Ownhammer off-menu delicacies...

[Verne Bunsen]

I posted this on the Line 6 Helix forum and thought it may fall on interested ears here as well.

I found myself browsing through the Ownhammer website last night, as I often do, when I noticed that using the local search function was returning some results that were not "on the menu", so to speak. Specifically, I found these:

4x10 Bassman cab with Eminence Legend 1028P speakers
http://www.ownhammer.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=104_127_143&products_id=343

1x12 Boogafunk Thiel cab with Electro Voice EVM-12L Classic speaker
http://www.ownhammer.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=104_127_144&products_id=344

1x12 Boogafunk Thiel cab with Electro Voice EVM-12S speaker
http://www.ownhammer.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=104_127_144&products_id=345

1x12 Boogafunk Thiel cab with Electro Voice SRO-12 speaker
http://www.ownhammer.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=104_127_144&products_id=346

$5 each. Perhaps there are more little nuggets in there to be found? I have several Ownhammer collections that have disappeared from the catalog and none of them popped up in a targeted search, so I don't think it's a matter of older stuff just dwelling in the background. Not sure what the story is?

I was already putting in an order, so I snagged the Bassman pack to check it out. I'm away from home and I'm waiting on the arrival of my replacement Helix anyway (service issues with my old one...) so I haven't had the opportunity to hear them yet, but I'm looking forward to it. Digging through the file folders it's a different kind of offering from other Ownhammer stuff I have. There are far fewer IRs (75 total in this pack). Instead of the usual smorgasbord of individual mics, there are  just a handful. And instead of the usual OH1, OH2, SP2, etc... mixes, there are Modern and Vintage. Each mic and mix IR is offered as a "Precise" version with perfect phase alignment and a "Raw" version with some phase smearing. It seems to me that this IR pack was built around those mixes and the individual mic files are just the ingredients that went in to making them.

I hope someone else finds this as intriguing as I did!

 

[Cagey]

Thanks for the heads-up. I may grab a copy of that Bassman 410 and the EVM12L cab. They could come in handy for something.

 

[Verne Bunsen]

I'd never heard of a "Boogafunk Thiel" cab, but the clips sure sounded good!

 

[Cagey]

Neither have I. But, as close as I've ever been able to tell, it's impossible for an EVM-12L to sound bad, and a Thiel ported cab is always a Good Thing, so how can I go wrong?

 

[Verne Bunsen]

You piqued $5 worth of interest in me, I just grabbed that one as well.