jamesblonde
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I’m curious to hear how that powered Gemini 1 cab is treating you? I’m in the market for one. Especially compared to using a matrix power amp with a regular guitar cab?
I’m curious to hear how that powered Gemini 1 cab is treating you? I’m in the market for one. Especially compared to using a matrix power amp with a regular guitar cab?
I’m in the U.S. and have the Elis8. I bought directly from RedSound in Italy. Arrived in 3 or 4 days: Italy to Dallas.
How do you like your Elis8 or 8's?
I'm really liking it I must say. I put some castors on the bottom the other day and its raised it up off the floor a little and it seems to have got rid of some horrible low end I was experiencing. I think that was from my wooden flooring at home.
I’ll probably check back with you in a couple of days and ask for another update haha thanks!
That's what I did.
I concur about the 8's, I haven't had the 10's. The ELIS.8 can pump out some major volume. They don't have the lows of a 10" but, then again, they're only 8" but it's surprising what they can put out. If someone has their Fractal running into the FOH system, then put the ELIS.8 in front of them next to their regular monitor cabinet, and be prepared for some nice acoustic-coupling.
This!
They have some on Reverb. I thought these were the sh*t, but I don't know about a cabinet someone else built, other than checking out the wood they used. That's tough not being able to see the cab in person. I guess I'm getting a couple CLRs
The Friedman's do sound like a regular amp. Punchy as hell. I am trying to decide if I need to upgrade. I've got GAS bad, so I could just get a new Turbo AXE FX. I've got the GAS sickness, bad.
Yeah I was looking at the celestions in the custom cabs (about $1200/pair), and there was only one Matrix GT100FX 2U poweramp I could find on ebay, with no description and not much detail on photographs ($1100). For what I do these Friedmans are killer +, and like that they sound more like an amp than the monitors I was using and then the Headrush. Headrush make a hell of a stereo system out of this macbook though! Every time I have some time and start getting into configuring the Axe itself, and the footswitches, I learn at least two or three things. I have so many killer presets, I am so happy to have a rig like this, this blows away anything I've ever had before especially in terms of versatility and clarity/definition of the tone. Saturday night, nothing going on, time to practice!
That's cool, it's great that you love them. It's kind of like when you dial an amp up to practice at home and it sounds great, but when you play with others, you have to modify it a lot to sit in the mix well. The Friedman's have a switch that take out some of the low end that sounds awesome at home, but gets it to cut through when you are playing in a live setting. That may be why it seems to sound dark, I was checking it out tonight messing with the switch and EQ, I have the 12s on stands.
The f12 diy cabs do sound great and definitely more like a guitar cab than PA and headrush. The best part about it was doing the DIY and saving a ton of money for a great sounding feeling rig. Two cabs and a cheap power amp ran me about $650. I still kept both headrush FRFR12s but only use them for music and backing tracks. Since they have lower frequency response than the f12 they work great for that.
Can you post pics of the cabs? I bet that was fun to do, very rewarding to make something for your gear yourself.
