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212 cabinet [message #26318] Sun, 24 September 2017 21:35 Go to next message
shawncfc is currently offline  shawncfc
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Hi i was thinking of picking up a kustom silver 212 cabinet to use for bass. anyone ever put in some new 12 inch bass speakers in a cab and how did it sound.

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Re: 212 cabinet [message #26319 is a reply to message #26318] Mon, 25 September 2017 06:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
stevem is currently offline  stevem
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I play Bass and my first Kustom was a K100 piggie back with 2-12" s and it sounded great and would surly blow away a 2-12 Fender Bassman!

There are many good 12" Bass drivers that would work with the internal volume of that cabinet , but if your going to use a k100 head they want a 8 ohm load which means using 2 16 ohm drivers and that's where the hang up is as there are not many 12" 16 ohm drivers to pick from that will work for Bassi in that size cabinet!

My two picks would be the off the shelf Eminence Man-O-war driver in 16 ohms, or call Weber and have them put you together a Bass driver.

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Re: 212 cabinet [message #26322 is a reply to message #26319] Mon, 25 September 2017 13:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
shawncfc is currently offline  shawncfc
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I have the k200 b head. i am going to wire it either 4 or 8 . depends on if i decide i want to add another cabinet or not . Ill probably go with 4 ohm

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Re: 212 cabinet [message #26324 is a reply to message #26318] Tue, 26 September 2017 06:03 Go to previous message
stevem is currently offline  stevem
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Well using a K200 head changes everything!

In that case I would use 2 Eminence Basslite S2012 drivers that are 8 ohms and will work well with the 2-12" size cab wired in parallel which wil give the needed 4 ohm load on the head.

The only fly in the ointment is that two 8 ohm driver can not be wired into a 8 ohm load, so if you might run another cab then that will need to be drivien off of a separate power amp.

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