EVM 12L Speakers and cabinet design

[Stratman]

These are great speakers

Information on them can be found here:

www.evm12lblacklabel.com

However, to get the best use of these speakers, then it must be recognized that the cabinet design is quite different than a typical Marshall 4-12 cabinet.

For information read these two web/pdf files...

http://www.electrovoice.com/tech-library.php?pt=general

(Open The EV PA Bible - Part 13) to read up on the original speaker design and then got to this web site for the cabinet design - that you can build by yourself.

http://archives.telex.com/archives/EV/Builders Plans/ Open TL806Q


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PS - This is one for the Vault

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: EVM 12L Speakers and cabinet design

Definately Vault worthy.

I've got a EV12L that I've tried in my closed Marshall 2x12, Vox open 2x12, and a Duncan Convertible 60.

It actually sounds its best in a EV PA cab. All I did was disconnect the horn and lay it on its side so my Bassman would fit on top.

 

[doveman]

Re: EVM 12L Speakers and cabinet design

If you want to go one-at-a-time the TL-806 looks like the 1x12 version. I had some of these built back in the early 80s and covered in boat fiberglass. They were indestructable. I have an original EVM-12L from that period that I still run in a sealed cabinet that I built. I designed it to have the same intenal space as this TL-806 box and have always been satisfied with it. The original Mark 1 Boogie that I have has to be run fairly low on bass anyway (2-3). So I found I liked the sealed cabinet better. There is no "speaker breakup" either way.

I would not mind having those two TL-806 cabinets back ... they were pretty cool looking. I ran 2 of them with the ports on the bottom with a Marshall 100w head ... at the end they were loaded with Altec Lansing 417 speakers. I sold them to a friend of mine ... and they burned up in a club fire.

Here's my current rig with the sealed speaker cab I built myself.

I went from double stack 4x12 Altecs ... to two 1x12s ... to one 1x12 ... my back was thankful! The sound did not suffer either. Sound man didn't have to wrestle with my sound as much.