Hi guys,
I went down the rabbit hole of "finding the right speaker for my amp, even though the old ones are fine". Last weekend, I stripped an old 4x12 cab of it's speakers and put in 4 different speakers. I soldered a selector switch together, that enabled me to switch speakers on the fly. Downside to the experiment: I only had one of each. I used some old (mid '80 / '90) Celestions, which sounded horrible, IMO. I also had a Celestion V30, WGS Invader 50 and a Celestion G12M-65 Creamback, which sounded cool!
I found that I liked the Creamback a lot, at least: on it's own, in a 4x12 enclosure without the backplate on. I compared it to my gig-cab, which is a Bogner 412 with V30 / Greenback speakers. There's something in the V30 sound that I recognized from using it in the 412 I stripped and my Bogner cab. It's in the high mid frequencies - not something that I dislike or love; just always there.
The Creamback didn't have that and I think I liked it better. I see other Friedman cabs being offered with Creamback speakers, but the normal 412 is still with V30 / Greenback speakers. I am thinking along the lines of a G12M-65 Creamback / G12H-75 Creamback combination for a 412 cabinet.
Anybody tried a 412 (or smaller) filled with Creambacks for their BE-100?
I went down the rabbit hole of "finding the right speaker for my amp, even though the old ones are fine". Last weekend, I stripped an old 4x12 cab of it's speakers and put in 4 different speakers. I soldered a selector switch together, that enabled me to switch speakers on the fly. Downside to the experiment: I only had one of each. I used some old (mid '80 / '90) Celestions, which sounded horrible, IMO. I also had a Celestion V30, WGS Invader 50 and a Celestion G12M-65 Creamback, which sounded cool!
I found that I liked the Creamback a lot, at least: on it's own, in a 4x12 enclosure without the backplate on. I compared it to my gig-cab, which is a Bogner 412 with V30 / Greenback speakers. There's something in the V30 sound that I recognized from using it in the 412 I stripped and my Bogner cab. It's in the high mid frequencies - not something that I dislike or love; just always there.
The Creamback didn't have that and I think I liked it better. I see other Friedman cabs being offered with Creamback speakers, but the normal 412 is still with V30 / Greenback speakers. I am thinking along the lines of a G12M-65 Creamback / G12H-75 Creamback combination for a 412 cabinet.
Anybody tried a 412 (or smaller) filled with Creambacks for their BE-100?
