does anyone even make w bin bass cabinets anymore?

[Gizmot]

I’ve written about this before, but in the early 70s I was a keyboard player in a band with a bass player that used two Acoustic 360/361s. The sound was woofy but didn’t go low and it was very difficult to get a good stage balance or a decent mix with them. We played at an outdoor festival with another band whose bass player bought one of the first SVTs. The difference in sound, punch, clarity and transients were incredible. I’m not an SVT fan, but the idea of using multiple small drivers (lots of cone area) in a direct radiator design produces a much better more usable sound. When you power it with a big tube amp, the results were impressive. That’s one take on why the SVT is still around and the Acoustic 360 / 370 series isn’t.

 

[carsbybigd]

Used 1 of these with a SVT in the 80's

 

[PhatBottomBass1]

Gallien Krueger 4412 - 4x12" + 2x10"/250w

This is not mine, but it was my first "large" cab, besides my very first Marshall Super Bass 100 + Ampeg V4B with 2 x 4x12" Marshall Plexi Bass 100 angled cabinets.

After this I met the Ampeg SVT w/ 8x10" and used it in the first band I ever put together.

(OP...I have located a like new "Mitchell" 1x12" W box with a Gauss speaker that's never left a guys house for $275.00 - this could be the one!)

 

[JW56789]

'Bent Bass Horn' . . . I love the way that sounds.

With any luck at all, there are no more of these dinosaurs. I toted one around 'back then' in the Pleistocene era, and I don't miss the size, the weight, and the unbelievably lo-fi room rattle one of those big heavy ba++++ds could induce, though in the right room it was fun to watch the clean empty glasses waddle around the back bar on the right night.

I even bi-amped with one for the bottom pass, and learned right quick that the Time Align that Ron W and Ed Long invented NEEDED to be invented. You'd hear the top pass, and the low end would ooze in behind it. Yippeee ! ! ! !

 

[pglaser01]

Still play a club that uses old Cerwin Vega folded horn subs ripped on their sides built into the stage basically. Mother of mercy it’s nothing but boom and mud…..

“hey we can just put you in the subs”

Nah I think I’m gonna use the cab for this one too

 

[JTE]

Just gonna point out without the folded horn (Acoustic 371) slap/pop bass would have probably never been invented.

I read something about Larry Graham developing that style to get more percussion and "snap" out of his 371's.

Not sure why he didn't just buy some SVT's, but maybe Sly was spending all the band's money on recreational items LOL.

Analogeezer

Except that:
A. He was using that technique well before My &The Family Stone, having started it when the drummer quit the church group he was playing in with his mother.

B. Before the Acoustics, he was using Fenders, often several of them, and still thumping with his thumb.

 

[Analogeezer]

Except that:
A. He was using that technique well before My &The Family Stone, having started it when the drummer quit the church group he was playing in with his mother.

B. Before the Acoustics, he was using Fenders, often several of them, and still thumping with his thumb.

I watched that documentary "Summer of Soul" about the concert series in the park in NYC and saw him using the Fenders, but he wasn't doing the slap/pop thing with Sly; but they didn't show the entire show, just segments of it.

Analogeezer

 

[Wasnex]

Could not find this listing when the thread started, but here ya go (brand new):

Jessup 1x18 dual folded Horn bass speaker cabinet electric matamp orange sunn | Jessup | Reverb

I could not find this design on the Jessup website, but I have frequently seen it available on Reverb.

This is not a recommendation or endorsement...in fact I would not consider this type of cab.

 

[PhatBottomBass1]

I ran across a pristine one of these the other day...Acoustic 115BK.

It has a warning: "Sound Pressure Levels of 120db within 10' of this Cabinet."

It doesn't have the tube on the top.

$189.99?

 

[Bflat]

There is just something about playing through this thats hard to beat:

 

[byacey]

But one could save a LOT of money from that approach by just finding a set of folded horn bins for sale. No doubt hundreds of thousands of these are lurking in basements and garages around the world.

Not sure if the OP even wants to haul these around, just wants to have that sound. If he wants to haul them around, well not everyone needs a 20 pound cabinet so if he wants to schlep the weight, well that's his prerogative.

I agree about the power = expensive bit, lumber was never actually that cheap though.

Analogeezer

If you look hard enough, you'll probably even find someone happy to give them to you, just so they can get rid of them with a clear conscience.