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This does indeed look like a good candidate for what I’m after...
I've got a Barefaced Compact (1x15 with ports), and it's nice, but it's not particularly tight or defined.
I also have a Vanderkley 2x10 with tweeter and ports - it's rated at 1200W and it's an utter monster. A few here have heard it live (just ask @slacker) and it's an immense bass sound for such a diminutive cab.
With bass, you have to forget all the rules you know and love with conventional cab and speaker thinking. Speaker size means little, it's all about how cabs are constructed, what the speakers are made of and how they are tuned, and what amp drives them.
Flat out the 10's in my Vanderkley cab are scary. Proper scary.
I've played a CMD-102P and believe me, the last thing you're going to be thinking is "hmmm, it's lacking a bit of bass.." - for the money, given its weight and size (and the handy wedge shape angling it upward a bit) it's a really good bit of kit
Not a cheap package/combo but nice, compact, light and toneful.
Taking the "forgetting all the rules" thought to extremes, would a 1 x 10" cab (or even a combo with a single 10) be workable?
I'm thinking here of a quietish band (I play in a loudish band and a quietish one - the latter does mainly ASB standards with a female singer. It would probably only ever be the the quiet one I'd play bass in).
If you find yourself around the Midlands, get yourself to Bass Direct for a choice of high end gear (lots if portable choice) and a great selection of bass stuff.
The GK stuff is good and whilst the TC gear has proved popular, they have suffered reliability problems.
Another 1x10" combo option to add to the Markbass that Bridgehouse mentioned would be the Ibanez Promethean.
An Aguilar 350 through a One10 would probably beat it though!
As well, all this has got me thinking along a slightly tangential line: are there possibilities for workable "multi-purpose" rigs??
For example:
1. An AX8 or a Helix plus a Yamaha DXR10 is a well thought of solution for guitar, but would it also work well for bass?
2. Forgetting about basses for a moment, would a Barefaced One10 cab plugged into the extension socket of a Fender Princeton be a good option for electric guitar in venues where the Princeton alone is struggling?
3. Would it work for quietish jazz or acoustic gigs to put a bass though a column PA system like a Bose L1 (maybe asking a lot of the subs and crossover?)?
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