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Robert Harper
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Posted 9 Sep 2015 12:39 pm |
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What is the difference between a Nashville 400 and a Vegas 400?
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Danny Letz
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Posted 9 Sep 2015 4:05 pm
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| Two things I know about. The Vegas has a larger cabinet and a second channel. Good amp for steel and even better for someone who doubles on guitar or fiddle. |
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George Kimery
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Posted 9 Sep 2015 6:40 pm What's the Difference?
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For what it's worth, I was in Herb Remington's steel guitar shop right after I had bought the Nashville 400. I was not all that thrilled with it. I didn't feel that the bass was up to snuff. Herb said I should have got a Vegas, that it was in a larger cabinet and had better low end.
There is a post in electronics on May 15 by Brad Sarno concerning the design of these two cabinets.
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DG Whitley
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Posted 12 Sep 2015 8:43 am
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George, please feel free to correct me if this is not Brad's post you were referring to:
Brad Sarno wrote:
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The Nashville 400 grew out of the Session 400 LTD. The whole idea of putting a 15" speaker in that small box designed for a 12" came from a project that Bob Mason at Scotty's once did to a Peavey Pacer.
But the math and cabinet design theory is NOT good with that approach. The 15" speaker in the small, open-back box kind of kills the low end. There are ways to re-tune via porting to make the small box sound full and "correct" for a 15", but the Nashville 400 naturally kills the bass strictly because it's bad cabinet design. Sure it works and some prefer to tame the bass, but like Herb suggested, the Vegas has the "correct" sized cabinet for a 15" in an open back design that will give the full bass response.
Even in a little Princeton Reverb amp designed for a 10" speaker. People like to put 12" speakers in there, but again the bad design math kind of ruins the bass response. That little amp has bigger, fuller bass with a 10" speaker compared to a 12". The math is in the relationship of the speaker diameter AND the cabinet. They go hand in hand.
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