Wow: My new Barefaced cabinet : Super Mini T

[Glenn Demichele]

Even though I pride myself in building my own speaker cabinets, YOLO so I bought a Barefaced Super Mini T. It's a single 600W 12" with an adjustable tweeter in a small ported cab with a "Top-Hat" hole for a speaker stand. I'm a bass player too and I've been following Barefaced for a while. These cabs are made in England and are rare in the US, but a bass buddy of mine has a super-twin that sounds great. I bought the smallest 12" cab they make, thinking I could double-duty it for steel and bass (not on the same gig though - I hope). Last night I played steel with a 11pc. pretty loud hard to describe "jazz-fusion" band. The cabinet was right behind me up on the drum riser. It sounded absolutely fantastic, and what's more amazing was that everyone in the band could hear me - everywhere on stage. I don't know how they got the dispersion to be as good as it is!
I had been using a 1501BW in a closed-back cab. With that, the mid-bump was hard to tame, I sounded a bit thin in the audience, and players on the other side of the stage had trouble hearing me. Not with the Barefaced.
It apparently made me play better too - I've never received so many high-fives after a show.
Here's a pic. I got a cheap tiny speaker stand to raise it up which give me a steel-heavy mix to stay in tune. Our sound guy calls it my "Texas in-ear monitor". (That's a Fender Rumble 40 on the floor driving it for practice).

[Jerry Overstreet]

Very interesting....checking out the specs.