From dougb415@yahoo.com Sat Jun 21 09:09:08 2003
Subject:Re: Leslies with 12" Woofers

Hmm, I'd better tell our bass player about this... he plays 5-string bass thru a 4-10 cabinet, and somehow he has us all fooled into thinking that we're hearing low bass... sounds pretty low to these ears ;-)

-Doug

Steve wrote:
Now to address the previous comment about modern bass speaker technology. I
agree with the previous poster's comments about how well 10 and 12-inch
speakers do in bass applications, up to a point. An array of 12 or 10 inch
speakers can do very well at reproducing what an electric bass can put out,
down to 50 or 60 HZ. Below that, the smaller cone just cannot resonate slow
enough to reproduce the sound well. If you look at the frequency response
specs of a 2 x 10 or 4 x 10 cabinet, their response starts to drop off at
around 60 HZ, and it's WAY down at 40 HZ. The problem is that the
fundamental for low E on a bass is about 41 HZ, and for low B on a 5-string
it's around 32 HZ. Translation: that 4 x 10 cabinet can't reproduce the
fundamental for anything lower than the open A string on a bass, so what
you'll hear is just the harmonics. With a tuned bass reflex cabinet you can
extend the response curve down a little bit, but not far enough to get those
low fundamentals.

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