Anyone here have a Jet City Iso cab?

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Anyone here have a Jet City Iso cab?

Yeah. I have a Class 5 and a Valve Junior. They don't sound anything like my big vintage heads.

And never will! I use my 2W and 5W heads for 95% of my recordings, but am also glad I still have a 100W Dual Rec in the wings because my smaller amps simply cannot replicate that sound. It's more than just preamp gain ...

A quick word of caution, though: I usually wind the Dual Rec up to 4-5 to get the tone and response I like and even with the insane measures I have taken: GRAMMA atop a Black Diamond Racing The Shelf, Auralex foam inside and sound damping blankets outside, placing the iso cab in a closet ... it is STILL dang loud!

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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Follow up to this thread as I have been recording guitar tracks this weekend. Here's a photo showing how I decouple my iso cab from the floor: The Black Diamond Racing shelf goes down first; this is a mass-load isolation platform that weighs about 40 lbs. I place the GRAMMA on top of that and the result is zero LF bleed to the apartments around us.

 

[Demanic]

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I just think that in a smaller, well prepped room, a low watt amp can be recorded to sound a lot bigger than it is, upon playback. Really, if you want to push a half stack or two, or more, you just have to have the space to crank them in.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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SPL is SPL. In a 'well prepared' room, one can record ANYTHING. This is about making the most out of NO room. For anyone other than yourself, hearing several hours of the same guitar parts, even at 65dB, is enough to seriously annoy.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Anyone here have a Jet City Iso cab?

I just think that in a smaller, well prepped room, a low watt amp can be recorded to sound a lot bigger than it is, upon playback. Really, if you want to push a half stack or two, or more, you just have to have the space to crank them in.

I know what you're saying and I don't disagree with you, but there isn't a 5w amp that is voiced like my model T. Sometimes I have ideas for songs that don't sound as good through my Class 5 as they do through my vintage Fender Bassman. I'm trying to devise a way to have that option whenever I want it, y'know?

SPL is SPL. In a 'well prepared' room, one can record ANYTHING. This is about making the most out of NO room. For anyone other than yourself, hearing several hours of the same guitar parts, even at 65dB, is enough to seriously annoy.

Heh, exactly. There's already lots of soundproofing foam on the walls and ceilings and bass traps in the corners... I like your idea about the Gramma and Shelf too.

 

[jtougas]

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The thread that wouldn't diiiiiiiieeeeeee....

So, Guitar Center is selling these @ $199 for the weekend, and I'm thinking of picking one up, and swapping out the speaker to be able to run my Egnater and other low wattage amps through it, since my current recording/practice space is Right Next to my son's bedroom. Maybe when the recording space is set up in the basement in a year or two, get a higher wattage amp to push it further.

What say Ye?


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[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Anyone here have a Jet City Iso cab?

Great deal; I say go for it!

 

[Demanic]

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SPL is SPL. In a 'well prepared' room, one can record ANYTHING. This is about making the most out of NO room. For anyone other than yourself, hearing several hours of the same guitar parts, even at 65dB, is enough to seriously annoy.

I can't argue with that.

 

[Demanic]

Re: Anyone here have a Jet City Iso cab?

The thread that wouldn't diiiiiiiieeeeeee....

So, Guitar Center is selling these @ $199 for the weekend, and I'm thinking of picking one up, and swapping out the speaker to be able to run my Egnater and other low wattage amps through it, since my current recording/practice space is Right Next to my son's bedroom. Maybe when the recording space is set up in the basement in a year or two, get a higher wattage amp to push it further.

What say Ye?


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I like my Jet City Picovalve. If the Iso cab is anything as good, it should suffice.

 

[jtougas]

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When I approached my wife about the purchase, and explained what it did, she blinked at me and said "So you could play as loud as you want, and you could listen to it through your headphones? Buy it."

I said, "Well, not quite, it's just a lot quieter in the room, but records like it's at full volume."

She said "Buy it, you'll be able to use it for a while."

I love her. :banana:

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Anyone here have a Jet City Iso cab?

Perfect!

A cool trick you will probably want to employ when you have the cash is to buy a couple of large Auralex acoustic foam panels; they are not cheap and retail at about $80 each but you will only need 2. If you line the lower portion of the iso cab with the Auralex, it will cut another 40% of leakage and greatly reduce the bass 'whomp' coming out.

I have a thread on it someplace, you can find it here if you search.

It also tightens up the sound of your mic'd guitar tracks.

 

[jtougas]

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I've got some harddrive shipping foam that's pretty dense... I'll give that a shot...

 

[LatsMcGee]

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You guys keeping my dinosaur thread rolling, I love it...