Cheese and Wine

[BeZo]

Do you consider pairing an amplifier to a specific speaker cab when chasing certain tones? Let's say you use a Marshall amp and a Marshall cab, not for the aesthetics of having everything say "Marshall", but for having a certain circuit designed around certain speakers. Mesa amps and V30s, or Marshall circuits and GB variants are the main examples. What else works? What doesn't work? I didn't like the 5150 III amps, or the Splawn Nitro I had through my Mesa cabs, but I always find myself losing sleep over flipping them before trying them on a GB variant speaker.

 

[fek]

Back in the day, when I didn't have a few different speaker cabs around to choose from, I would move some speakers in and out from time to time in the cabs that I did have. Over the years I have settled on greenbacks so the amps I move in and out either work with those or they do not. Age and lack of interest in moving 4X12's around or removing the back panels to swap speakers are the primary reason.

Current cabs in the room are two Marshall 1960B's with greenbacks, EVH 4X12 with the EVH greenbacks, and a Friedman SS 4X12 with the standard GB's and V30's.

 

[RaceU4her]

i dont. i have a 4x12 with four different speakers and a couple 2x12s with different combos so i never have the fear im missing on something when recording at least. i like picking random guitar/amp/speaker/mic combos and writing riffs around whatever tones that combo produces which is why my clips are usually all over the place genre wise

 

[Beyond Black]

Back in the day, when I didn't have a few different speaker cabs around to choose from, I would move some speakers in and out from time to time in the cabs that I did have. Over the years I have settled on greenbacks so the amps I move in and out either work with those or they do not. Age and lack of interest in moving 4X12's around or removing the back panels to swap speakers are the primary reason.

Current cabs in the room are two Marshall 1960B's with greenbacks, EVH 4X12 with the EVH greenbacks, and a Friedman SS 4X12 with the standard GB's and V30's.

If you can’t get an amp to sound good through Greenbacks, you’re either deaf or a bass player.

 

[Beyond Black]

Do you consider pairing an amplifier to a specific speaker cab when chasing certain tones? Let's say you use a Marshall amp and a Marshall cab, not for the aesthetics of having everything say "Marshall", but for having a certain circuit designed around certain speakers. Mesa amps and V30s, or Marshall circuits and GB variants are the main examples. What else works? What doesn't work? I didn't like the 5150 III amps, or the Splawn Nitro I had through my Mesa cabs, but I always find myself losing sleep over flipping them before trying them on a GB variant speaker.

I definitely do that. With any Marshall type amp besides a Silver Jube, I generally avoid V30’s like the plague, and much prefer Greenbacks and G12-65’s. Mesas definitely love V30’s, but four V30’s in one cab is too much for me. I really dig G12-75’s or G12-65’s in the top row with V’30’s. This mix will also make a cab more Marshall friendly than all V’30’s.
If I’ve got an upper mid heavy amp, I tend to go in the opposite direction with speakers, and vice versa.

 

[rottingcorpse]

Blades amp thru Vader cab is the BOMB!!

 

[ClintN667]

I think some amps are voices with a particular cab/speaker in mind. I tend to match in these cases

 

[thegame]

Blades amp thru Vader cab is the BOMB!!

Try a Blades amp turned to 10 with it's speaker cable plugged into it's input jack. It's like telling the amp to go fuck itself.

 

[311boogieman]

Try a Blades amp turned to 10 with it's speaker cable plugged into it's FX Send jack. It's like telling the amp to go fuck itself.

Fixed

 

[BeZo]

If you can’t get an amp to sound good through Greenbacks, you’re either deaf or a bass player.

Hey now! Bass players can dial in amps! Remember, guitar players become bass players because they don't practice, not because they don't care. It's drummers that can't tell the difference between treble and reverb on an amp.

 

[ZEN Amps]

Yes, trying amps through various cabs is good clean fun and opens tonnes of tonal options. I've said this before - connecting all our amps and cabs via KHE switchers has been shear joy (except for actually wiring it up).