Wow, Ark Amps look and sound delicious!

[pzaxtl]

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I took a gander at your website and some of those cabinets are GORGEOUS!

Of course, no one builds an amp simply to be seen. After listening to the clips, I gotta say, your amps sound killer, too.

Beautiful looking amps with tones to match -- sounds like a winner!

 

[Ark]

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I took a gander at your website and some of those cabinets are GORGEOUS!

Of course, no one builds an amp simply to be seen. After listening to the clips, I gotta say, your amps sound killer, too.

Beautiful looking amps with tones to match -- sounds like a winner!

Well Merry Christmas to you too!!!!

Thanks so much, for the pat on the back, I need it sometimes

 

[PVFan]

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they are gorgeous of course; would look great and add heaps of class to any studio or stage. Some models are even quite affordable for regular kids like me! If they sound as promised I'm interested. Maybe when I get some money.

The cabs with the different size speaker holes reminded of an idea I haven't seen: different size speakers in the same cab, like a 6", 8" or 10", and a 12" and a 15" or somesuch, that possibly get their assigned freq ranges from a crossover.

Ark, you guys ever try anything like that? Has anyone in guitar amp-dom ever tried anything like that? Has anyone ever tried to stick a driver in a long, intestinal tube like Bose sometimes does, but in a guitar amp speaker cabinet?

 

[Ark]

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they are gorgeous of course; would look great and add heaps of class to any studio or stage. Some models are even quite affordable for regular kids like me! If they sound as promised I'm interested. Maybe when I get some money.

The cabs with the different size speaker holes reminded of an idea I haven't seen: different size speakers in the same cab, like a 6", 8" or 10", and a 12" and a 15" or somesuch, that possibly get their assigned freq ranges from a crossover.

Ark, you guys ever try anything like that? Has anyone in guitar amp-dom ever tried anything like that? Has anyone ever tried to stick a driver in a long, intestinal tube like Bose sometimes does, but in a guitar amp speaker cabinet?

We haven't done the bose thing exactly , but what we have done has a little of that effect. Our next cab is a 12"+10" cab to match the new Model D and A-28, no crossover needed as they just naturally do what they do and blend nicely.

The proto-type Theile cab that is at our other shop in Windsor has a single 12" 300 watt Eminence PA driver that sounds killer, it has two tuned ports.

I have a video I am editing today which has me playing a Model D head into the Theile cab, I will put it on youtube when it's done.


Our Model B cab is by far the most 3d and resonant sounding cab I have ever laid ears on, that thing just doesn't make sense how good it sounds

It is built like a wood barrel with narrow 1/2" thick strips of wood glued side by side to make the rounded sides which cancels standing waves and resonates like a drum at the same time.

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

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What are the dimensions of the Model B cab?

 

[StillLearnin']

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Our Model B cab is by far the most 3d and resonant sounding cab I have ever laid ears on, that thing just doesn't make sense how good it sounds

Any vid's or clips of how that cab sounds?

 

[Rich_T]

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Ah I'd only break 'em. I'll stick to the square ones. Sure look pretty though.

 

[Ark]

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Any vid's or clips of how that cab sounds?

Not yet, I don't have one at my shop -yet, I do wiring here and testing/burning in of circuits. I might try to get one of our artists in Nashville to do a youtube video for us as they just recently tried it and loved it to pieces

World Music Nashville has the one they both tried.

Most of our dealers have one in stock, there is a list of dealers on our website.

 

[Ark]

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What are the dimensions of the Model B cab?

Don't have one here right now but my Model C 1x12 proto-type is similar and it is:
23" wide x 18 1/2" tall by 13 1/2" deep

 

[BloodRose]

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they are gorgeous of course; would look great and add heaps of class to any studio or stage. Some models are even quite affordable for regular kids like me! If they sound as promised I'm interested. Maybe when I get some money.

The cabs with the different size speaker holes reminded of an idea I haven't seen: different size speakers in the same cab, like a 6", 8" or 10", and a 12" and a 15" or somesuch, that possibly get their assigned freq ranges from a crossover.

Ark, you guys ever try anything like that? Has anyone in guitar amp-dom ever tried anything like that? Has anyone ever tried to stick a driver in a long, intestinal tube like Bose sometimes does, but in a guitar amp speaker cabinet?

Makes me think of those bazooka tubes they put in cars for bass..

 

[Ark]

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Makes me think of those bazooka tubes they put in cars for bass..

Yeah, our (Randy Fay's) newest invention is a theile style 1x12 non-resonant
cab that has two tubes for the tuned porting, very accurate sound from this thing, like a studio monitor for guitar!

 

[J Moose]

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Ark, you guys ever try anything like that? Has anyone in guitar amp-dom ever tried anything like that? Has anyone ever tried to stick a driver in a long, intestinal tube like Bose sometimes does, but in a guitar amp speaker cabinet?

Yeah, that's been done!

Acoustic made one in the early '70s... solid state with tremolo & reverb. A very odd beast...

The wood panels reflect the sound from the speakers.

 

[Ark]

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Yeah, that's been done!

Acoustic made one in the early '70s... solid state with tremolo & reverb. A very odd beast...

The wood panels reflect the sound from the speakers.

Where did you get that picture from? I thought of doing a cab much like that but didn't realize it had already been done!!!

 

[J Moose]

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Where did you get that picture from?

I could tell you but then I'd have to kill myself...



hah hah


AFAIK, theres only three known examples of the Acoustic 'Tube' in existence and I know where all of 'em are... or at least two of three. That one, in the picture belongs to superstar producer Sylvia Massy (Tool, Deftones, Prince etc.) and the second belongs to a mutual friend. The third amp was, and probably still is in the attic of a music store that time forgot in Arizona. I saw it there last time out, about two years ago... and can't imagine it would've moved unless someone who was raging for that beast did some serious detective work & tracked it down.

 

[Ark]

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Here is the new home video I did of the Ark D-24 pictured below:

 

[rammer69]

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Yeah, our (Randy Fay's) newest invention is a theile style 1x12 non-resonant
cab that has two tubes for the tuned porting, very accurate sound from this thing, like a studio monitor for guitar!

i have a PHAEZ amp built by Randy Fay last summer, it Kicks A$$

 

[Ark]

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i have a PHAEZ amp built by Randy Fay last summer, it Kicks A$$

No doubt about that!!! He was the main designer on this amp too

 

[Hoss]

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WoW man...those amps are some serious pieces of artwork!

the description of the Model C definitely peaks my interest!!!

 

[Ark]

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WoW man...those amps are some serious pieces of artwork!

the description of the Model C definitely peaks my interest!!!

Thanks, I will try to get a video for the Model C in the next couple weeks, the headbox for my personal C is getting finished as we speak, it will be pretty wild looking for sure

 

[Lewguitar]

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I think they're gorgeous - all of 'em.

But then, I'm a furniture designer!

http://www.boulderfurniturearts.com