Which Speakers are your favorite?

[Brow]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

My Orange 4x12 has 2 30 yr old 25w Celestion Greenbacks and 2 25w McKenzie speakers (which I haven't heard of before). It's a great cab for vintage Blues and Rock. So I guess Greenbacks get my vote

 

[59paul]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

Celestion Vin. 30's

 

[JALIN]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

I like V30s and Mesa Blk Shdws and that is exactly what I have in my Recto cab.

 

[B2D]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

I'm going for a tone that is mostly modern rock but has that hint to vintage sweetness that everyone loves. I think most of you get what I'm talking about. Like 75% modern slickness and power and 25% vintage loooove. Get it?

Soo.... there's a local authorized Marshall tech in town. If I take my cab in and ask him to rewire it to 8ohm can he do it? or is it something I can do myself?

 

[dystrust]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

I don't know if it's possible to re-wire a 4x12 cab with 16 ohm speakers to 8 ohms. However if you wire all 4 speakers in parallel, it will be a 4 ohm load.

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

I don't know if it's possible to re-wire a 4x12 cab with 16 ohm speakers to 8 ohms. However if you wire all 4 speakers in parallel, it will be a 4 ohm load.

It isn´t without adding resistors or similar. It can be wired as two 8 ohm cabs, one 4 ohm, or one 16ohm

 

[B2D]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

It isn´t without adding resistors or similar. It can be wired as two 8 ohm cabs, one 4 ohm, or one 16ohm

The Marshall cab that I want has one 16ohm input, and my Mesa head has two 4ohm inputs and one 8ohm input. The boogie manual sez 8ohm out into a 16ohm cab is a safe mismatch but I'd rather just match the values up.

I read somewhere that lower ohmages made the tone louder an bassier... think 4 will be too much? Think 16 will be too little?

Gah, why can;t they just make an 8ohm Greenback cab?

Avatar will but they won't do a slant with cloth and tolex cover.
:yell:

 

[Braciola]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

I have a Bogner straight 4X12 with vintage 30's and G12H30's in an X pattern. That combination is my favorite for high gain tones.

 

[TheMist]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

Mesa Black Shadows are nice.

 

[B2D]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

I have a Bogner straight 4X12 with vintage 30's and G12H30's in an X pattern. That combination is my favorite for high gain tones.

Here are some clips of different speakers that might help some who don't have the luxury to experiment with different speakers.....

http://riffenstein.kingsmeade.net/speakers.htm

I was thinking of doing that with the Silver Series/ v30 X pattern. G12H30s are like high-power crosses of Greenbacks and V30's, right?

 

[B2D]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

Right??

 

[Stevo]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

Weber ceramic blue dogs are the ones I like for Marshall style distorted sound. The mids really jump out of these things and the bass response is very tight.

I like the old greenbacks too. I have a new greenback which is also not bad at all.

For Fender sounds I like jbl d120f and Jensen or Weber c12n.

 

[Wattage]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

I have a pair of Greenbacks that I love, almost sold them but Jeffrec talked some sense into me. They're about 17 years old and nicely broken in sitting in a big old Bassman bottom, eventually I'll get the right head for them and be all set.

 

[Gr8Scott]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

One question I have regarding speakers is why someone would want a matched set in their cab? Wouldn't it produce a richer more complex sound if you used 4 totally different speakers with their distinct voice coils, construction etc? I view speakers the same as I view preamp tubes. If they all have their own unique voice, why use a matched set that will all sound the same?

 

[Stevo]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

Gr8Scott I hear you but I have discovered that you can also have phase cancellation with certain different types. It takes a bit of experimentation to find a match that works for you.

 

[Stevo]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

Right??

I think the "H" means heavier magnet, for more low frequency response.

 

[Lee_M.]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

Ive got a vintage 30 ENGL cab and it rocks, and lots of the guitar tones i love are done with vintage 30's, but i heard a clip of vintage 30's compared to all other speaker types (by bob savage) and one of the others were g12h 30's, and they sounded so sweet so they get my vote!

Hey, I do too! Do you have one of the older Cloth Grilles or the newer Metal Grilles?

As for the question in the thread, I like the Vintage 30's. They sound much better at higher volumes than they do at low volumes.

 

[Lee_M.]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

For Fender sounds I like jbl d120f and Jensen or Weber c12n.

The JBL D-120F is a sweet speaker, too. I have one sitting without a home. It definitely does the ABB vibe if that is what you are searching for.

 

[B2D]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

Thanks for all the advice, guys. I'm getting the Marshall 1960AX cab (greenback loaded) tomorrow so I'll let everyone know how it turns out. Thanks!

 

[Gr8Scott]

Re: Which Speakers are your favorite?

I forgot... You aren't running the speakers one speaker at a time in a chain like you are tubes. You use them all at once (at least in function). Phase cancellation becomes a real factor then for sure... Thanks for the heads up.