I want a wall of fake speaker cabs

[rnolan]

Easiest way IMHO is to take a standard band black (which we've all used for many years), screen print (this is your forte isn't it Dante ??) some "small writing" Marshall cabs (the big writing sucks IMO) onto it, roll it up and bobs your uncle... Make one of the prints a rack of heads with LEDs...... the others just 2 x 4 x 12 cabs, hang it from 2 mic stands or from the lighting truss, cheap cheerful and effective

[MarshallJMP]

Or do like i do get 3 REAL stacks  :lol:

Say R "bobs your uncle" what does this mean? I hear that guy from the EEV blog saying that all the time.

[vansinn]

Whatever you do, make sure it's sturdy. Nothing more embarrassing than a 'wall of sound' that baffles in the winds..

[Dante]

bob's your uncle = there you go, or that's it, or you're done

For example:

Amp sound crappy? Change the tubes and Bob's your uncle

Car running rough? Get a tune up and Bob's your uncle

[MarshallJMP]

Ah ok thanks Dante.

[Chucky]

We've been looking into this theatrical apparatus for a while with my AC/DC band.
Now that we have cannons, a 4 foot tall bell, trigger pads for bell and cannon sounds, backdrops, etc.
We want to move things yet another notch up.

The cheap alternatives...welll...look cheap.
I've seen some nicely built fake double stacks where one of the bottom straight one
needs to be real...That's the one that gets miced up.
THe whole thing is made out of the same actual materials than real cabs:
Tolex, wood, piping, grilled cloth...etc.
They're only like 2 inch thick.
But these things aren't selling for cheap either.

For now (You can see in the videos) we use 2 angled cabs each that we stack sideways,
because obviously there is no room to stack them atop each other.
At least it's real cabs even if the arrangement looks a little uncommon.
Straight Marshall cabinets are hard to come by and people sell them at ridiculously high prices around here.  ???

[vansinn]

Say, those are some nice fake Marshall's..
Just needs some likewise nice fake amps on top - with LEDs - and Bob's gonna be your uncle too.. :lol:

[tomy]

Yeah really nice chucky, is that heavy ? Carrying all that stuff means several cars or...even a truck ! or maybe several ride which means you, guys, don't play too far ?

and that's true, you're right : "cheap solutions... looks cheap !"

[Dante]

I saw that guy's stuff online when searching myself. Great idea, but I drive a JEEP!! I'll need a trailer - haha

[rnolan]

Hey Dante, just do a convincing back drop, weight it at the bottom so it doesn't blow around, you already know how to make one, just screen print on stage blacks (and bob's you uncle LoL) Cheap, cheerful, relatively easy, and the audience won't care and you can just roll it up...

[Dante]

So, at ZZ Top practice last night, I express my plan to build a couple (or a few) 1x12 faux cabs that I can fold up and take with me. My bass player, a crafty MFer, walked me out to his warehouse where he has built two faux arrays of 4x12 speaker cabs. He has four fake 4x12s for each side of the stage!!! Already built! He says we can take them to gigs if we want to.

If I want to?!? Heeeeellll Yeah I want to! Sheesh, what kinda question is that?

He built them for his AC/DC tribute band. He also wants to put together a Foo Fighters tribute band (I got dibs on playing guitar in that one)

[rnolan]

Great Dante  :thumb-up: :whoohoo!: . We used to do Monkey Wrench, great song to play live.

[Chucky]

So, at ZZ Top practice last night, I express my plan to build a couple (or a few) 1x12 faux cabs that I can fold up and take with me. My bass player, a crafty MFer, walked me out to his warehouse where he has built two faux arrays of 4x12 speaker cabs. He has four fake 4x12s for each side of the stage!!! Already built! He says we can take them to gigs if we want to.

If I want to?!? Heeeeellll Yeah I want to! Sheesh, what kinda question is that?

He built them for his AC/DC tribute band. He also wants to put together a Foo Fighters tribute band (I got dibs on playing guitar in that one)

You lucky SOB!!!  :thumb-up:

[GuitarBuilder]

I like the washing machine backdrop that Rush uses:



Complete with flames!   :banana-guitar: :banana-guitar:

[Dante]

I'm more of a rotisserie chicken backdrop guy (notice, it's mic'd - lol)