Which Barefaced
The Engineered Modular System
Our most popular cabs, and indeed the ones that suit most bass players, are the modular range of Midget, Compact and Super Twelve. These cabs have a tonal profile similar to other top quality bass cabs yet produce greater output for their size whilst weighing less. They do not suffer from the excess midrange and weak lows which characterises the earlier and cheaper neodymium magnet bass drivers but have the full fat yet clear sound of expensive drivers in carefully aligned, properly braced and correctly damped enclosures.
Both the Midget and Super Twelve are available with high quality tweeters with custom built crossovers which extend the response to the limit of human hearing with remarkably even response, low distortion and none of that spikey fizzy sound that marrs less well designed woofer+tweeter cabs. They can even do double duty as high output compact PA cabs!
These three cabs can be used singly or in various combinations, to handle the smallest to the loudest gig, and have been carefully engineered to couple as efficiently as possible and provide an effective polar pattern when multiple cabs are used. The most popular modular Barefaced rig of Midget+Compact can play louder and fatter than any 4x10" on the market, yet you can use a lone Midget as a tiny but very loud stage monitor or to fill surprisingly large venues with bottom, whilst the Compact as a standalone has comparable midrange punch and treble clarity yet bigger deeper lows so can handle larger venues without PA support.
The Big Series
The original Big One, the Big Baby (and Baby Sub) and the Big Twin represent a quantum leap forwards in bass cab technology. Many bass players will find these cabs too revealing but if you are after the most accurate representation of the sound of your instrument, which remains consistent both on and off-axis and as you turn up louder and louder to punishing SPL, then these cabs are quantifiably the best on the market.
The Big Baby and Big Twin are the second generation of the Big Series and are designed to go even lower (happily handling basses tuned down to low F# or super-low E), and remain more consistent at higher SPL (due to the greater thermal power handling and thus reduced power compression), whilst the Big Twin uses the new bracing/porting scheme pioneered on the Super Twelve to give our large format enclosures greater strength and non-resonance yet lower weight. As a 2-way woofer+mid design the Big Series cabs provide deeper lows, more accurate mids and smoother highs than traditional bass cabs. With the optional tweeter as a 3-way woofer+mid+tweeter design the Big Series cabs reveal their incredible transparency by sounding more like a giant clear yet thunderous studio monitor than a bass cab.
If you crave the sonic size and weight of a huge rig but don't want to carry it then the Big Series cabs are the route to take. Alternatively if you're after the sound you get when hearing your bass DI'd in a professional recording studio but have never been able to get on the gig, then the Big Series can do it for you. The sonic clarity which lets you hear every detail of your bass also helps the Big Series excell with heavy FX, letting you disguish between all your different distortion pedals through the roar of a loud band, allowing more subtle modulation to get heard properly for once and having the depth and dynamic ability in the lows to get the most out of octavers, synths and envelope filters.
The Niche Models
Our first genre specific bass cab, the Dubster is designed to give ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub players the massive fat sound of a big rig but at a fraction of the size. Tuned for maximum sensitivity in the critical lows the Dubster doesn't need much power to do bigger bottom than similarly sized 'sensible' reggae rigs whilst if you have the power it'll produce similar SPL to a classic dual 8x10" rig. Two Dubsters are enough to play loud reggae outdoors without PA support.The Dubster does have an alternate purpose, which is to provide huge clean lows in a biamped clean/dirty bass rig, a la John Entwistle. It wasn't designed for that but it should actually be very good at it. If have any more bright ideas of how to solve a specific bass amplification problem then there will be more niche cabs but we won't introduce anything unless it is filled with sufficient awesomeness.