Celestion A type speakers vrs g12 75 cream backs

[philthis]

Thinking about replacing the "V" type speakers in my Fender 68 custom twin reissue with a different Celestion speaker. I am sticking with Celestions becouse I have had excellent luck with them in the past and because I like how they roll off the ice picky highs on the cleans but can still growl with distortion. I am looking at two different replacement speakers, the Celestion "A" type speaker for its smooth clean tones (check out Pete Thorns video on these) because I think its designed to be a Fender blackface type replacement speaker, or the Celestion Creamback g12 75's. The Creamback 75's are supposed to have a chimey high and a defined low which might sound really nice in a Fender Twin.
Anybody have any experience with any of these speakers?

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Celestion A type speakers vrs g12 75 cream backs

sorry i cant help with creambacks or the "V type", but i cant think of a speaker out there that sounds better than eminence texas heats in a twin reverb fwiw. Especially rolling off the icepick and growling with distortion. Fat, warm and mean with the big horsepower of a twin driving them.

 

[ken361]

Re: Celestion A type speakers vrs g12 75 cream backs

I had that twin for a year but just traded it in for the Marshall DSL I dig it! with the twin its that bright cap switch I didnt like with pedals even when it was off. I tried the deluxe reverb with the pedals and it just sounded warmer and fuller some. The A type might be best or cream backs. The G12 75 prb be bright like marshalls are. love the cleans on the twin it was prb too much amp a bear to carry around.

 

[philthis]

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I am buying a Dolly at Costco for a hundred. I too played the 68 reissue delux reverb and really liked it. I think with a 75 cream back that's 100 sensitive you could make that amp sound like it's closer to 30 watts and that's loud enough for a miked gig easily. I cranked up my twin a few days ago on input 1 and with a humbucker in a strat it just kicked serious @ss. I couldn't be too much happier. I may replace with A type celestions but listening to clips I have found some of the Celestions roll off the highs to the point where you lose some of that nice Fender ringy chime on the high notes on chords. The trick is too find a Celestion that will keep the chime but roll off the eminence and Jensen ice picky highs. The V type does this but you have to drive it to get the speaker to ring and chime well. At high volume it's no problem. I just played an Eric Clapton Tremolux or Twin O lux or whatever it was. It retails at $2700. It's only like 12 watts but it's got a cool fat midrange tone. We ran a Gretsch White Falcon into it, a master built $6500 dollar strat, and a gibson 335. It really did have a cool fat jazz tone. I had to kraken the treble to almost 10 to get a chimey ring out of it becouse of the Celestion it came with. It's a wonderful jazz amp but again it's got to be driven hard to get a ringy chime out of it. We finally went to a tele to get some twang out of it. I may yet keep the V type and add a mojo
Tone cab with a Celestion 15 guitar speaker. Also check out the new Celestion "cream" speakers. There Alnico instead of ceramic like there gold speakers but maybe more greenback like?
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[philthis]

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I think what has me worried is the Celestion A type speaker rolls of the highs dramatically around 5k. I think 6k is the sweet spot for chime but above that is the ice picky tone that most people despise.

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Celestion A type speakers vrs g12 75 cream backs

The trick is too find a Celestion that will keep the chime but roll off the eminence and Jensen ice picky highs.

....or you could look at speakers that are neither celestion nor jensen.
Ears don't care about brands.

 

[ken361]

Re: Celestion A type speakers vrs g12 75 cream backs

I am buying a Dolly at Costco for a hundred. I too played the 68 reissue delux reverb and really liked it. I think with a 75 cream back that's 100 sensitive you could make that amp sound like it's closer to 30 watts and that's loud enough for a miked gig easily. I cranked up my twin a few days ago on input 1 and with a humbucker in a strat it just kicked serious @ss. I couldn't be too much happier. I may replace with A type celestions but listening to clips I have found some of the Celestions roll off the highs to the point where you lose some of that nice Fender ringy chime on the high notes on chords. The trick is too find a Celestion that will keep the chime but roll off the eminence and Jensen ice picky highs. The V type does this but you have to drive it to get the speaker to ring and chime well. At high volume it's no problem. I just played an Eric Clapton Tremolux or Twin O lux or whatever it was. It retails at $2700. It's only like 12 watts but it's got a cool fat midrange tone. We ran a Gretsch White Falcon into it, a master built $6500 dollar strat, and a gibson 335. It really did have a cool fat jazz tone. I had to kraken the treble to almost 10 to get a chimey ring out of it becouse of the Celestion it came with. It's a wonderful jazz amp but again it's got to be driven hard to get a ringy chime out of it. We finally went to a tele to get some twang out of it. I may yet keep the V type and add a mojo
Tone cab with a Celestion 15 guitar speaker. Also check out the new Celestion "cream" speakers. There Alnico instead of ceramic like there gold speakers but maybe more greenback like?
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Meijers has a compact dolly that retracts it pretty cool I got one over the weekend