My Cab is Bigger Than Your Cab

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:27 am

So did the Marshall myth become a mythus?

thehenderson · Post by **thehenderson** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:44 am

I've always found it hard to find a good looking guitar cab (to my eyes)

The best looking guitar cab I've ever seen is this one, it's one of the original one piece "full stacks" made for the who, but it's since been gutted and had the baffle replaced with just 4 12inch speakers. Looks coooooool. Essentialy a 4 12 in an 8 10 box.

Post by **GrantB** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:07 pm

Hey thar, that be Weezer down the bottom there. They're so great! So are you saying that Weezer own a Who cab? That's pretty rock n roll.

Polar Bear · Post by **Polar Bear** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:17 pm

what's more amazing is that they actually still exist. dirty ole' pete was not exactly gentle on equipment.

Timi · Post by **Timi** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:22 pm

thehenderson wrote:I've always found it hard to find a good looking guitar cab (to my eyes)

The best looking guitar cab I've ever seen is this one, it's one of the original one piece "full stacks" made for the who, but it's since been gutted and had the baffle replaced with just 4 12inch speakers. Looks coooooool. Essentialy a 4 12 in an 8 10 box.

Pretty sure the original full stack was an 8x12, but they also made 8x10s, and some of them were done as oversized 4x12s for The Who.

thehenderson · Post by **thehenderson** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:02 pm

Weezer own two of them I think

Converge has another I think?

There are only four in the world apparently? originals, that is

Timi · Post by **Timi** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:38 pm

6 isnt it?

I think they also only made about 6 of the 8x12 ones too.

ash · Post by **ash** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:03 pm

I have pictures of a red and/or purple one owned by the Groove Tubes dude. No scanner though.

thehenderson · Post by **thehenderson** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:46 pm

oh man, red and purple

the ultimate in phallic cabness?

AmpShop · Post by **AmpShop** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:29 pm

There were only a handful of 8x12 cabs made.

There were plenty of 8x10 cabs made - some had the baffle/configuration changed to 4x12.

The pics are above are 8x10 cabs - the 8x12 cabs looked different to that.

thehenderson · Post by **thehenderson** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:59 am

Oh really?

Hmm, I can't find pictures of 8 12s anywhere other than old old the who pictures

B45-12 · Post by **B45-12** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:10 am

I had a huge cab back in 1969 - to this day I do not know what the single speaker was but it was ginormous - easily something like 24 -36 inches across. I bought it off the school (think if was for $20) and we hooked it up to a gasp 20 watt valve amp!!! Great sound.

Anyway the cab it was in was something like 5 feet high by 4 feet wide and made of inch thick pine - took three of us to lift the blasted thing! I sold it to another mate who offered me $50 mainly because I could not see how the heck I was ever going to shift it about. Somehow he managed to pick it up.

Think, on reflection, it was probably an old movie speaker from the early 50's.

Post by Bg » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:08 am

dirty ole' pete may have been unforgiving on his guitars but lets face it, he played silvertones live - cheapest mass produced stuff he could trash

Its only rock 'n roll.... any cabs he trashed were probably stripped of the speakers first

Terexgeek · Post by **Terexgeek** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:22 am

Yes, it's very nice, but how many backs have permanently put out by this behemoth???

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:51 am

Probably the best cabinet I ever had was one I built in about 1971. If you know the old Bowl of Brookland sound towers, my cab was like a smaller version of that and designed by Baden Winchcombe, who was the designer for the BoB towers.

I had a JBL K145 in the top, ported and throated down a white formica (backed with steel) curved bottom half. It had a brilliant sound, but was just too big to handle. I played a number of differnt heads through it while I had it and it handled them all well.