Eminence Maverick for my tweed deluxe

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Chickenwings

Alnico 6/8
https://www.eminence.com/pdf/Maverick.pdf
Ive been through a bunch of speakers for my tweedie and i love the texas heat. The tone with a tele is so inspiring. Downside is that even at 12 watts, the little beast is still too loud for most clubs, and turning the amp down doesn't so much reduce the volume as simply clean the tone up. The amp really sings at around seven on the tone and volume knobs with my tele. It really is the ultimate plug and play tone to me. So rich and colourful and responsive to both picking nuance, pickups and guitar controls. Downside is that the amp really sounds best when it is cooking and there really is no option to simply "turn down the volume".
Anyways. I just ordered one of these mavericks so hopefully i will have a 5e3 with a useable master volume kind of function right at the very end of the chain but still keep that gorgeous richness and interaction with the guitar.
Sweet tone at variable volume? Hopefully.
Stay tuned.
 
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Those are cool. I noticed them when I was looking at Eminence speakers a couple months back. I haven't heard them in person but the attenuation seems to work well from the clips I've heard. The speakers tone seems to remain pretty consistent across the attenuation sweep. If you end up liking the speaker itself, the FDM thing seems like it should work out well for you on stage.
 
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ive wanted one of these for a long time for my deluxe reverb but have never gotten around to ordering one. looking forward to the review!
 
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Put in in the amp yesterday, played it at a gig last night.
Fantastic unit.
Firstly, it is a great sounding speaker. Balanced and muscular. About the same efficiency as a texas heat when on full crank. A firm, defined bass and enough articulation to grind and bark. The main thing for me was that it was a good sounding unit and immediately it is up there with some of my favourite speakers. None of the spike that you find in some jensens. I guess it is in the same vein as a texas heat, but perhaps more 70s (is that a thing?) sounding. Balanced, strong, no nonsense good tone. A lot more clarity than a cannabis rex. Really suits the kind of sounds im after with a tele.
I'd be happy to use this speaker even without the attenuation. Really works great with a tweed deluxe and i can't see any reason it would not sound good in any amp.
Wind back the attenuation and the amp just gets quieter. Pretty good. First thing I did was roll it back and i noticed the more prominent PI distortion that 5e3s are known for. I guess any time you turn something down you lose that fat bass response simply due to less air moving. The eminence site says that the speaker sounds darker when dialled back. Anyway...turning it down actually increases your ability to hear what the amp is doing...somewhat like when you hear your recorded tone back on a desk. As a result I was able to hear that buzzy PI tube distortion that can make 5e3s sound raspy and not fun with boosters, so i ended up doing a couple of small mods to the phase inverter of the amp. Great! Now thanks to the speaker, i was able to narrow down something i wanted to tidy up in my amp and make it smoother.
End result..Kick ass sounding tweed deluxe amp that has a useable attenuator.
Btw after the amp mods (which needed doing) i can safely say that the attenuator does not kill your tone in any way. It literally just makes the amp quieter.
By a fair bit too. Emi site says 9db. I guess you could say that it takes the amp down from playing next to a drummer level, to playing next to an acoustic double bass and brush drums level. The amp is still loud in terms of bedroom practice, but in terms of useable levels at gigs it wins.
So I used it at last nights gig. The amp just slayed. Volume on 8, tone on 8. I've never got this great a sound using pedals for drive. Loving life.
Rolled the attenuator down to almost min for the first set, then up to about half in the second set, then nearly full volume for the last set. One really great thing is that the attenuation is really gradual over the whole dial. There are no big leaps in volume like you find in the taper of a lot of potentiometers on guitars or amps. Gradual, predictable and smooth. That surprised me.
The amp slayed. Fat, chunky warm tweed tone all night at the right volume. Who would have thought such a thing possible?
Right now i'm thinking about getting another one for my princeton. I reckon this amp is a no brainer for tweed players and would also really suit deluxe reverbs too so you can get the amp into that "above 4" territory that sounds so great but is usually too loud for a lot of clubs.
Yep.
Eminence Maverick.
Just get one.
 
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Thanks for the review! Interested in both the Maverick and Reignmaker now...
 
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sweet. now i must have one. what did you do to the pi to clean it up? there isnt all that much in there lol
 
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Ha! I'm keen to hear your thoughts. I'm liking it more and more the more i use it.
 
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Just read where "Kenny Burrel" used a 5E3 with a P-90 ES175 I believe in his 'Introduction' recording, which I am trying to get. ( do youse' guys remeber my trolling about how the ES175 was an inferior instrument because it wasn't a carved top? What a dimwit i am..come to find pretty much all the Jazz greats used the ES175 Ply top guitar for much of their at least early work, although I think many went to the carved tops [L5/L7/Super400's, ?].
 
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MetalManiac said:
Just read where "Kenny Burrel" used a 5E3 with a P-90 ES175 I believe in his 'Introduction' recording, which I am trying to get. ( do youse' guys remeber my trolling about how the ES175 was an inferior instrument because it wasn't a carved top? What a dimwit i am..come to find pretty much all the Jazz greats used the ES175 Ply top guitar for much of their at least early work, although I think many went to the carved tops [L5/L7/Super400's, ?].
Click to expand...
pros and cons for both solids and plytops. Ive played an l4 which is really a blinged up solid top 175, also and L5 and a tal farlow (really just a ply top L5).
They are all nice axes. The main thing i like best about the 175 though is the fact that out of all of them, it is the least prone to feedback.
It is all personal preference. A good player will sound good on any of them and each instrument has its own sound and feel. You can play a bunch of 175s and they will all be different.
 
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fixed the deluxe and put the new speaker in. sounds great in my basement, a little brighter than im used to with the crex but i was expecting that. gig starts in a few hours, excited to try it with a band!
 
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gibson175 said:
pros and cons for both solids and plytops. Ive played an l4 which is really a blinged up solid top 175, also and L5 and a tal farlow (really just a ply top L5).
They are all nice axes. The main thing i like best about the 175 though is the fact that out of all of them, it is the least prone to feedback.
It is all personal preference. A good player will sound good on any of them and each instrument has its own sound and feel. You can play a bunch of 175s and they will all be different.
Click to expand...

Actually,after further review, I wasn't so dimwitted. OK, all, most, or a lot of early great Jazz music was recorded on the ES175, but still the L-5 Carved top is quite superior in tone, undeniably;

 
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Thanks for turning me onto these. I'd always wanted a speaker that was tuneable to the amp. Glad to see the price is normal too.

I'd like to hear these in my Matchless Chieftain and Fender Pro Reverb. Right now they're 2 V30 and C12N/Swamp Thang. I want more juice from the amps, and less from the speakers.
 
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wasn't there a company that was making new production old school technology 'field coil' speakers ( speakers with a transformer) as supposedly the best interactive amp-speaker tone?
 
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One question I have is where does the sweet spot lie on the attenuation, if 1 is full attenuation and 10 is wide open? Let's assume the amp volume is right where you like it...4 - 5.
 
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i gotta say, im impressed. only one bar gig so far but the tone was good and i was able to knock the volume down considerably. dont know about the sweet spot if there is one yet but the tone seemed pretty consistent the little i messed with it during the gig. i pretty much turned the amp up to 5, started with full attenuation and rolled it up a little till i was at the volume i wanted, maybe 20-25% up from minimum. amp sounded and felt really good
 
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