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Topic: Peavey 115-E Cabinet questions
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David Higginbotham
Member From: Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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posted 29 April 2006 12:41 PM
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1-Were these cabinets ported? If yes, where and size?..Duh! Nevermind on this one..answered2-Were they designed for front or rear speaker mounting? If rear mounted, was entry from front or back of cabinet?...nevermind on this one either...answered 3-Type of wood and thickness? Baffle the same type and thickness? 4-Can you get a good "lower end" response with these? Does anyone have close up pics they could send me?
Thanks for the help!
Dave
[This message was edited by David Higginbotham on 29 April 2006 at 01:19 PM.] |
David Higginbotham
Member From: Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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posted 29 April 2006 01:12 PM
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Well at least one question was answered by a friend. I assumed these were closed back because of the angle of the photos. They are open back which eliminates the ported question. Thanks Bob for the help!
 
[This message was edited by David Higginbotham on 29 April 2006 at 01:16 PM.] |
Bill Ferguson
Member From: Norcross, GA USA
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posted 29 April 2006 01:43 PM
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These cabinets will be in my possession in a few day.I believe they are closed back. Look at where the speaker jacks are. Bill |
Jerry Roller
Member From: Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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posted 29 April 2006 01:58 PM
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David, the cabinets are open back, rear loaded constructed of what appears to be 3/4 particle board probably a very dense material, may even be a fibercore material but it is some sort of dense product not plywood. The back has a panel covering the bottom half of the opening with what appears to be 1/2" plywood. The speaker is mounted on a 3/4 baffle same material as the rest of the cabinet. The size and construction of these cabinets lend an extremely good bass response. You can almost feel this in handling them. They are a little large for ease of handling but they are a very good sounding cabinet.
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David Doggett
Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 29 April 2006 02:00 PM
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These big cabs are designed for bass guitar, and so they will definitely have good low end. The only problem with them is that most of the extra low end response is too low to be of much use for steel. Rick Johnson and Marrs make steel speaker cabs that are a little smaller (about the size of a NV400), and have all the low response a steel needs. But if you don't mind the extra size, there is no reason these bass cabs wont work fine for steel.------------------
Student of the Steel: Zum uni, Fender tube amps, squareneck and roundneck resos, tenor sax, keyboards |
David Higginbotham
Member From: Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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posted 29 April 2006 04:08 PM
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Jerry, David, Roger, and Bob, I really appreciate your help and the pics that were sent to me. I am going to build a duplicate with a BW 1501-4 and try it out with a Roland GP-100 and Mosvalve 7200 Bass Head. Hopefully it will be a good combination!
Thanks
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Jack Stoner
Sysop From: Inverness, Florida
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posted 30 April 2006 03:09 AM
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I have a set of custom built (I built) clones of the Nashville 112E. The only difference is the size of the cabinet between the 112E and 115E. They are "partially" open back and the speakers in the factory cabinets were rear mounted. The Nashville 115E is what Herby Wallace uses. The Nashville 112E is what Jeff Newman used. The 115E used the BW 1501-4 (4 ohms) speaker - same as in a later Nashville 400/1000/2000 and the speaker in the 112E's were 1203-4 BW speakers. |
David Higginbotham
Member From: Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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posted 30 April 2006 07:38 AM
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Thanks Jack! I have a 1203 that I am currently using in another cabinet that I built a couple of years ago. But, I may build a duplicate of the 112-E if I like the way my duplicate of the 115-E sounds. Bob Knight was kind enough to send me pics of the 112-E's and Roger Kelly was kind enough to send pics of the 115-E's. This combined with Jerry Roller's detailed info and having found the dimensions on previous posts, I should be able to come up with something similiar.
Thanks,
Dave
[This message was edited by David Higginbotham on 30 April 2006 at 07:39 AM.] |
Jack Stoner
Sysop From: Inverness, Florida
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posted 30 April 2006 09:32 AM
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I front mounted mine, but the overall cabinet dimensions are the same as the Nashville 112E. They sound great so I don't think the difference between front/rear mount really made any difference. There is a frontal picture of mine on my web site/equipment page. I need to udate the picture as they were taken with black carpet material. I had some problems with that material and recovered them using a heavier "charcoal" carpet material. The difference in coverings didn't affect anything either. Mine have a recessed handle on top just like the Peavey's. www.gulfcoaststeelguitar.com |
Jerry Overstreet
Member From: Louisville Ky
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posted 30 April 2006 12:20 PM
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With all due respect David, I don't believe the Nashville 112E and 115E cabs are bass enclosures at all but were in fact designed for pedal steel applications. I respectfully defer to Mike Brown and/or other recognized experts in the field. [This message was edited by Jerry Overstreet on 30 April 2006 at 12:23 PM.] |
David Higginbotham
Member From: Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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posted 30 April 2006 12:42 PM
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Jerry, that was my understanding as well, thus the "Nashville" in the name. I think David was just making a point that they are larger than the Marr's cabinets. I have not personally seen any open back cabinets used for Bass. Jack, very nice looking cabinets. If I can make mine look half that good I will be happy!
Thanks,
Dave[This message was edited by David Higginbotham on 30 April 2006 at 12:44 PM.] |
David Doggett
Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 30 April 2006 12:47 PM
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Jerry, you may be right. I'm just guessing they were designed as bass cabs because they are similar in size to other bass cabs. Also, Peavey has never had a steel amp head that needed seperate speakers have they? But I guess they could have intended the cabs for use as extension speakers for their steel combos. Or possibly they intended them to do double duty as bass or steel cabs. It just seems like people make bass cabs with the standard formulas based on the free resonance frequency of the speaker. This leads to those big bass cabs for 15s. It seems like people ignore that when they build combos and speaker cabs for steel and regular guitar, and we get smaller more convenient cabs. Yet the smaller cabs seem to work fine, because steel mostly an octave higher than bass. Maybe Mike B. will come along and clear this up at some point.[This message was edited by David Doggett on 30 April 2006 at 12:48 PM.] |
Jerry Overstreet
Member From: Louisville Ky
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posted 30 April 2006 01:46 PM
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No David, to my knowledge Peavey never had a rack mount amp head designed specifically for steel guitar. However, the Profex, Tfex, TTfex, were recognized as effective preamps for steel and endorsed and programmed by high profile steel players like Jeff Newman et al. and used in stereo configs. with their DPC line of power amps along with the Nashville "E" series cabs. They may have been based on bass cabs....I do not know. As an extreme gearhead who bought one of the earliest Mosvalve/Blue Tube rigs, I did considerable research on the availability of stereo gear for pedal steel and seem to remember some steel gear history info on the Peavey website that referred to these as designed for steel guitar. My recollection is increasingly suspect, the older I get though!  It was not my intent to spark debate or expose errors except as a point of information. Have a good day all. |
Paddy Long
Member From: Christchurch, New Zealand
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posted 30 April 2006 01:52 PM
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For what it's worth I have been using a pair of these Nashville 115E's for about 10 years or so with my DPC750 based rack rig -- these speaker cabinets were designed for Steel (w/BW1504's) and they are absolutely awesome sounding.... I defy anyone to find a better sounding set of speakers. They are also compact and reasonably light weight !!! Snap them up if they ever become available. |
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