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This could change everything...
- What if we could design a floor monitor wedge that was really a guitar cabinet?
- What if we could shape its sonic characteristics to mimic a specific cabinet?
- What if we could make it better?
Problem: Your primary guitar sound comes from on stage stacks of 4x12 cabinets. The 4x12 cabinets serve a few important functions such as looking cool, allowing you to get feedback, and providing stage volume so you can hear yourself. Unfortunately there are some very strong drawbacks as well. 4x12 cabinets are extremely loud, troublesome to the front of house mix, and they blast the heck out of the audience directly in front of them. You always want to put your best foot forward, and this current setup is just not working.
Solution: The Badger Monitor by Pressurehead! The Badger Monitor was conceived to solve all the problems of having guitar amplifiers on stage, without sacrificing any of the reasons the amps are on stage in the first place. Well, except perhaps the aesthetics of stacks of cabinets behind the guitars. ;)
Badger 1 was designed to mimic a clients favorite Fender Hot Rod Deville 2x12 combo amp as close as possible. The Fender Hot Rod Deville is an open back speaker with two 12" drivers. The characteristic of having this open back are key to the overall sound of the cabinet. Simply creating a floor monitor with an open back was not an acceptable solution considering:
- The back of a monitor speaker would face the audience and send too much sonic information their way.
- The bottom of a monitor speaker faces the stage and would again bleed too much sonic information to the audience. Additionally the back wave of the speakers would reflect off the floor and back into the cabinet giving it an artificially boomy bottom end.
It soon became clear that a much more innovative engineered solution was needed and while we would like to show you that solution in pictures, we are currently pursuing copy-write and patents so its best we don't give it away in such a public format, but we will tell you this, it works, and it rocks!
Why is it called the Badger? Because its low to the ground and mean, like a badger!
We would like to build a Badger Monitor for you to meet your specific needs, mimic your current cabinet/combo amp, or create something that is uniquely yours. Just drop us a line and we'll get right on it!
