Dr Bonkers Guitar Cab-Oddities™ Volume 6: POLY 1X15 + 2X8 Guitar Cabinet IR Collection

Description

Both Guitar and Bass were recorded using these cab impulse response (ir) files of this 1970’s Polytone® Pro Series™ 1X15+2X8 Cab with Polytone® CTS® speakers, Please see video description for more details.

All tabbed information is for both WAV and Fractal Syx format Cab IR Packs unless otherwise noted.

WAV version is available for immediate purchase. Fractal Syx version is available for immediate purchase. Combo is available for immediate purchase.

Please click above to hear sound samples or on the arrows or tabs to  see more information.

Use of Polytone® & Pro Series™ are owned by their respective corporate entities and mentioned on this site under the terms of fair use. Use of Fractal Audio Systems®, AX-8™, Axe-FXII™, Cab Lab3™, and Ultra-Res™ are owned by Fractal Audio Systems® and mentioned on this site under the terms of fair use. Any band names or artists mentioned in a purely historical & educational context are owned by their respective corporate entities and mentioned on this site under the terms of fair use. All such mentions do not connote any endorsement, approval, or use of Dr Bonkers Soundlab LLC® products. The trade name of HypeReal™ in the context of Cabinet Impulse Response Packs as well as the actual files for sale on this website are the intellectual property of Dr Bonkers Soundlab LLC® and may only be used under the terms of the EULA.

Additional information

Impulse Response (IR) File Inspired Cabinet Info (Click Here)

Inspired Model Recorded as Impulse Response (IR) Files: 1970’s Polytone® Pro Series™ 1 X 15 + 2 X 8 Guitar or Bass Amp Cabinet

Speakers Loaded in Model Captured: Polytone® Proprietary 15 inch and two 8 inch Speakers for Guitar and Bass

Microphones Used (Click Here)

Microphones Used in This Cab Impulse Response (IR) Cab Pack:

AKG C414 XLS

AKG 451 EB

AKG D-12vr (used in passive mode)

Audio Technica AT4033

Audix D6s

Avantone CV12

Beyerdynamic M-160

Blue Electronics “The Ball” (used in “active mode”)

David Bock Audio – Soundelux U97

Crown PZM-6D

Electro-Voice RE-10

Electro-Voice RE-20

Neumann u89i

Sennheiser MD 421 II

Sennheiser MD 441

Shure SM57

Shure SM81

Past Brand Cabinet Users (Click Here)

Here are some famous players who were rumored to have historically used a similar type of cabinet in the past as reference and educational purposes for your tone quest or inspiration:

Joe Pass – Jazz Guitar Legend

Jim Hall  – Jazz Guitar Legend

George Benson  – Jazz Guitar Legend

This list should be taken with some skepticism as these players seem to be associated with all Polytone® amp and cab models with little photographic evidence to support these internet claims.

Speaker Photos of Polytone® Proprietary 15 inch and 8 inch Speakers for Guitar and Bass (Click Here)

1X15+2X8 Polytone® Proprietary 15 inch Speaker and two 8 inch Speakers for Guitar and Bass loaded in a 1970’s Pro Series™ 1X15 + 2X8 Guitar or Bass Amp Cabinet

Historical Info (Click Here)

Polytone® was founded over 40 years ago in California, USA, and was making amp combos that people used for accordion, keyboards, jazz guitar, electric bass, and upright bass.. Interestingly, the company was founded by a jazz accordion player of fame for that era.

The large format, gently angled closed back cabinet is heavyweight, deadened with what looks to be fiberglass insulation, but the cab sounds pretty stark and revealing- dark at lower volumes and with a bit of a bite at louder volumes. This seems like Polytone® was attempting to make the Polytone® Model 101™ into a road worthy touring stack configuration in order to compete with the other amp manufacturers’ products hitting the big stages of the early to mid 1970’s.

The speaker design is way over-engineered for strictly guitar use, as it doesn’t bottom out or fart like most guitar speakers when you try to play bass guitar through them at gig volume. But the Polytone®  also doesn’t sound like a blanket is over the speaker when playing guitar through it, unlike some prominent bass speakers sound when playing guitar through them. Impulse responses made with this cab can really sound great with many different types of digital amp models using clean up to mid gain, even bass amp models. If you try to play black metal or djent with these impulse response (IR) files, you will probably be very disappointed in them just as you would be with the real cabinet.

Very little historical data exists on the web about these Pro Series cabinets. Please contact me if you have any more information that could be used to fill in the gaps.

Wav & Combo Pack File Compatibility Info (Click Here)

Please check the documentation of your Yamaha® THR-100™, Kemper® KPA™ (Kemper Profiler Amp), Line 6® Helix™, Boss® GT-1000™, Two Notes® Torpedo™, Atomic Amps® Amplifire™, NuX® Cerberus™, AMT® Pangaea CP-100™, Positive Grid® Bias™, or other hardware or software based Impulse Response (IR) loader to see which WAV file format is correct to use.

All company trademarks for Fractal Audio Systems®, Yamaha®, Line6®, Kemper®, Boss®, Two Notes®, AMT®, NuX®, Positive Grid®, Atomic Amps®, Digitech® are owned by their respective corporate entities and mentioned under fair use.