Music Man HD-130 and Ampeg cab review

[jumbodbassman]

not alot stuffing in my cab.  it is open anyway.

I love the EV in mine

[drbassman]

not alot stuffing in my cab.  it is open anyway.

I love the EV in mine

Got the EV 15L you recommended.  I'm going for some simple stick on damping foam or something similar.

[hollowbody]

I just joined the HD130 club as well! I think that it's going to replace my V4, but I'll find out Saturday at the gig.

[drbassman]

not alot stuffing in my cab.  it is open anyway.

I love the EV in mine

Can't wait to try it out!

[drbassman]

I just joined the HD130 club as well! I think that it's going to replace my V4, but I'll find out Saturday at the gig.

Welcome, I love mine!  Takes me back to my old Ampeg B-15 days.

[drbassman]

So, I'm thinking I going to use the acoustic fiber rather than foam stick on stuff.  The fiber will be easier to work with if adjustments need to be made.  The Acousta-Stuf looks good.

[gearHed289]

Got the EV 15L you recommended.

My favorite speaker. Nice "snap" to it. Put a good amp behind it, and a mic in front of it, and you're good to go!

[amptech]

My favorite speaker. Nice "snap" to it. Put a good amp behind it, and a mic in front of it, and you're good to go!

Agree, very easy to get a good sound, records great with many different mikes too.
The MM115RH/EVM15L has grown to be my favourite allround cab. I think it brings out the best of
my amps and basses..

[jumbodbassman]

thinking about 2 ev's in my 212 cab.    any thoughts?

[amptech]

After hearing what the EVM15L did to my 115RH, along with the trouble I went through to make my 212 sound good, I´d try them right away. Unfortunately I was on a budget (and really had given the cab up) and ended up with Celestion Neo BN12/200 in my 212RH (as described earlier in this thread) and they sound great. But EVM12L´s are on the top of my list, I hope to find a couple of old ones and recone them one day.

[Granny Gremlin]

Those (EV 12s) can be had for 100-120 each freshly reconed from a local guy here.  He's always got a pile of them.  He'll even do weird things like custom cone weights (EVs tend to the lighter side for a bass woofer); whizzer,  metal dust cap (not a fan of those personally, but they do do something to the top end, I find).  He also sells recone kits.

Blown ones come up often enough on ebay; not exactly a rare speaker. Considering the shipping, it's cheaper (for me) to just buy reconed ones from this dude (I have 2 of them, plus 2 Peavey Black Widows and 4 custom made passive radiators from this dude in a pair of those old 4x12 Traynor line array PA columns; in parallel with a pair of old Sunn PA horns, they kicked ass as the front of house speakers in my studio/venue, RIP/dang landlord pulled the rug just as the place was starting to do well).

[amptech]

They are not that common over here. But then we still have plenty of Mullard tubes, so all is not lost

[drbassman]

Got some acousta-stuf on the way.  I'll post some pics when I do the upgrade.

[drbassman]

Finally had some time to work on the first cab.  Pulled out the Eminence speaker.  Nicely built cab really.



Put in the acoustic-stuf material and was on my way.



Here's the beastie I'm installing.......



Of course, no project ever goes as planned......  The beefy angular frame of the EV doesn't fit entirely inside the stock speaker hole!  Of course!  So the speaker rim sits about 1/4" above the hole while resting on the angled frame members.  I could fill the gap with additional plywood or cork ring, but then the speaker face will contact the grill and cause it to ride too high and not seal against its velcro fasteners.  Ugh!

The second choice is to carve out small notches at each mounting hole site so the frame passes through and lets the speaker rim fit flush as it should.

I'm going for option two.  A pain in the butt, but the best solution IMHO.  Talk me down if you have another solution I haven't thought of.  It's always something!!!!!

I'm gonna go mow the lawn and think about this some more.......

[Pilgrim]

I don't think notches will hurt anything, and they're not hard to fill if needed later.

If you have some long-ignored carbon paper hiding in the basement, you could use it between the speaker and cab to mark the places where the notches go.