Does anybody else think that the G12H30s . . .

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in the 112 combos is way to peaky and resonant?

Maybe it's just my guitar, but I've really felt like I have to tiptoe around this speaker.

I'm using a Koch Loadbox to attenuate my Mephisto combo's G12H30 on the 1% output. Seriously, that's the only way I can tame it to bedroom levels if I want to explore all tonal options this amp offers. It sounds great now, but before I never knew if it was gonna practically squeal out.

Maybe it's just because my Moog Guitar has such a focused mid-high range . . .
 
To be perfectly fair when I demo'd the New Yorker combo at my local GC w/ my Moog Guitar it buzzed like an agitated cicada and peaked out. The Bogner Mephisto combo NEVER buzzed that much when pushed and cranked, perhaps because of the larger cabinet design

The New Yorker did not buzz very noticeably when I demo'd it with a Gibson SG, but that was a year ago anyway.

I used the Mephisto head with a Mesa Horizontal Rectifier cab and it was much more balanced across the frequency spectrum imo. In this track there is some distortion, but generally this is due to the extended delays on the Way Huge Supa-Puss and the gain staging of my Moog pedals. The Mephisto was in parallel amp mode with clean settings on both channels, ++ mode on first schizo setting of the EL84 channel, and "blackface" mode of the 6v6 channel. https://soundcloud.com/thecrimsonmoog/the-submerged-temples-of


 
Haha. I assure you that's not my sole concern here.

I've owned a Bogner Mojado and a a G12H30 112 Open back cab that I used either a Barcelona or Brixton. With all of those I had to watch out for those peaks. I also had a 212 Bogner Vertical V30 cab and it would never peak out. The one benefit of the G12H30 is the clarity (great for effects), but I think you pay the price for that clarity when you really crank up or high those high notes.

I've even heard that Jimi Hendrix disliked the peaks and squeals of G12H30s and only continued to use them because they didn't break down.

Maybe it's time that Reinhold break free of the Celestion models he's sworn by so long. For such a progressive designer, doesn't it seems backwards to stick to the older speaker designs?

What if he switched to hempcone? Rumour has it that a hempconed G12H30 is much smoother in the highs and not prone to resonant peaks.

It's just a thought . . .
 
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