Dave Sloven
Ambassador of DOOM!
Our new bassist was lacking stage level gear so I put him in contact with a friend who was selling a Hartke LH1000 amp for a good price (AU$350). When Sam got the amp he asked whether the seller had a cab for sale as well, to which the answer was 'yes' and the price was AU$200 for this Warwick 410, but it would have to wait until this friend could get it from someone he had left it with.
This whole process took a couple of weeks and eventually he was able to get the Warwick cab but to his dismay the "friend" who offered to store it had in fact trashed it by playing keyboard etc through it with no regard to power handling, impedance, and so on. So my friend apologised for the delay and pointed out what he thought might be a good cab nearby on Facebook Marketplace, for $AU260.
Sam had already given me $200 to get the Warwick for him so I contacted him and told him about this situation, asking if I should get this other cab on the way to seeing him at our recording sessions last Saturday and whether he was happy with $260. I also told him that I only had $40 on me so the most I could offer t he guy was $240. He said 'go for it' and that he would cover the shortfall beyond his $200.
This cab was made by ELFA in Melbourne, who currently sell Eden cabs. This cab was fairly old by the owner's account but it had Eminence speakers and he had installed a switch to turn off the tweeter. So I went to have a look. Today I looked at the serials on the speakers and they are 2001 Delta 10A speakers, 350W 8 ohms, which were wired series-parallel for 8 ohms total, with a crossover sending highs to a tweeter. The owner had modded the cab himself, but when I tested it I found that he had installed the switch AFTER the crossover, so that when turned off the high end of the cab was absent, rather than the 10" speakers receiving the full dynamic range. The protective corners were also shabby and he didn't have a bass head there to test it with so I tested it with my 6534+ high gain Peavey guitar head and my Schecter C-1 guitar, which was interesting. With the tweeter on there was just horrible fizz through the tweeter on the gain channel, and with it off it seemed like the amp was almost totally clean. This was how I worked out that he had wired the switch incorrectly. I asked what his lowest price was, he said $250, I said it needed work and all I could offer was $240 cash anyway. Long story short I drove off with it.
I showed it to Sam at the studio but he said I might as well keep it and rewire it and he'd get it from me the following week. So I have removed the tweeter and crossover completely and moved the better top corners to the bottom of the cab, leaving the two front ones missing but there is a shop near Sam that sells these new (the exact generic ones) for cheap. I had bought $5 worth of 16AWG yesterday to rewire the cab totally but looking at the wiring it was all good once you got away from the tweeter, so it wasn't worth pulling out all of the front loaded speakers and redoing the solder etc. So I simply soldered the red and black wires to the old parallel jacks correctly, omitting all of the crossover etc. The hole where the tweeter had been was covered with a piece of black ABS plastic with a foam backing that had been part of the packing materials for a new television set. It did the job, seals well and is stiff enough while removing at least a kilogram from the cab's weight. I'll post photos below. Note that there are no castors on this cab, the cab is sitting on the dolly I use for my 412 cabs.
This whole process took a couple of weeks and eventually he was able to get the Warwick cab but to his dismay the "friend" who offered to store it had in fact trashed it by playing keyboard etc through it with no regard to power handling, impedance, and so on. So my friend apologised for the delay and pointed out what he thought might be a good cab nearby on Facebook Marketplace, for $AU260.
Sam had already given me $200 to get the Warwick for him so I contacted him and told him about this situation, asking if I should get this other cab on the way to seeing him at our recording sessions last Saturday and whether he was happy with $260. I also told him that I only had $40 on me so the most I could offer t he guy was $240. He said 'go for it' and that he would cover the shortfall beyond his $200.
This cab was made by ELFA in Melbourne, who currently sell Eden cabs. This cab was fairly old by the owner's account but it had Eminence speakers and he had installed a switch to turn off the tweeter. So I went to have a look. Today I looked at the serials on the speakers and they are 2001 Delta 10A speakers, 350W 8 ohms, which were wired series-parallel for 8 ohms total, with a crossover sending highs to a tweeter. The owner had modded the cab himself, but when I tested it I found that he had installed the switch AFTER the crossover, so that when turned off the high end of the cab was absent, rather than the 10" speakers receiving the full dynamic range. The protective corners were also shabby and he didn't have a bass head there to test it with so I tested it with my 6534+ high gain Peavey guitar head and my Schecter C-1 guitar, which was interesting. With the tweeter on there was just horrible fizz through the tweeter on the gain channel, and with it off it seemed like the amp was almost totally clean. This was how I worked out that he had wired the switch incorrectly. I asked what his lowest price was, he said $250, I said it needed work and all I could offer was $240 cash anyway. Long story short I drove off with it.
I showed it to Sam at the studio but he said I might as well keep it and rewire it and he'd get it from me the following week. So I have removed the tweeter and crossover completely and moved the better top corners to the bottom of the cab, leaving the two front ones missing but there is a shop near Sam that sells these new (the exact generic ones) for cheap. I had bought $5 worth of 16AWG yesterday to rewire the cab totally but looking at the wiring it was all good once you got away from the tweeter, so it wasn't worth pulling out all of the front loaded speakers and redoing the solder etc. So I simply soldered the red and black wires to the old parallel jacks correctly, omitting all of the crossover etc. The hole where the tweeter had been was covered with a piece of black ABS plastic with a foam backing that had been part of the packing materials for a new television set. It did the job, seals well and is stiff enough while removing at least a kilogram from the cab's weight. I'll post photos below. Note that there are no castors on this cab, the cab is sitting on the dolly I use for my 412 cabs.
Last edited:
