Not the first time/last time you will read this: If you own a Barefaced cab, you are automatically drafted as an advisor into "why you should buy one". I had a Big Twin II built and from order to unpacking was less than 3 weeks from UK to Seattle. This cab speaks and fills a room in a way that no cab in memory has provided. I have run through 70's Acoustic, GK 4/10, Eden 4/10, Fender Neo 6/10 and Mesa 4/15, and all have moved the air, but Barefaced rearranges the air. Palpable! And it's painlessly lightweight.

@soulstart89

Ай бұрын

Interesting comment. What amps did you play through them? I’m thinking of getting a cab but not sure on amp and how they interact

@patricksherwood5708

Ай бұрын

Ampeg SVT (micro 200 watt), Mesa Boogie Walkabout and Mesa TT-800 (mesa are current). It just sings and has huge headroom.

@soulstart89

Ай бұрын

@@patricksherwood5708 interesting. I LOVE the tone of the 70’s acoustic but have struggled to find similar. I’ll either head down the markbass or tone hammer route. I play pbass and mostly 70’s fingerstyle funk with a bit of Motown. I wish mesa was readily available here in the uk. They look interesting

The Big Baby 2 has a serious low-end presence that's well-defined while also sounding very clean and wide!! The One 10 is mind-blowing for its size! Nathan and Lee are amazing as usual!

These intro's keep getting better

@TheMusicianTom

2 жыл бұрын

Donald Fagen - Ruby Baby

The thing I find with BareFaced is anyone who buys something from them ends up sounding like they're being sponsored with a lot of money, including myself. They really are that good. See what I mean?

A few years ago I shopped and shopped and tried and tried a multitude of different cabinets, both traditional and lightweight. After discovering and researching Barefaced, I clicked the add to cart button. The super twin is massively articulate and powerful at 1200 W 4 ohms. Later, I also picked up their 610… Good night Gracie! I am not affiliated in any way with them other than the fact that I am a customer. Probably some of the best customer service anywhere on the globe. Incredible quality. It took about six weeks for each cabinet to be built and constructed, and from Brighton to the United States once completed shipped door-to-door in approximately 22 hours; no kidding. Cheers!

@jxorz6013

9 ай бұрын

You've made the tone of the 610 sound truly epic. I'm looking at Barefaced due to headroom limitations with my Aguilar SL212, and you've got both models I'm considering as an upgrade. I know they'll be pretty accurate, regardless, but which would you say is better for a deep, wide, hard-hitting metal tone? I'm using a 6-string thru an Orange Terror Bass, with a few EQs, preamps and dirt boxes in front, if that helps.

How anyone can watch these two play and not want to be a bass player is beyond me. Everything I love about the bass and great players all rolled into one-Lee is particularly off-the-hook great, and his joy is completely infectious :)

Game over! The most amazing bass cabs ever. Nothing comes close to these. Thanks mucho for this vid!

Love barefaced!!!!! Excellent stuff!!!!

Awesome tones. Of course great players too!!

really confused why a cab demo is mixing the DI signal in with the mic's kinda defeats the point no?

@beegood

4 ай бұрын

Really. We came to hear the speakers, not a DI signal.

Been following what Alex's been doing over at Barefaced since his garage days. Not sure what sort of magic pixie dust he found when developing them but i'm pretty sure they don't obey the laws of physics.

These sound incredible!

Thanks, it's good to have as much information as possible before buying :)

@andertons

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful, thanks for tuning in!

@BarefacedAudio

3 жыл бұрын

Lots more info on our website and our own youtube. Also, email us direct for personal advice (on your gear, can't help you with life problems!)

I ordered two One10 cabinets a few days ago. Very excited.

Love that Ruby rich bassline.

Very nice! I really get to hear them on my Kali LP6s.

Yep, got one of their previous gen 1x15s a few years back, and with a GK MB800 you have a painfully loud rig you can pick up with 1 finger. Also grabbed a guitar 1x12 with V30 last year (upgrading lockdown home rig) and it really is very good as well. Alex @ Barefaced is a clever guy.

