Barefaced Big Twin

- Collection from our showroom ONLY -

Overall condition is excellent, there is one area of damage on the top of the cabinet, one hole in the top on the cab about the size of a golf ball. This is currently covered with some black tape but please get it touch for a photo of this.

This is not your normal bass cab - not even close! There are other 2-way and 3-way cabs with midrange drivers. There are other cabs with relatively high-excursion woofers in low tuned cabs. There are even other cabs with complicated crossovers. But there are none with this combination of weaponry. But what sets this cab apart in tone and performance?

Deep tight bottom, rich punchy mids and smooth clear treble...

...and enough volume to thunder through the loudest rock or metal band. As our customers know all our Barefaced cabs can play LOUD, especially for their size - and unsurprisingly our biggest cab goes stupid loud. All the complex design features combine to give the Big Twin the most potent combination of bottom, punch and clarity of any production bass cab. Tired of battling bad venue acoustics? Tired of your tone being great at small gigs but falling apart when it gets loud? Tired of not being able to hear yourself? This is the solution. Reclaim your space in the mix, whatever your tonal leanings!

The lows - high excursion woofers and a huge port

Each 12" woofer in the Big Twin can individually move as much air as two normal 12"s (not cheap 12"s, the nice 12"s found in all the usual fancy name cabs). This means that the 2x12" Big Twin can put out as much loudness in the bottom as a good 4x12"

The 'over-sized' enclosure lets these woofers resonate easily at low frequencies so you get much deeper cleaner bass response - like that from a really really nice PA subwoofer - clean, pure and tight, no boom or mud, just thunder at your fingertips! The vast port area means that even at ear punishing SPL you retain that fatness and depth in the bottom - when the air in normal sized ports is moving so fast that you're losing most of that bottom to friction and turbulence. Doesn't matter if you don't play LOUD or don't want massive lows at lower volumes but if you do then it really does - if you love reggae bottom one day and metal volume the next then this cab does it all.

The mids - pistonic woofers and a fantastic midrange driver

The woofers in the Big Twin don't just woof - they push out very punchy and quick mids and then before their dispersion narrows or they become non-pistonic our high-order crossover transfers the load to our high output midrange driver. Most midrange drivers found in bass cabs are simple closed back models (easier to build a cab like that because you don't need a sub-enclosure) which exhibit much higher distortion and less smooth response, and/or have lower sensitivity and power handling. The benefits of our superior components and design really shine through on loud gigs, especially when the rest of the band is treading on your sonic space and the acoustics are being difficult. Other cabs may sound similar in the bedroom but it's the tone on the gig that counts!

The highs - that low THD midrange driver and tweeter

For most bass players the smooth sweet treble output from out midrange driver is perfect for them - it remains very clean and the treble roll-off is remarkably consistent both on and off-axis. Turning up the tweeter shows how high-fidelity the Big Twin is - play some recorded music through it and marvel at how it makes your home stereo sound muddy (unless you have a really really expensive hi-fi!) If you need more upper midrange and treble output there is a switchable attenuator on the midrange part of the crossover, which effectively gives you a 5dB boost from 1kHz, for when you need more bite to cut through. Note that the tweeter can be run anywhere from completely off to full blast, using the continuous rotary attenuator to tweak it.