4×12 "FRFR"!?
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gonzoknife
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If I was 20 years younger.......
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northern_fox
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to the utter horror of FOH engineers everywhere - the guitarist now has their own personal 2.5kW 412 PA over which there is zero house control. I'm really missing the point on this one I guess.
Sascha Franck
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Seriously, 4x12s aren't necessarily about playing loud.
From all I remember, I used to get more complaints when turning up 1x12s and 2x12s to stage volume than when using a 4x12. Simply because the sound is distributed less pointy, dispersed more evenly and what not.
jay mitchell
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Which is a flight of fantasy only a marketing person would promote, and only the pathologically gullible would believe.
Boudoir Guitar
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Right, but I'm assuming Laney's marketing folks attended the same training seminars. I don't know whether max spl is typically tweeter or woofer-limited, but the Laney is a 4x12, but still `1x1" tweeter.
namathan_zirwir
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$1799? I highly doubt that is much of a market at that price.
BenIfin
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Fond memories of the Mission Engineering Katana Head Sized Amp-Top Tweeter
Oh f$ck !! I had totally forgot about that. Now *that* was truly one of, if not the most, "w.t.f were they thinking" products I've ever seen even contemplated.
That tweeter makes this 4x12 look positively like a must-buy :) .... which it never will be ....
Ben
BenIfin
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Assuming this product actually has a production run ..... I predict precisely 11 sales over the next 12 months .... 10 of those being return-buy-return etc...
Finally there will be a music product that loses more of its value in % terms than a PRS Private Stock guitar .... something I thought would never be the case.
Ben
Finally there will be a music product that loses more of its value in % terms than a PRS Private Stock guitar .... something I thought would never be the case.
Ben
JiveTurkey
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I *believe* they had a green Mission 4x12 for use with the Kemper too. Or was it a diagonal 212? Can't quite recall. Looked cool.
CakeEater
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While it's wildly impractical, it's kind of awesome in its own way. I still feel kind of lame with my two 112 monitor wedges. At least rocking up with a 412, you get to make an impression. Just imagine putting a tolexed Helix Rack on top of it. Terrible shame it's not stereo though. You could do LR, or X pattern with a switch. Oh well, there goes the ambient 412.
Boudoir Guitar
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Y’all pretending like you can’t get two of the for your ambient stereo needs….
JiveTurkey
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I wonder if Laney would sponsor a tourbox? 
Enchilada Jones
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I have a vision of a band waiting in the rehearsal space to audition a new guitarist. He rolls one of those in, tosses a UA Lion pedal on the ground and plugs his guitar in…
Enchilada Jones
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Back in 2012:
aflynt
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I had a 4x12 once. It was back in the late 90's. Original 4x12 Mesa Recto cab covered with leather and armor. I used it for one show. It sounded truly amazing. By the time I got it back into the car, and back in the house my back was wrenched and I decided not the even carry it upstairs and sold it the next day. 
-Aaron
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Crazy world when guitar players shit on 4x12s. We're supposed to want a wall of them on stage.
Just get creative. I bet this dude at one of our shows he couldn't lift mine and for 5 bucks he put both of mine from the stage to in the back of my van lol. Bro do you even lift still works in 2024.
Just get creative. I bet this dude at one of our shows he couldn't lift mine and for 5 bucks he put both of mine from the stage to in the back of my van lol. Bro do you even lift still works in 2024.
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AutomationBias
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I was all onboard for like 90 seconds until I remembered that I already have a tube power amp and could just buy a regular 4x12. 
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