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thucydides
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How loud should I play, and how long should it take? Thanks
greendy123
New member
Re: breaking in speakers
Here's info from the celestion website. "Important Note! Before breaking it in it's advisable to "warm up" the speaker gently for a few minutes with low-level playing or background hum.
Break in a speaker with a fat, clean tone: turn up the power amp volume to full, and control the level with the preamp gain. Use a level that will be quite loud, but not painful in a normal size room.
Have the bass and mid up full, and the treble at least half. On your guitar, use the middle pick up position (if your guitar has more than one pick up) and play for 10-15 minutes using lots of open chords, and chunky percussive playing. This will get the cone moving, and should excite all the cone modes and get everything to settle in nicely. The speaker will continue to mature over the years, but this will get it 95% of the way to tonal perfection in the shortest time."
This seems like a nice quick method to break in the speakers.
Here's info from the celestion website. "Important Note! Before breaking it in it's advisable to "warm up" the speaker gently for a few minutes with low-level playing or background hum.
Break in a speaker with a fat, clean tone: turn up the power amp volume to full, and control the level with the preamp gain. Use a level that will be quite loud, but not painful in a normal size room.
Have the bass and mid up full, and the treble at least half. On your guitar, use the middle pick up position (if your guitar has more than one pick up) and play for 10-15 minutes using lots of open chords, and chunky percussive playing. This will get the cone moving, and should excite all the cone modes and get everything to settle in nicely. The speaker will continue to mature over the years, but this will get it 95% of the way to tonal perfection in the shortest time."
This seems like a nice quick method to break in the speakers.
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thucydides
Guest
Re: breaking in speakers
Thanks for the info! This board is a great resource!
Thanks for the info! This board is a great resource!
Re: breaking in speakers
Some are tougher to break in than others--the imported Jensens and higher power rating Celestions take forever. You can use a filament transformer or a line from a stereo and crank the bass. I had a set of P12N's that took about 72 hours of Ministry before they got loosened up. Another trick is to apply a 50/50 spray of fabric softener to the cone before break-in---loosens up the fibers. Just a light spray, let it dry first; too much can warp the cone geometry.
Some are tougher to break in than others--the imported Jensens and higher power rating Celestions take forever. You can use a filament transformer or a line from a stereo and crank the bass. I had a set of P12N's that took about 72 hours of Ministry before they got loosened up. Another trick is to apply a 50/50 spray of fabric softener to the cone before break-in---loosens up the fibers. Just a light spray, let it dry first; too much can warp the cone geometry.
TwilightOdyssey
Darkness on the edge of Tone
Re: breaking in speakers
Works for breaking in a valve amp, too. Just keeping the amp on doesn't do the trick.
+1.thucydides said:
Works for breaking in a valve amp, too. Just keeping the amp on doesn't do the trick.
Uncle Unborn
New member
Re: breaking in speakers
If you somehow do it wrong, will the speaker get damaged?
greendy123 said:
If you somehow do it wrong, will the speaker get damaged?
Kommerzbassist
Thunderbirdologist
Re: breaking in speakers
Yes, if you do it wrong in form of blowing 100W through a single 25W Greenback, you might break the speaker... otherwise you should be fine...
How do you define "wrong"?
Uncle Unborn said:
Yes, if you do it wrong in form of blowing 100W through a single 25W Greenback, you might break the speaker... otherwise you should be fine...
How do you define "wrong"?
greendy123
New member
Re: breaking in speakers
Yup,just make sure your total speaker wattage is at least matching the output wattage from the amp.
Yup,just make sure your total speaker wattage is at least matching the output wattage from the amp.
Uncle Unborn
New member
Re: breaking in speakers
I mean like doing the break-in process wrong, not wrong wattage/impedance...
Kommerzbassist said:
I mean like doing the break-in process wrong, not wrong wattage/impedance...
greendy123
New member
Re: breaking in speakers
Well guess doing warm up process in the speaker break in thing would be a good idea to do first before breaking it in by blasting the volume.
Well guess doing warm up process in the speaker break in thing would be a good idea to do first before breaking it in by blasting the volume.
big_black
Opaqueologist
Re: breaking in speakers
So is there any difference between braking the speaker in right away as opposed to over time? I'm just wondering about used amps and such. People out there may no know they need to break a speaker in when they buy a new amp. If you try and breaking in a used amp, is there any difference, or are we just loosening the cone up...all the same in the end?
So is there any difference between braking the speaker in right away as opposed to over time? I'm just wondering about used amps and such. People out there may no know they need to break a speaker in when they buy a new amp. If you try and breaking in a used amp, is there any difference, or are we just loosening the cone up...all the same in the end?
Kommerzbassist
Thunderbirdologist
Re: breaking in speakers
Btw... hooking up a CD player at full volume nonstop a few days... uhm... did you sleep aswell or were you just breaking in speakers then?
Scott_F said:
Btw... hooking up a CD player at full volume nonstop a few days... uhm... did you sleep aswell or were you just breaking in speakers then?
