[HAM] Correctamunde: Single louver horn compartment damping material?

[Bohachewsky, Andrew V.]

A 45 I picked up recently still had the "wadding" (looks like carpet
padding?) on the top back panel, I left that in place. Also had the
fiberglass insulation in the bass cab all intact held by 30 or so
staples. It was getting pretty brittle due to age, I yanked that out
rather than let it slowly disintegrate into the bass speaker and lower
motor (can't imagine THAT would help the sound...)

Andy

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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [HAM] Correctamunde: Single louver horn compartment damping
material?

At 09:29 AM 4/3/2007, David Anderson wrote:
>Since it's my fault for starting this discussion, my purpose was simply
to 
>discuss the fact that these specific models of cabs originally had
damping 
>material around the horn compartments, something I'd never seen brought
up 
>before.

I am actually interested in this topic, it's just so rife with 
possibilities for jokes, I just can't help it....
I have seen the insides of far fewer Leslies, I suspect, than many of
you. 
But I have *never* seen one with the wadding intact. What I commonly see
is 
fiberglass insulation hanging down, by one staple, inside the main
(bass) 
enclosure. So I rip it out. I always wonder about it as I throw it away.

Without having any actual facts at my disposal, my attitude has been
that 
they sound just fine without it, and why do anything at all to damp the 
sound? It would be interesting to hear what Leslie's original intention
was.



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