Author Topic: Overdrive thread that turned into amp thread =P (Read 23875 times)

dave_mc · « **Reply #60 on:** October 05, 2006, 08:53:35 PM »

special design, especially in low-mid price amps, tends to mean "specially designed to be as cheap as possible, quality of tone be damned!"

i have a special design celestion in my marshall avt100. i mean, seriously, i could probably design a better sounding speaker, and I only have gcse physics, and I got it about 7 years ago...

so yeah, don't judge eminence by your "special design" speaker...

_tom_ · « **Reply #61 on:** October 05, 2006, 08:56:27 PM »

hahah fair enough. Its not actually a bad speaker, for sparkly cleans at least it sounds perfect. My mates got one of those AVT cabs and its awful. My fender was so dull through it. Anyway I reckon I'm gonna try getting that 2x12 with eminence as they seem to get great reviews, and the guy selling it describes the tone as "big and warm, not too much treble but not muffled, great bass and mids" which sounds to me like a good match for the Laney if people are right in saying its a bright amp.

dave_mc · « **Reply #62 on:** October 05, 2006, 09:09:51 PM »

:drink:

_tom_ · « **Reply #63 on:** October 05, 2006, 09:12:56 PM »

Getting all excited now :lol: how sad of me. I'd better like the damn head now after all this consideration. Dont see why I wont though. Next 2 months are gonna go SO slowly.

Elliot · « **Reply #64 on:** October 05, 2006, 09:33:05 PM »

Fender/Eminence special design is a cheaper imitation of the Jensen C12 series (which is bright and trebly) - have you ever consider changing the speaker in your HRDx - to a Celestion V30 or something?

_tom_ · « **Reply #65 on:** October 05, 2006, 09:51:23 PM »

Yeah I did consider it. But I thought it'd probably take away from the nice bright cleans it has. Seeing as I'm probably gonna have the Laney for a rock amp, the Fender is perfect for cleans and blues :D

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #66 on:** October 07, 2006, 12:10:24 PM »

Koch cabs have Jenson speakers Tom! Just try before you buy with your gear.

dave_mc · « **Reply #67 on:** October 07, 2006, 12:49:10 PM »

^ i thought they had koch speakers?

_tom_ · « **Reply #68 on:** October 07, 2006, 03:31:03 PM »

Quote from: Johnny Mac

Koch cabs have Jenson speakers Tom! Just try before you buy with your gear.

Trouble is I cant find anywhere to try out the stuff I want to get :lol: I guess I can try out the cab when I go to pick it up (if I win the auction) but it'll be hard to tell what its gonna sound like with the head I want to get!

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #69 on:** October 07, 2006, 04:05:48 PM »

Quote from: dave_mc

^ i thought they had koch speakers?

Ok your right in the sense that they brand them as their own but they make them in conjuction with Jenson. The full details of this I don't know.

dave_mc · « **Reply #70 on:** October 07, 2006, 05:23:47 PM »

^ ah, ok, cool. I didn't know that. :drink:

_tom_ · « **Reply #71 on:** October 08, 2006, 10:15:16 PM »

w00t! Just won the eminence 2x12 cab for £83.99... even if the speakers arent much cop, it should be a good enough enclosure to put some better ones in, the guy says its made of some kinda hardwood so it should sound ok.. :D

Twinfan · « **Reply #72 on:** October 08, 2006, 11:06:41 PM »

Nice one!

RorySRV · « **Reply #73 on:** October 09, 2006, 06:37:58 PM »

Quote from: TwilightOdyssey

_tom_, can you not play either pedal before buying?

If so, I would say: buy from a place that will allow you to exchange it for the other if you do not like it.

I live nearby in the center of Brighton so I have the luxery of being able to pop into GAK anytime I want

If you ever are thinking of going to Brighton take the train and I can give you directions to GAK tom

They are very understanding guys in there. As long as they think you are willing to buy it and not just there to muck about on the gear they will let you try anything from guitars, amps, pedals etc

Although you might want to bring your guitar with you if you intend on trying a pedal or amp because obviously you want to know what it sounds like on your guitar :)

You should come down sometime. GAK is a guitarists dream. They have pretty much everything !!!

RorySRV,

38thBeatle · « **Reply #74 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:32:06 PM »

I was hoping to get into GAK last weekend but something came up. I need a few bits and bobs. the missus likes mooching around the shops and I get to have my five minutes in GAK.