Speaker breakup and saturation - give me examples

[JohnnyGuitar]

I know Yngwie uses speakers who won't breakup (accept more watts then the amp produces) how does speaker saturation and breakup sound?

Can you give me songs that represnt a good exmple of someone pushing the speakers hard and examples of songs where the speakers being used have higher wattage reading then the amp produces?

 

[kmcguitars]

Re: Speaker breakup and saturation - give me examples

Listen to Jimi Hendrix `Live at the winterland' If you want to hear what a plexi and celestion sound like right B4 they croke.

 

[JohnnyGuitar]

Re: Speaker breakup and saturation - give me examples

Anyone has more examples?

 

[ES350]

Re: Speaker breakup and saturation - give me examples

Pat Hare on 'I'm Gonna Murder My Baby'---a P12R in meltdown mode.

The Albert King stuff on Stax has quite a few cuts where at least one speaker is blown...

Joe Hill Louis---'Chocolate Blonde'

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Speaker breakup and saturation - give me examples

Joe Hill Louis---'Chocolate Blonde'

Now this guy has some serious good tone for those days / and even for today !

Also, listen to his tune, "When I am gone"

Recorded in Memphis, March 31, 1952.

After that recording session, the speaker(s) had to be replaced !

:smokin:


OT :

. . . does anyone know what guitar he used in this time-period of his life ?

 

[ES350]

Re: Speaker breakup and saturation - give me examples

I have a picture of him on the wall with a Gibson L-10 (maybe a pre-war L7) and a DeArmond pickup, and I've seen other pix with a ES125...yeah, that crazy incredibly distorted 9th chord he plays in the middle of that tune is truly psychedelic. One of Hazel Adkins big influences, it sounds like...