..........I have a pair of 16 ohm 10 inch Celestion speakers that I'd like to build a cab for. They will be wired in parallel for an 8 ohm impedance. The build would entail a solid partition between the speakers, one speaker would be sealed and the other open back. What can I expect of the performance and tones from such a cab? Thanks.
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The closest experience I have with mixing open/back cabs is a lot different than 2x10. My setup was 8x12. I had my open-back Fender Quad with 4 Utahs sitting on a closed back Ampeg V4 with four blackback Celestion G12H speakers for years. The V4 had a lot of thump and projected tons of mids and bass, while the Fender let the notes bloom and gave me really chimney highs. It was loud as heck.
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Originally posted by Securb View PostThe closest experience I have with mixing open/back cabs is a lot different than 2x10. My setup was 8x12. I had my open-back Fender Quad with 4 Utahs sitting on a closed back Ampeg V4 with four blackback Celestion G12H speakers for years. The V4 had a lot of thump and projected tons of mids and bass, while the Fender let the notes bloom and gave me really chimney highs. It was loud as heck.
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Originally posted by Jeffblue View Post
Do you think there might be an advantage of the combination of open back and sealed?
Mesa combined open and closed backs with their Road King 4x12s, splitting them into open and closed back 2x12s. However, you could also assign channels to specific speaker outputs on the RK. Running cleans to the open back side and dirty tones to the closed side made for a really versatile amp.
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Originally posted by Jeffblue View Post
What would be your estimation of the tone with the combination of identical ceramic Celestions open back and sealed?
EDIT: Now that I think of it, I used that V4 with the next band with my first JC120 combo. The open/closed combo once again sounded fantastic.Last edited by Securb; 11-03-2022, 02:07 PM.
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That is what I've been doing for years. 1x12 open back combo with a 1x12 closed back extension cab. Sounds great to me.
If you're building the cab from scratch, make a removable panel for the top and the bottom. Then you can try both speakers both ways and see what works best for you.Join me in the fight against muscular atrophy!
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Originally posted by Jeffblue View PostThat is exactly what I was thinking. Best of both open back and sealed would accentuate each other. I think the only way to make that better is combing an Alnico and a Ceramic magnet speakers.
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