cabs we made all used 15” speakers and it was only once we’d developed the 12XN and 10CR drivers that we discontinued all the 15” bass models because the 12XN models were better for accurate tone and the 10CR better for coloured tone, without the compromise in the lows that people may have associated with smaller drivers vs 15”s. It is a educational/marketing challenge though, and I’m sure we’d sell 15” cabs if we made them - but I’m not sure they’d sound as good as the 10CR and 12XN models.
Nice video guys 🙂I have the Big Baby 2 and the One 10T. Both wonderfull cabs. Earlier I had a One 10 but missed the sparkling of a tweeter. The One 10T is exactly what I wanted. Keep up the good work guys!
I love how Alex admits to their cabs being a little confusing because they have so many varieties. It's insane to me, a guitar guy, how different all their cabs sound. I have the Activier Reality and come Monday, my Radical 2x12 will be here. Why two cabs??? And such different cabs?? One is for my quad cortex and one is for my Revv 120. Truly their cabs are game changing when you hear them in the room.
Best demo so far. The 10’s have a very pleasant warmness, the 12’s are more revealing (less room for error). I’m saving up for the BT3, but might breakdown and snag the BB3 in the meantime. Don’t get mad, but I think it’s time you guys retire the sign. The best cabs deserve the best vids, yeah?
Great demo of all the small cabs! A video idea for you guys..... Demonstrating cab pairings. e.g. how does it sound going from one super compact to two, or as you mentioned, a big baby plus a super mini. As a two10 owner, I'd love to hear what happens if you add a one10 on top. I know you make a three10 now, but I kinda like the idea of a versatile rig with the option to go 1, 2 or 3x10 depending on the situation. It might also be interesting to shootout your three10 with a two10+one10.
But ..... if the pickups of the guitar ONLY react/transmit/function in relation to the strings and have to be electrically powered working .... AND there is no microphone directly focusing the sound, vibration, waves, fluctuations, of the body, neck (should be easy to show, take the electric guitar off the strings, plug the guitar into an amplifier and plug the body of the guitar in different places ...., ) is anything transmitted into the amplifier, only the amplifier? If it doesn't transmit, it doesn't matter the base material to give tension to the strings ......
@@christianhertwig1593 the structure of the guitar resonates and filters and re-emits energy to and from the strings. Sound travels very fast in air and even faster through highe density materials so as soon as you pluck a note the energy is moving in circles around the system, even more quickly than it takes for the sound to get from the speaker to your ear.
@@BarefacedAudio Thank you for answering ...I understood that, but my doubt is about the transmission of sound, wave, vibrations. If I hit a block of any material, it makes a sound. Even concrete has its own sound and depending on the density of the material you can hear the difference. If I hit the body, is it transmitted via the pickups? So my idea is to NOT put strings on a guitar, actively plug it into an amp and hit the body anywhere on the guitar - the guitar WITHOUT strings. Supposedly you can NOT hear anything through the amplifier. And if so ..... There goes my question
@@christianhertwig1593 the pickup reads the movement of the strings using electromagnetics. If you don't have any strings then the pickup can't generate voltage (unless the windings have gone microphonic).
@@BarefacedAudio So in short 😎 on an electric guitar you only pick up sound via string vibration. You say in "Tonewood if it matters" ... then as a whole the body, neck, mechanics, metal bridge, produce a set of vibrations, waves, ... then they leave traces on the strings? And that is transmitted and comes out of the amplifier? I'm looking for logic ...... You know - many say that the wood makes the guitar sound better or worse. And that is the basis of the discussion. The sound wood, Tonewood. Now ... extending the doubt. I think I'm going to die without seeing an exact result 😂😂😂😂
The only thing missing is to show this video to the lord of the PRS`s 😂. Unfortunately there is no real scientific study on the structure of electric guitars. Doing a fully clinical study ... there is no one who will invest time and money in that. There are studies on different materials, metals, woods, plastics, etc. but not in questions of JOINTS. A lot is known about how one material acts with another in construction, any construction, and there are studies on how a material transmits or influences fluctuations (waves) to other materials, but not in questions of electric guitars ..... and it is such a big industry ....
In your tests, have you placed temperature probes around the fins and the ports to measure the effects of your design? I think you are on to something. Hell, maybe even a small muffin fan would be even an idea?
Yes, we measured things because there would be no point adding a load of complication if it doesn't work! Adding a fan would be difficult in a passive cab because there isn't a constant voltage power source, so the port resonance was a way to get around this.
@@cletusrobinson why add a fan when the SuperCooler ports already do what we want them to do? And the last thing I need in my life is another thing to remember to recharge!
Wait, so did these cabinets eliminate the typical beam that comes out right in the center of the front of the speaker somehow? I get that the AVD disperses the sound out in the back and around the room. I’m just not clear on whether that affects the typical beam out front.
If you're out front then you hear the combination of the AVD output and the cone output. And due to precedence effect your brain sums the two, adding the mid and treble clarity from the AVD to the sound from the cone which is lacking in those frequencies off-axis, but it continues thinking the sound it's hearing is solely from the closer (ie sooner) source.
