Compact Bass Cabinet Design

The maddening part of shopping for any bass gear is making sense of what is hype and marketing jargon and what is important.

Compact bass cabinet design. Today we are going to show you some of the best bass cabinets housing 15 inch speakers. Our cabinets are the finest in the industry with a price tag musicians can afford. The design parameters are somewhat different and the approach is very different. There are 12 inch speaker cabs and then there are 15 inch bass cabinets.

Bigger speaker equals more warmth and tone width. The design can be used with wide choice of 15 loudspeakers. See more ideas about speaker cab speaker speaker plans. The fearful cabinets are also a bit unorthodox though less so than the bfm cabinets in that instead of a 15 horn cabinet you get a 15 or 12 subwoofer using a top of the line eminence driver paired with a 6 midrange driver depending on the design it can be either an eminence or an 18sound midrange and an optional horn tweeter paired.

Bass cabinets are a whole other beast. Ciare 15 bass reflex cabinet that is compact and highly portable. Since these designs use the vent cabinet resonance for the lowest bass as the cabinet volume is cut in half the vent gets twice as long to keep the same resonant frequency. The speaker design is ideal for bass guitar as well a pa subwoofer applications.

Sealed and ported enclosures. A relatively compact and simple enclosure design that produced too much bass this was a problem that could be solved with a slight redesign. In most bass applications the vented design bass reflex is used nowdays. The revsound ultralite line of bass guitar enclosures is the result of seven months of design and refinement followed by three months of testing and real.

These are the kinds of things you can do with your own designs. Plus every manufacturer uses slightly different terminology. I ll try to make sense of it for you as it relates to bass cabinets. And the feedback was that the bass was too much.

The bass cabinet enclosure. The thiele small parameters make the design of these systems almost cook book easy in the bass range. However the quality of the transient response is not as good as in a sealed cabinet. Revsound was founded by musician engineer david luke 30 years ago for musicians.

If you go for very deep bass from a very small cabinet the vent. If you are wondering why the answer is pretty simple. A lot of bass players opt for the latter. May 17 2020 explore dennis perusse s board speaker cab plans on pinterest.

For bass enclosures two designs seem to work the best. The intent of this document is to lay out the rational for a back loaded horn design process and to propose a speaker enclosure that is relatively small.