Best cabinet / speakers for metal?

[droptrd]

Metal & Midrange you say? Just find something good with V30s. My new favorite speaker is Mesa C90. Like a V30 with extended top and bottom. Much wider and more demensional. Load those in a quality cab such as mesa, bogner deizel etc, and your golden. I believe the speaker is the most crucial component as long as the cab isnt a total peice of junk. Get a good cab then tailor it to your amp by speaker swapping. Cause money grows on trees

 

[BeZo]

I have a VHT cab with the V30 T75 cross, and it does everything metal. It sounds great. If I was doing metal, that would be my cab. Lately I've been playing rock though, so my cab of choice has been a Marshall with Greenbacks. I would go out and get a good cab (Mesa, VHT, etc.) and load the V30 T75 cross. Hell, you might even be able to talk me out of my T75s for some Mesa V30s. It's a great combo, but it's not flubby enough (at all) for the rock tone I'm going for.

 

[9ball]

Marshall mode four straight cab w/V30's? I have one. Not bad

 

[headlessdeadguy]

VHT FB with WGS Veteran 30s and HM75's. Best cab I've ever used for metal.

 

[EOT]

I have a Diezel 4x12 with EVM12Ls. I have yet to find an amp that doesn't sound good through it. It even turned my Marshall jcm900 dual reverb into a beast. The FL Diezel with K100s is the same way. The Vaders sound really good with amps that have a lot saturation gainwise like 5150s and rectos but are kinda "flat" sounding compared to a V30 type cab.

But it really all depends on the amp an your tastes.

 

[JerEvil]

A Splawn 2x12 sounds as big as most 4x12 cabs, same with the VHT FatBottom 2x12.

Yup. My Splawn 2x12's with the Celestion Creambacks kill.

 

[Ventura]

As per my PM... I think the Fryette Deliverance and FB cabs are some of the absolute BEST cabinets in the industry. Sure, sure, the stock P50Es may or may not be your cup of tea, but the cabs themselves are outrageously solid. I put 'em up there with Diezel cabs for bombproof design and QC. Maybe better.

So - grab a Deliverance or FB and swap out the drivers to taste. Personally I prefer the Deliverance as it's more lively, but hey, personal preference and YMMV. Ultimately it's the amp on top that makes the decision, but for a solid, do-all, killer cab that'll run the road with you and deliver jam after jam, gig after gig, it's definitely in the realm of Fryette.

The speakers?? V30s are midrange rich, we know this. Want thunder? Load it up with G12K100s and flatten your immediate vicinity. G12Ks have a touch less compression when driven hard; they're more neutral, and man, they hold their bass in a badass way.

Good luck!!
Mo

 

[JackBootedThug]

mesa metal grill with ms-12's, or with ev12&ms90's. love those fucking cabs.

 

[155]

yep marshall with the x pattern for me...I hate those mesa oversize cabs fwiw..

 

[Jofipe]

Marshall..

 

[TheMagicEight]

I think I'm going to do some speaker swapping tomorrow. Sounds like the V30 X T75 combination is a pretty good bet!

 

[D-Rock]

I loved the V30xT75 mix when it was in my Marshall. It was the cab itself I wasn't too fond of.
If I still had that 1960A I think my 2203KK would probably dismantle it over time.

 

[Mudder]

I was talking speakers with someone recently and they mentioned that g12k-75s are an important part of guys like Wolf Hoffman and Adam Jones sound. I have not been able to verify that, and those aren't modern metal, but I was a little surprised. I expected it to be v30s.

 

[Robotechnology]

Marshall mode four straight cab w/V30's? I have one. Not bad

I have one of these as well and think they are the best bang for the buck cab out there and worlds better than 1960 cabs. Are Bogner cabs better sounding? Yes (I have two of those as well) but, they cost double so they better.

 

[_actual time_]

Marshall mode four straight cab w/V30's? I have one. Not bad

I have one of these as well and think they are the best bang for the buck cab out there and worlds better than 1960 cabs. Are Bogner cabs better sounding? Yes (I have two of those as well) but, they cost double so they better.

the stock speakers in the Mode Four cabs--the special, different V30 that's in them, V30 MF aka Hellatone 60L, are my fav speakers for metal. tighter and more scooped than a normal V30; no midrange honk but still plenty of mids thickness.

they sounded good in the Mode Four straight cab i had for a little while. i think the Mode Four cabs are slightly bigger dimensions than the Marshall 1960 cabs.

i now have two of them in a Bogner OS 2x12. best of both worlds.

 

[Mudder]

I thought the mode four came in 2 configurations; the 280 with 4 k75s and the 400 with 4 k100s? I have a 280 and it doesn't sound like v30s.

 

[primerib]

mesa recto cabs. I've had countless cabs and my favs will always be the Mesa rectos. the only other cab to make me go wow was a Carvin legacy cab. something about thing made everything sound great. I could never put my finger on why

 

[_actual time_]

I thought the mode four came in 2 configurations; the 280 with 4 k75s and the 400 with 4 k100s? I have a 280 and it doesn't sound like v30s.

i forget if the Mode Four 4x12 i had was model 280 or 400, and i don't know if they changed the speakers to something else later, but the stock speaker in them for a long time was "Vintage 30 MF", which Hellatone also sold for a while as the Hellatone 60L (not 60).

it's a variation on the normal V30, custom-made for Marshall. the model # on the white sticker on the side of the magnet is different. Hellatone used to say it had a different voice coil but was otherwise the same as a V30. it sounds noticeably different.

pop open your cab if you like and see what yours are.

 

[greenmosheen]

Countless metal bands and players have relied on Marshalls and Mesas for decades. And a large number of cabinets designed for high gain seem to be loaded with V30s and/or T75s. 2+2=4.

 

[thenine]

UberKab hands down for me