The bigger the speaker?

[gripweed]

Looser or tighter bass in larger speakers?

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: The bigger the speaker?

I think the tightness really depends on the amp circuit, but I love the overall size of the notes that come out of a 15" speaker. It's great for making single coils sound bigger. Since the Twin Reverb now comes with either 2-12 or 1-15, putting those amps side by side would be a good way of comparing speakers.

 

[WhoFan]

Re: The bigger the speaker?

I think the tightness really depends on the amp circuit, but I love the overall size of the notes that come out of a 15" speaker. It's great for making single coils sound bigger. Since the Twin Reverb now comes with either 2-12 or 1-15, putting those amps side by side would be a good way of comparing speakers.

ya i wanted to try that Fender custom amp with 1x15 that was a tribute to the Amp Doctor dude that did work on SRV's stuff....

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: The bigger the speaker?

One thing about a 15in speaker is there aren't a lot of them that are low wattage or properly voiced for guitar. A lot of the speakers are for sound reinforcement so they have a pretty wide range and they might be too clean for guitar work. The others are designed for bass in a bi-amped situation. Also I would have to wonder how much more effective a 15in would be at reproducing the low end of a guitar? I would think you would end up with the guitar only occupying the upper parts of its frequency range.

Just the same I used to go to a blues club where the house amp was an old silvertone tube model into a very old 15in jbl and it was a great blues amp.

 

[D-EJ915]

Re: The bigger the speaker?

The more mass the speaker cone has the slower it will return to zero and the upper registers will suffer because of this.

Big speakers have tight low bass, small speakers have tight upper bass just based on the nature of the things.