BGood
Well-Known Member
Well that my friend, makes all the difference. We can talk all we want about tube or solid state amps, but for me it's all in the cab. One can make almost any amp sound good. But that tone has then to go through a speaker, which is fixed in a cab. Different speaker size and style remodel your tone, but so does the cab in which is the same speaker.
Everywhere you read on speakers, universally everyone barfs on the 12" Celestion Seventy 80. But in almost every test video I've seen with that speaker against others, for me it comes out as one of the winners. Good for me, I can usually get a used one for $25 or so. I find that it doesn't color the tone of my amp/guitar/pedal. I have two of those in different cabs, and most all the latest tracks you've heard on my Soundcloud are through one of them. My playing might suck, but do the tone sound bad to you on any of those tracks ?
https://soundcloud.com/drbgood
Where I want to go with this, is that the speaker will sound immensely different from one cab to the other. I have one in a 18"W X 15"H X 12"D with two 2" portholes on the front baffle. It sounds very good either with the Handsome Devil or the Super Champ. Much much better than the celebrated BH112, so much that I'm going to sell this last one.
Now ... I have a second 12" 70/80 in a 15"W X 15"H X 12"D and it sounds different enough to prefer the larger cab to this one. So I drilled two portholes the same size of the big one, but in the back since there is no space on the front baffle. It helped a lot in getting a better bass response, but it is still very different from the larger one.
Both are built from the same sheet of plywood.
I think I'll build a still bigger cab for a third 70/80, to see where it leads the tone quest.
