KAM Vortex18B. Bass cab

0:00 This piece of kit

Alright folks, in this video we're going to have a look at this piece of kit here. It's known as a bass cab and it's from a company called Cam. This unit is the Vortex 18B. Inside here we've got one single 18 inch sub bass driver. Let's have a look. Right, what we're looking at now is the bottom of the bass cab and you can see I've got the screws loose. Now again, I'm doing this so in a sense You won't have to. Now also, this is almost, well not almost, this is the bottom part of the speaker. So in other words, these feet will be on the floor and the speaker itself will be facing that direction. So I'll pause the camera and I'll take this plate off. Right, there you go. Now that is the speaker itself. And I'll put that in relation to my hand. What I'll actually do as well, I'll get a CD so you can get a proper

Idea of the size of the magnet. There you go, there's the CD so you can see how big the magnet is itself. Now again, sort of rule of thumb, the bigger the magnet quite often, the more heat it will be able to disperse, meaning it will last a lot longer and be able to produce more sound. And my voice still hasn't come back properly. Right, what I'm going to do now is screw these back in And then I'm going to put this speaker in the correct position and we'll have a look and see exactly what's going on. Alright, so there it is. Now, I'm going to give you... Well, I suppose what I'm going to do is try and give you an idea of the size of this speaker in relation to a 12-inch single. So, there it is. And if we get a 12-inch, that will give you a general sort of idea of the size. Now, what we need to remember...

2:03 The speaker itself was facing down like that

Hello. The speaker itself was facing down like that. So what happens when you hear that bass boom, you will get a sound travelling through here. Boom. But as soon as you get a boom, the speaker itself moves backwards. So you'll get almost like the secondary bass sound coming through here. So it's like boom and then out here. Boom and out here. Now, here's a bit of advice for you. Quite often you'll see people With a bass cab that side and a bass cab that side of their system. That's fine, that'll work marvellous. But possibly what you need to do is put your two bass cabs together because you'll get more bass. They'll work in tandem. Now these guys, bass kick comes out from here, boom. Now if I was going to, and I will in the near future, run two of these together, I would do...

3:04 I would have the one on the floor upside down

Exactly what I've done here, there's two of them, but this one here is facing the other way. Now this is what I'd do. I would have the one on the floor upside down. So, in other words, like I said, the speaker on this one is facing downwards. So if you imagine this one here underneath, I'm just going to move the camera, this one here underneath, I'd have this the other way around so the speaker was facing upwards. So what we've got in essence, we've got the top one, the sound's coming out of here, boom. We have the bottom one exactly the same. So we've got the boom together coming out here and then we've got that there, that part, and then we would have on the bottom one here, we'd have the equivalent down here. Now trust me on that, if you did that, the sound would be fantastic.

Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor. You will notice a tiny amount of difference. Practice and enjoy. Oh, he's gone. Terrible.

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