Very cool cab 👏👏👏 I use to miss a close mic in your videos though, I mean a good sm57 right in front of the speaker 🙏 In this case a different mic on each and hear the comparison between them, etc… just throwing ideas my friends 😉
I play 90 gigs a year in pubs n clubs plus bigger festivals, most pub club gigs are not miced up so people not standing directly in front of my 4x12 complain they cant hear guitar, if this works happy to review it on my YT channel
@@timpetherick3365 great! Email us because I talk too much to use the phone effectively for customer consultations - we shall figure out what you need! 🤘
The tonewood argument for electric guitars was debunked a few years ago. Build quality strictly matters for performance and comfort. Wood resonance only matters acoustically (in acoustic guitars and speaker cabinets). Here is a link showing that the components are the important factors of an electric guitar. TL;DR Nut, bridge, pickups, strings.” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n02tImce3AE.htmlsi=QWzKQFpOaTtcKRVn
@@18JR78 this flawed video/experiment was one of the main reasons for these two videos. A well designed speaker cabinet should be aiming for zero wood resonance. If a guitar makes sound unplugged then it’s impossible for the woods to have zero effect on the plugged in tone - physics will not be denied.
@@ashtralplane777 email us and we'll figure that out! I know there's a trend with gear purchases for people to gradually step up in small increments towards their ideal gear, but if you can get the ideal gear in one jump then that's more cost effective. Normally that's hard to do because you need to be really good at figuring out what you need, and that comes with experience - however we've got the experience so can help a lot with that!
Hi, I just want to ask about miking a cab. So how does AVD help in general if your cab get (close) miked on a show anyway? I still don't understand that particular thing. Doesn't the improved spread bleed into other mics (which can be a problem in case the show is being recorded)? Sorry if the question is stupid/has already been answered countless times. Feel free to refer me to somewhere in such case.
Not a stupid question, a very common one! If your cab is loud enough for you to hear it on stage, then the AVD will improve the audibility around the stage, with less reliance on getting the monitor levels right. And any bleed will sound much more like your tone, rather than the boomy version of your sound that you get off-axis from normal guitar cabs, so the bleed is much less problematic - we've heard this from lots of customers and sound engineers, and locally (where there are more Barefaced cabs in use) sound engineers tend to get excited to see a Barefaced guitar cab because it makes their job easier!
@@BarefacedAudio Oh, alright, thank you! About the close miking, my point was more in the sense that if the sound relies on both sides of the speaker, with the back resonator adding in to the sound, won't close miking only amplify the signal coming from the front? In other words, if I close mike the cabinet, will the signal captured by the microphone (without counting in the particular response of the mic ofc) be faithful to the sound the cab actually has in the space?
@@AndrewDeer1 the AVD makes the sound in the room much more like the close miced sound of the cab. As soon as you go off-axis, a normal guitar cab's dispersion is so poor that the miced sound ends up very different to the room sound. It's one of those weird things where guitarists have been living with this issue for so long that they've stopped noticing it!
@@AndrewDeer1 it’s something I’ve definitely talked about lots in videos but maybe not done a video focused on this subject. It’s not something that’s easy to do a quick demo of because mics don’t work like human ears, so even if we can hear it clearly in the room it might not show on the mic. However I’ve had a few ideas so I shall try something soon!
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@@mattfleming2287 it certainly wouldn’t be funny if that was the case - like any business we need new customers, and in a world where magazines and forums are diminishing in their reach whilst influencers and algorithms (both of which link to advertising spend) are ever more powerful, we need people to discover us via places like RU-vid. Thankfully, they do!
This is very interesting as I've been toying with playing my 5 string bass with an octave up pedal and it would be interesting to split the signal and send the higher octave to the guitar speaker. Do you think that would be better than just running everything through a BB3? Lots of fuzz included.
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Really interesting! I'm still looking for my perfect baritone cabinet. Maybe I have found it here. I like the Celestion BN12-300S and the Thick Boy from OverTonez Audio very much and if I could get these speakers combined it would be perfect for me. It's for heavy rock, metal, doom, but you can also play other music styles with these because of the character of the speakers. I like the low frequencies and that's the reason why I like 7 string and 8 string guitars. I will have a look on your website. 🤘
a first order passive xo, and you could run a more traditional guitar speaker along with the rated input power of the bass speaker. EDIT: oh high pas on the one speaker, that makes sence.
Seeing Alex handle the cab to show the bottom port gave me a chuckle :) Any difference when pulling the cabinet away from the back wall? With all this talk of AVD, I thought having some room for that air to push would be beneficial. Also, the Cassidy is on my wishlist, & that amp head Fuchs!
@@jwstout007 the AVD is weirdly resistant to being affected by the cab’s positioning vs the walls - if it’s really far away then it won’t do much but venues and rehearsals rooms are rarely that extreme. It certainly means you can care less about where you put your cab and can put more energy into playing.
HAAAA ... This would be the PERFECT Cab for me. I play my own Bass/Guitar Hybrid. Maybe you Look at this Video close: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FC0pB19q4PU.htmlsi=didm9axUM5dzKZMi Great things you are Doing !!! :D
@@roberthastings708 yes, there’s a link to the customisation in the video description. It’s quite a few customisations added together so email us for help!
hell yeah this is an incredibly cool bit of gear!! clever idea to get extra volume for the 12XN -- I'd been wondering how those would sound with a guitar signal straight in, and wow did that combo with the copperback (+ your meticulous tuning of the box) live up to the hype!
In a simplistic sense the Activier is a bit more powerful - but it's got more current capacity so it'll put out more into reactive loads and will drive lower impedances. With all these things, it's the combination of the speaker and amp that equates to both the output and headroom - neither make any sound on their own! What's your current set-up?
Love the vids. So great to have good speaker comparisons. One suggestion, maybe put a label on each speaker? I kept forgetting which speaker was where. Thanks again!
