I fancied a 15" speaker

[DavidRees]

I was posting a few months ago about 15” speakers and how well they work for guitar in some circumstances. Well I took the plunge and now it has arrived – courtesy of Paul at Zillacabs – green on black tolex with a basket weave grill cloth and a Jensen Neo 15" [courtesy of Hotrox] and it looks cooler than an awful lot of very cool things and sounds spectacular – bright, clear punchy and even better than I thought it would.
Currently fed by the amp from my Peavey Classic 50 combo I have found myself the sound I had in my head. An additional plus for us old folks is that with the Neo speaker it is very light and easily portable
For the steel and slide players out there it sounds amazing with the Yamaha SG500 I recently had customised for slide playing through it – it’s got Bare Knuckle Manhattans on it which are low powered very clean humbucker sized P90s – part of my idea to go with the 15” was the dynamics and breadth of sound that a number of steel players get from them – this has proved me right, you can be subtle but you can be downright dirty too – a little too bright on the bridge pickup? That is what the tone control is there to tame.
Paul at Zillacabs was amazing at turning my idea into a reality with something that was not a standard item for him. Can’t recommend highly enough.
Now, I wonder what amplifier would make it even better???

[HTH AMPS]

Tasty work.  I'd let the speaker settle in, the brightness should reduce once you have a months worth of playing through it.

I like 15" speakers too, they're not bassy like people expect - just bigger bass and less midrange (in my experience)

[Plexi Ken]

That does look very good, I think something like a Fender Bassman clone would sound great with it  8)

[Tricalibur]

Yeah, I love 15's for guitar. I've got two Eminence Big Bens in a 4x12 style enclosure under my 1960b and it adds just enough bottom end without sounding bloated.

[DavidRees]

and so I've got this amazing new speaker cabinet and I was thinking, I wonder what amplifier would make it even better???

this is for home use, jamming with friends, maybe the occasional small pub backroom, no drummers to compete against and was thinking about EVA, MTW or Tipton

any advice much appreciated - david 

[DavidRees]

forgot to mention - looking for something mainly clean sounding [thinking of using an MXR Custom Audio Overdrive in front for dirt] single channel no reverb no FX loop and not that fussed about tone controls really - david