Why are all the boutique cabs so freakin ugly?

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I'm sure they sound great...but yuck. Looks like I made one with the supplies found in my garage. Can't be too hard to make them look cool too, can it?

 

[gazman]

They look alot better in person.

[willsellout]

I think they look sexy as hell..what cabs do you think look good?

 

 

Dan

[lingua latina]

I'm not trying to defend what I own, But I think the Bag Ends look pretty good with the deep red covering.

 

Now as for the sound of everything you posted...well, then looks aren't really anything.

 

An Ampeg 8x10 looks like a building block:rolleyes:

[sunburstbasser]

They all look fine to me.

[no-logic]

They are made to look different.....that is all.

[fleizenkruz]

sound quality over fashion, that's my motto... none of my bass-playing friends care about how an amp/cab looks, they just going for the ear-aching punch

[zenfascist]

Well, I guess that's the trade-off. But if I were to buy a boutique (pronounced "expensive") cab like that, I'd be keeping it for a while, so I'd just recover it with a different material that I liked.

[ministryoflower]

Yes sir ....the building blocks of rock and roll !!!!!

[illidian]

 

Originally posted by willsellout I think they look sexy as hell..what cabs do you think look good? Dan

 

 

+1

[Rhythmalism]

I call them ugly too. I've seen some home-brews look pretty groovy, but they were covered with a thin layer of expensive wood / plywood: not practical for someone gigging.

[megadan]

The EBS has defintely got a major "80's" thing going on, not so cool... the rest are ok

[speddling]

 

now I truely think the dark blue with yellow tag of the Schroeders is pretty cool... I am considering having them recovered in tweed. I HATE any kind of absorbant covering. They hold too much stank when gigged at the {censored} bars & biker parties I've endured.

 

 

You know... I spent the 90s in a 'boutique' rig too. But the BagEnds were bought nekkid

 

It was an S12

 

sitting on an S15