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12-28-2021, 12:01 AM
I've built some detuned cabs for guitar amps and really like them. I have been planning on eventually building one for bass and made the mistake of reading online to see what other people had used for speakers. With guitar you can find lots of positive experiences.
For bass I mostly found a bunch of people suspicious of the concept but not educated on it nor had they tried it. Bass players seem far more married to traditional cab designs and software modeling of frequency responses than guitarists are. However, one point came up over and over. It the concern that the speaker would over extrude unless without the pressure on the cone of sealed back or tuned bass reflex design. I'm skeptical of this notion since standard bass speakers are not hi-fi acoustics suspension speakers but I'm curious as to whether selection of speaker for a detuned bass cabinet requires any special consideration.
Is there anything special I should be looking for in bass driver for detuned cab?
For bass I mostly found a bunch of people suspicious of the concept but not educated on it nor had they tried it. Bass players seem far more married to traditional cab designs and software modeling of frequency responses than guitarists are. However, one point came up over and over. It the concern that the speaker would over extrude unless without the pressure on the cone of sealed back or tuned bass reflex design. I'm skeptical of this notion since standard bass speakers are not hi-fi acoustics suspension speakers but I'm curious as to whether selection of speaker for a detuned bass cabinet requires any special consideration.
Is there anything special I should be looking for in bass driver for detuned cab?
