NOSCD Times Three

[idsnowdog]

I picked up three 4x12's this week for a song. The first is a Kustom 4x12 with Celestion 65's for $50. The second was a Crate 4x12 in new condition and even has it's store tags which I traded a Crate 212GFX for. It has horrible Crate speakers though. Today I picked up a Marshall 4x12 with Celestion 35's for only $100. The Marshall will stay and at least one of the other two will go.

 

[jeremy]

damn man, youre on a roll! is it a 1960av or a different marshall cab?

 

[idsnowdog]

damn man, youre on a roll! is it a 1960av or a different marshall cab?

It's the newer smaller 4x12 that you find with Valvetates and newer Marshall's. I believe it's a Marshall 8412? I will post some pictures after cleaning it up.

 

[Demanic]

Depending upon how solid the Crate cab is, you may want to just swap the speakers with the smaller Marshall cab.

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[idsnowdog]

Depending upon how solid the Crate cab is, you may want to just swap the speakers with the smaller Marshall cab.

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The Crate is a straight cab with metal grill. The Marshall is a slant top cab. The Marshall has 2x35w Celestion G12L speakers in the top and 2x65w Celestion 16 ohm speakers in the bottom and I have the same setup in the Kustom slant top. I basically took two from each cab and swapped. By wiring the two types of speakers in series and then combining them in parallel at the jack they are 8/9 ohms on my meter because the 16 ohm speakers actually read closer to 13 ohms. I suspect the Crate cab may sound better than the Kustom cab but I still need to test it. I also bought two Electro Harmonix 75w Creamback clones from Muisician's friend so I will see how I like them.

 

[Demanic]

Are they ply or MDF? Ply tends to be a bit more durable.

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[idsnowdog]

Are they ply or MDF? Ply tends to be a bit more durable.

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All three are MDF I believe.

 

[Demanic]

Ok, just wondering.

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[idsnowdog]

I lined the back and sides of the Marshall cab yesterday with 1/8in felt flooring underlayment and that really brought out the chunk by attenuating the high-frequency standing waves in the cab. It still sounds resonant but without the high-frequency hash or sounding constipated like when removing the air gap in the cab.