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  • Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

    I have all the tools necessary, and ideas. I know the parts necessary, I just can't decide on a speaker.

    I know I want an eminence speaker, but the problem is I don't know what would provide the fattest sound in a 2x12. So do you have any speaker suggestions?
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    Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

    Originally posted by youngthrasher9 View Post
    I have all the tools necessary, and ideas. I know the parts necessary, I just can't decide on a speaker.

    I know I want an eminence speaker, but the problem is I don't know what would provide the fattest sound in a 2x12. So do you have any speaker suggestions?
    It depends how you define fat.

    I'd hazard a guess at big/thick/chunky?

    If so i'd try the swamp thang.

    Eminence are the best people to email about this though they're really handy.
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    • #3
      Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

      Swamp Thang is a good suggestion . . . C. Rex also has a nice sound with a good amount of low end if you're looking for a cleaner tone.
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      • #4
        Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

        if you can find them P-50Es....
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        • #5
          Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

          I'm stuck between the swamp thing and the tonespotter. I'm afraid if I get the swamp thing it will have too much chunk in the low end.
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          Originally posted by kevlar3000
          The smoker is great at adding a few decades, kinda like having Keith Richards breathe on yer guitar for a few hours...
          Originally posted by CTN
          I will kill you. Then I will resuscitate you, so you can watch me steal your new Tokai and play some horrible sounding ultra-dissonant death metal on it, then I will kill you again.
          FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! DC RESISTANCE DOES NOT DETERMINE ACTUAL OUTPUT OF A PICKUP.

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          • #6
            Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

            I have a C Rex loaded verticle 2x12, and it's way huge sounding. They don't distort much at all, and take a good while to fully break in, but they just sound killer.
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            • #7
              Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

              Originally posted by youngthrasher9 View Post
              I'm stuck between the swamp thing and the tonespotter. I'm afraid if I get the swamp thing it will have too much chunk in the low end.
              I like the Tonespotter myself

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              • #8
                Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

                I like the V12 Legends in a 2x12. I pulled the V30's out of my Randall 2x12 and with the Legends the cab easily sounds twice a big. Handles any amount of bass, and if your tone lacks lows, it also makes your tone sound fatter. Smooth highs, and nice low mids.
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                • #9
                  Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

                  Originally posted by Van Noord View Post
                  I like the V12 Legends in a 2x12. I pulled the V30's out of my Randall 2x12 and with the Legends the cab easily sounds twice a big. Handles any amount of bass, and if your tone lacks lows, it also makes your tone sound fatter. Smooth highs, and nice low mids.
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                  Originally posted by kevlar3000
                  The smoker is great at adding a few decades, kinda like having Keith Richards breathe on yer guitar for a few hours...
                  Originally posted by CTN
                  I will kill you. Then I will resuscitate you, so you can watch me steal your new Tokai and play some horrible sounding ultra-dissonant death metal on it, then I will kill you again.
                  FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! DC RESISTANCE DOES NOT DETERMINE ACTUAL OUTPUT OF A PICKUP.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

                    Originally posted by Van Noord View Post
                    I like the V12 Legends in a 2x12. I pulled the V30's out of my Randall 2x12 and with the Legends the cab easily sounds twice a big. Handles any amount of bass, and if your tone lacks lows, it also makes your tone sound fatter. Smooth highs, and nice low mids.
                    Would you say they are tighter?

                    I've had them described to me as a less middy tighter v30.

                    If so that could be what I need...
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                    • #11
                      Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

                      Originally posted by Van Noord View Post
                      I like the V12 Legends in a 2x12. I pulled the V30's out of my Randall 2x12 and with the Legends the cab easily sounds twice a big. Handles any amount of bass, and if your tone lacks lows, it also makes your tone sound fatter. Smooth highs, and nice low mids.
                      These are the ones right? http://www.musiciansfriend.com/acces...h-tone-speaker
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                      Originally posted by kevlar3000
                      The smoker is great at adding a few decades, kinda like having Keith Richards breathe on yer guitar for a few hours...
                      Originally posted by CTN
                      I will kill you. Then I will resuscitate you, so you can watch me steal your new Tokai and play some horrible sounding ultra-dissonant death metal on it, then I will kill you again.
                      FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! DC RESISTANCE DOES NOT DETERMINE ACTUAL OUTPUT OF A PICKUP.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

                        I would highly recommend the WGS speakers... over Eminence. All Eminence speakers have a particular cardboard sounding midrange hump that you will not find in Celestion or WGS. IMHO
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                        • #13
                          Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

                          Originally posted by youngthrasher9 View Post
                          Yes those are them. If you want 16 ohm versions you have to order direct from either Krank or Soldano.

                          Toe-Knee, yes your description is pretty accurate. Next to my V30's, they sound thicker, tighter & less upper middy. Clearer tone as well.
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                          • #14
                            Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

                            I would buy an Avatar speaker cab, the modern one would be easier
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                            • #15
                              Re: Thinking of building a 2x12 cabinet.

                              I want to do something kind of like this...

                              I had an idea that I could get a set of 4 celestion rocket 50 speakers at 50 watts apiece. Then, I could make 2 2x12 amps with 2 speakers each(going sideways) One would serve as a combo amp, and it would have an output so you could use the other simply as a cab and just plug the output of the combo into the cab if you need greater volume. I have absolutely no experience in amp wiring, so could somebody link me a schematic or something like that so I could make this?

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