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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: DeanS on May 31, 2006, 10:56:22 AM

Title: Speaker choice
Post by: DeanS on May 31, 2006, 10:56:22 AM

I shall be speccing up a small speaker cab for my Nano and was wondering if anyone had any views on speakers and their character/sounds. I've never been convinced by the V30's and want something with an earlier break up /gritty sound to complement the nano etc.

Ideally 16 ohm and any size from 8'' to 12''

Cheers

Title: Speaker choice
Post by: Underground_Player on May 31, 2006, 12:17:31 PM

Check out the speaker clips on this site:

http://www.proguitar.de/AudioDemo/AudioDemo.html

...as posted by hunter in the Time Out section. :)

The differences between the speakers here is pretty accurate.

In my opinion you need a G12M, but bare in mind that you'll have a job overdriving any speaker with Nano power.

Some Celestion's aren't as sturdy as they once were (for once I can safely say.....fact) but again with Nano power you shouldn't have any probs.

Title: Speaker choice
Post by: DeanS on May 31, 2006, 12:25:25 PM

Underground, thanks for that, I think the Jensen is closer to what I'm looking for....

Title: Speaker choice
Post by: Underground_Player on May 31, 2006, 12:29:10 PM

Fair enough. Glad I could help. :)

Title: Speaker choice
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on May 31, 2006, 01:17:50 PM

Out of curiosity: why a small cab?!
I played the Nano thru a 4x12, and thought it did a great job, as does my other uber low-powered amp, the venerable Smokey!

Title: Speaker choice
Post by: mikeluke on May 31, 2006, 01:23:27 PM

I'll throw another thought into the ring. Have you looked at/considered Eminence speakers? The Patriot range are more US-like (Jensen) and the Red Coat range more Celestion-based.  Worth a look

Title: Speaker choice
Post by: DeanS on May 31, 2006, 01:47:34 PM

Twilight, I'm looking at a small cab and relatively low efficient speakers as I want to keep the volume to a minimum when running the Nano flat out.

Also don't know whether its due to speaker flyback (back emf's of a larger speaker) but sustain is better when using the inbuilt speaker than with a V30?? I know the inbuilt speaker was included for fun more than anything else but it does have some good qualities as well a some bad ones!

Title: Speaker choice
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on May 31, 2006, 02:58:08 PM

Quote from: DeanS

Twilight, I'm looking at a small cab and relatively low efficient speakers as I want to keep the volume to a minimum when running the Nano flat out.

Fair enuff. :)

Title: Speaker choice
Post by: Elliot on May 31, 2006, 08:18:22 PM

Have you considered  2 x Celestion Tube 10s set in Award Session Pilot cabs- top quality and not going to knock walls over.  Session do 1x12s too.

http://www.award-session.com/amplifiers_cabinets.html

Title: Speaker choice
Post by: DeanS on May 31, 2006, 08:58:44 PM

Elliot, like the sound of the tube 10's! After some quick web searches it seems that they like to break up/distort very early on- just what I'm after!

Probably go for a 2X10 in parallel for 16 ohms

Thanks