@liamb8624

3 жыл бұрын

Same amp but I went Super Twin. Incredible sound and can pick it up with 2 fingers.

Finally a video with Lee again! He is awesome

@andertons

3 жыл бұрын

Lee's been back for a while now... Got some All About That Bass to catch up with! 😉

Project that sweet sound all around, not just at your shins!

I've had two Barefaced cabs. They just cannot be beat. They are clear, compact, loud as hell, and I can lift their 2x12 with one arm. A 100lbs 8x10 fridge has NOTHING on a Big Twin 2.

@MegaCoKO

2 жыл бұрын

Can confirm, had an ampeg 8x10 and 4x10 hlf classic. Both gone and replaced with my lovely big twin 2... Alex has made something very special indeed.

@hannes1734

Жыл бұрын

How do you deal with the no coloration thing opposed to the coloration of the 8x10? Was it something that you wanted?

@jeffclark1164

Жыл бұрын

@@hannes1734 Yes. Because then you are pretty much getting your amp's sound, without any fighting with any of the baked in EQ that comes with a cab. You don't have to worry about if it will pair well. It will sound like the amp.

Best pair on the Anderton’s KZread channel!

terrific intro jam *****

Self adjust to a 100w vs 1200w amp? Oh come on Lee! Truth is these cabs (the 12" ones) have highly efficient speakers that will already go insanely loud with a 200w amp, but can handle a lot more watts if you insist on destroying your eardrums. Also a 2x12+hf weighing in at around 20 kilograms and having handles and casters ... It is just perfect and frankly worth every penny.

I've been playing through a Big Twin II for years now. It's the bees knees, good shyte indeed... no bollocks.

I hear it; listening on ADAM T8V's. Thanks, enjoy the videos.

Nice Job

I'm interested to know the limits of the 1 x 10 with a good infrasonic filter set where the speaker unloads from the box tuning and a few hundred watts available (so that the speaker is the limiting factor and the signal stays clean). Either way I bet it would make my MB30 look like a toy. I also want to know just how large that cab can sound in the corner of a room.

It'd be interesting to see how these cabs hold up to Glockenklang cabs. They're in my opinion among the best defined and focused linear bass cabs I know about. I own the Duo 2x10 + Horn, 2 x Space 12" + Horn, Double 2x12" + Horn and Uno 15" with the Glock BassArt, Soul & BlueSky amps.

@andertons What mic(s) were you mic'ing the cabs with?

That bottom port is straight out of the Hi Fi world. I'm surprised how few manufacturers have used them in the bass world.

@BarefacedAudio

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's Polk that are notable for making a big thing of the down-firing port in hi-fi - it's a good way to extend the port length without taking up internal enclosure volume, plus you can use it to mask escaping higher frequencies or air noises. This isn't a normal reflex port, it's actually the external outlet of the One10's Hybrid Resonator enclosure, which is a concept that's unique to our Barefaced 10CR cabs. The standard down-firing or optional side-firing location allows you to change the tone to suit the room acoustics by changing the cab's orientation. For our 12XN range (which are ported cabs not Hybrid Resonators) we use large forward-firing rectangular ports for greater output and improved accuracy at high SPL.

@PlayWithYourThumb

3 жыл бұрын

@@BarefacedAudio Interesting idea, is there a published image of the resonator or is it proprietary? From what little I can glean from the interwebs I was guessing that it was a passive radiator ie: speaker without a magnet. I know Orange did that a few years ago, never got to try one, thou from your reply your resonator seems to be tuned and ported separately to the main driver? I’m just curious as I built my first two bass cabs myself, designed using a freeware software program. Unfortunately I had to eventually go the Class D/Neodymium cab route as I’m an old fart and my homemade cabs weighed a tonne.

