They spent 18 months in the studio recording Pyromania and when they hit the road, they were one of the tightest bands I have ever seen.
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They spent 18 months in the studio recording Pyromania and when they hit the road, they were one of the tightest bands I have ever seen.
Amp Mad Scientist
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Any given speaker will have better frequency response, and better efficiency in a closed back ported cabinet.I got the Celestiin Creamback Neo. It's light!
Already installed it in the little combo and the first impression sais it wasn't worth the money. I can't A/B it with the 70/80 but there is nothing that strikes me as very different. The amp still sounds better through the Celestion Gold in the other cabinet.
The cabinet could of course have something to do with it. The Gold and the 70/80 are both played in, the Creamback is not, that could also make a difference.
Maybe I should build a new cabinet for the amp? I have a couple of old Ikea shelces in the garage, made from 12mm solid fir. They're heavy as hell but would make for a fine cab.
Or.. Do what eSGEe sais
An open back cabinet is lighter, but sacrifices bass response especially.
And there are a lot of crappy speakers out there...
too bad we rely on advertising hype to select speakers. Because the advertising is just a heap of BS typically.
Better professional speakers cost a lot of money...but to me it's worth spending more.
Ebidis
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Yes, they were very good live. Very tight, and lots of energy. Great show.
They are actually one of the best live bands I have seen. And LOUD!
chilipeppermaniac
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Not Culture Club?
chilipeppermaniac
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I break my speakers in with a little KISS.
chilipeppermaniac
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Folllowed by some choice, Priest
CoyotesGator
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Negative soldier
chilipeppermaniac
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One of my first and favorites of all the awesome Deep Purple songs.
Beagle
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I first saw them at a battle of the bands at the Leadmill in Sheffield. They lost (came third), but as their management organised the event, they miraculously won, a fact not reflected in the local newspaper story that evening...
chilipeppermaniac
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chilipeppermaniac
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Variac and Speaker Break-in??
What make and model variac do I need for breaking in speakers and how is it done?
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Play two, 3 hour sets with me and you'll be good.
The wife is gonna be out of town next week on a girls trip. So my plan was to break in 3 cabinets, a NOS 4x12 Marshall 1960s - the orange one, a Marshal 2x12 Santa left me, and a 4x14 cab I got from @Sp8ctre and put 2 Creambacks and 2 Vintage 30s in. My plan is to use a 100W Sony AV amp that has outputs for a A pair and B pairs of front speakers. That gives me 4 connections to 8 ohms each to drive. Gonna connect a CD player and crank tunes for hours/days. While Eruption would be a good frequency diverse driver, I don’t think I could loop THAT cranked for 8 hours 
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That's how I play guitar...
SkyMonkey
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I've been seeing DM live on and off since their 3rd album in '83.
Love 'em. Got all their albums!
The lead guy is Martin Gore. I never realised until recently that he wrote all their songs on guitar (his first instrument before taking up keys).
Now he mostly plays guitar live, playing his songs reworked back onto the guitar.