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anyone use these for fender bass ? the group i'm in wants to switch to these.(we are a low volume folk/bluegrass group).
they sound good for the acoustic instruments but i'm wonderingcan they handle fender bass ?
do they fill a room ?
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These are another fine marketing effort by Bose. Marketing is their best area of expertise, I believe.Bose has "subwoofer" with this system, but you'd definitely be limiting your use of such a system to very low volume venues.
Perhaps the appeal of these is the way they break down into a very transportable package. I remember a speaker system designer saying one time, "Would you rather empty a swimming pool with a tea spoon or a bucket?" With this Bose system I think you'd be using a tea spoon.
Your best bet is to steer clear of Bose pro audio
Bose properly spelled is Blowse and im not kidding
Bose sucks..........You guys can do much better with self powered Mackies or
Jbl Eons.A 15" two way will give your bass justice
Im only mentioning the above because Im assuming you guys are on
a budgethttp://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=live/search/detail/base_pid/600200/
Keep the Visa card in your pocket, stay away from Guitar Center and your problems will go away.
Tom
plans for the bose have been scraped. i myself had no faith in them.i played bass through one just to pacify the band guys and it couldnt handle it at a gig type volume.(it was a hi/end bass w/ skinny strings,so my old p/bass w/ flatwound strings will kill it.
thanks fellas, i just needed the ammo (other opinions) to show these guys.
for the kind of money (approx $10k for 5 of them) these pigs will cost you could get just about any system you would ever need.we have a small system (2 mackie powered cabs,mackie 12 ch mixer and some gizmos) that's fine for 99% of the gigs we do and i tell them it's no use changing now and besides,5 of the bose units would be more work to set up than the small system.
Well..you've got cheap Bose electronics, coupled with an array of cheap small drivers on a stick, with a cheap bandpass box with an abysmal attempt at a woofer inside it (can we say one-note bass?), selling for way more than it should thanks to Bose's only real skill, marketing overpriced underperforming schlock. I've heard them twice...a keyboard sounded lifeless and flat, and forget it for electric bass - sounded like a lizard fart. I have to laugh at their ads showing a guitar player playing through one...you need a Line 6 POD modeling processor (barf). Sorry, no glowy things, no pluggy guitar into it. :-)And there's no way to make that danged pole rotate fast and slow, so don't even bring that horrid thing near my B-3. :-D
And they want $2K for that piece of crap? I bought an Ampeg B-25 50-watt 2x12 tube bass combo at a yard sale for $10 that'll eat it up and spit out the plastic shards. Bleah. :D
Todd in Cheesecurdistan
If so, you could eventually make a "qualitative upgrade" to something like the Meyer UPA. They sound great. They're self-powered. They can be arrayed, so you could add units down the road as your SPL requirements increase. You would definitely want a sub with these. One of Meyer's own subs would blend perfectly. Soundwise, these blow the Mackies out of the water... with more SPL capability. They are expensive, but you mentioned $10k, so I thought I'd at least mention the possibility.
and add a "HURRUMMMFFF!"problems may not go away, but won't be getting new ones!
good advice.
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