@BarefacedAudio

3 жыл бұрын

@@PlayWithYourThumb I think the Orange cabs you're referring to were their isobaric ones which were a very different thing - isobaric means you pay to have to two speakers in a cab but only one of the speakers produces lows, whilst the second speaker makes the first speaker think it's in a double size box, for deeper lows. Unfortunately the second speaker and its own enclosure takes up space that the first speaker could have used, so in the case of the Orange SP210 cab you end up with a 2x10" cab with the same efficiency as a 1x10" cab, the same max output as a 1x10" cab, more weight and cost than a 1x10" cab but it is slightly smaller than a 1x10" with the same LF response. Mesa Boogie have did use a passive radiator as well as a reflex port on their Walkabout combo, which I thought was quite a neat solution. The Hybrid Resonator is our own unique enclosure design - I didn't realise how unusual it was until too, or I'd have applied for a patent! It allows the use of a speaker with a very lightweight cone for higher efficiency and wider bandwidth (especially in the power response) without also needing a huge enclosure volume per woofer or accepting poor low frequency response. The low frequency roll-off (and thus feel) is more like a sealed box but the max low frequency output and efficiency is more like a ported box. It's a big part of why the One10 amazes people. FYI - our 10CR cabs don't have neo magnets. Nor do most of our AVD guitar ones. You don't need neo magnets to make a lightweight speaker cab!

@BarefacedAudio

3 жыл бұрын

I forgot to mention that in a hi-fi isobaric cab you only have true woofers (so in a 3 or 4-way cab) in an isobaric situation. If you go isobaric with drivers than run into the midrange then the shorter wavelengths means that the output from the rear woofer interferes with the output from the front woofer (it literally fires mid and treble through it with an effective delay) causing severe comb filtering and uneven frequency response. I think isobaric hi-fi cabs have pretty much died out now that speaker manufacturers are making speakers that work well in much smaller enclosure air volumes.

@PlayWithYourThumb

3 жыл бұрын

@@BarefacedAudio Isobaric is the word I couldn’t think of when writing my comment *Aaaaarrrrggghhhh*. Also, I had tried the Walkabout (just forgot). Loved them but too expensive here in Australia. It’s great to see a manufacturer so happy to communicate with Joe Public, you are obviously passionate about your product. Hope they are a smash hit.

I'm drooling over the super midget. I have a fender VM p-j, and a 86 P-bass lyte. is the super midget gonna be compatible with my tone hammer 350?

@MegaCoKO

2 жыл бұрын

Email Alex in barefaced, he will ask for your current setup and what you want from the cab and will not lead you astray in any way shape or form. These cabs changed my world.

thanks

Control the horn. Words of sheer wisdom.

Best bass cabinets i have ever played...

that low B hit different

HOLY F*CK IVE ONLY JUST REALISED WHO NATHAN KING IS HOLY JESUS HADNT MADE THE CONNECTION

@BarefacedAudio

3 жыл бұрын

Ha, I literally just realised this when I read your comment - and google confirms it!

@keps_ksk

3 жыл бұрын

Bro I just realized today when I was watching a live of Level 42 and thought "huh the guitarist looked familiar"

Supertwin sounds awesome to me.

Adorei 👏👏👏

have an idea, can use guitar/bass case for cab, put a speak driver and amp unit in, case & amp 2 in 1.

@BarefacedAudio

3 жыл бұрын

You'll struggle to get a decent speaker to fit in such a shallow depth, and if you can you'll have a bit of a battle to damp down earlier reflections that would mess up your mids. You need to make the large panels of the case much stiffer than they normally are or they'll act as huge (badly) tuned resonators messing up the low frequencies. And the case will need to be totally air tight when it's shut. Basically, once you've done all that you'll end up with a very big heavy case, and it would be a lot easier and better sounding to have one of our Barefaced cabs, a lightweight head, and a gigbag!

@bukwok

3 жыл бұрын

@@BarefacedAudio I see.i think i understand what you mean, if not work for bass,then is possible for acoustics or electric guitar ? i think good fit for like street guitar artists or musician, but just silly idea anyway. haha,maybe i can start a little project for fun, go buy some wood panel and hinges, make it foldable and fit into case.

Doesn’t fart, just keeps blooming.

I once got Barefaced at The World's End pub in Camden ahahahahahahhhhh

arse kicking bass...good show men....

I feel for shops and manufacturers, not a lot of need for gigging gear, big cabs etc, I'm lucky my next door neighbours are a bass player and the old dear on the other side is mutton.

Is Lee in a band?? Would love to hear some of his original material if he has any!!

These guys make me laugh every time.

Hey, hi, hello; is there anything good on Netflix at the moment? Thanks

@andertons

3 жыл бұрын

Don't know about Netflix but I hear the Andertons KZread channel is pretty good...

@christopher-miles

3 жыл бұрын

@@andertons ...oh, dang. This one’s on me. My bad! I thought this was Thomann’s... Kris is killing it lately! Disclaimer: this is sarcastic joke on Andertons. But, Kris is killing’ it. People these days... am I right?

drop the 2021 ibanez video already you "numpties"!!!!

would have liked to have heard the small one thru the trace Elliot amp. this just leads me to believe that the trace Elliot is bollocks

Pete and Dan play so so well bass guitars 🤪 ! I am very surprised....

Hard to track these down.. Not available... Their website? No easy buying process. I'd like a guide price.... Maybe by the time I've saved up I might get a keener sales rep

Would have been nice to hear the 10 on its side with the port exposed. Setting it with the port on the bottom, muffled by the rug, defeats its purpose.

@BarefacedAudio

3 жыл бұрын

Actually that’s not correct. It isn’t a conventional port, despite what it appears to be - what you’re seeing is the external outlet of the unique Hybrid Resonator enclosure design in all our 10CR cabs. The One10’s default orientation is vertical (as the Anderton’s guys were using it) but you can use it sideways, which makes the lows fatter but less deep and tight.

Everyone Ive ever seen play has a"face" they make while playing. Dude on the right takes the award for most ridiculous and exaggerated ever

why is the price so high ....? too expensive

@BarefacedAudio

2 жыл бұрын

It costs a lot of money to make cabs this good!

@MagneideaP5

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I have a the super midget, and this cabinet has been one of the the most responsive cabs I have played through. Super consistent sound no matter where you are in the room (super consistent).

Their is nothing on your site for Barefaced Audio WTF

@TheRflynn

6 ай бұрын

Guess they re-negotiated the deal.

Damn you guys have never sounded that good... I just watched the prices... F*CK!

@EpicStuffMan1000

3 жыл бұрын

I really hope this tech gets liscenced somehow to more budget manufacturers. These will always be really nice british hand made things, but if you could mass produce the projecting and sound tech they have in a lower end cab that would be ridiculously sweet.

@BarefacedAudio

3 жыл бұрын

AttakaiMusic The only way to make these cheaper is to pay less to the people making them and likewise to all the other people in the supply chain (and no-one is getting rich making these). The materials are expensive, the products are complex and they take a long time to build. However those who buy Barefaced cabs tend to keep them for a long time and if they do sell them they tend to suffer less depreciation than most - so over the lifetime of use they work out as surprisingly good value.

@TimpBizkit

2 жыл бұрын

@@BarefacedAudio and to mass produce them cheaper, they'd probably end up heavier and slightly larger (to save time on the technical bracing, and materials cost they'd end up made out of thick chip board).

I have a 1968 Ampeg B15 Portaflex and Mine will beat yours all day long

@nelsonglover3963

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I can't find any of the 1968s in stock anywhere, maybe they're all out

@homegrownson

3 жыл бұрын

@@nelsonglover3963 They Sure are and loved your Video, but got to admit if found a B15 sitting there next to other Amps it would be hard not to Buy Ampeg, I built a 4001 Ric Tribute I play through it

@thatfunk

3 жыл бұрын

Sick brag bro!

@homegrownson

3 жыл бұрын

@@thatfunk You would Love the Ric 4001 that I Built it has Tummy Cut in Antique White with Enough Gold Pearl Dust it shifts from White to Gold depending on light and angle it was the Last Solo Rick Bass Kit ever Sold in US, Used all Rickenbacker Hardware, Leo Quan Original Badass Bridge, pickups and wiring. If ever in Florida let me know and perhaps can play them and tell me if Hit the Homerun I wanted

@ileutur6863

3 жыл бұрын

@@homegrownson no such thing as beating, unless we're talking about meat. Use what fits your band, for me its usually GK or trace elliot