NCD: EVH 4X12 Stealth

[Frehley12]

This cab with the EVH label Heritage G12Ms is absolutely a great value compared to the ridiculous high priced Marshall offerings. I don’t care that it's made in Mexico.

It sounds amazing right out of the box with my Jubilee 2555x. By the time I receive my Ceriatone King Kong (hopefully by June/July), the speakers should be well broken in. The cab is for that KK.

Btw, how come EVH cabs only come straight?

 

[Smash]

I think Van halen didn't buy the slant gimmick. he wanted a wall of straight cabs. congrats, man. I will be honest with you. I had an evh 412 stealth. The last day i had it, a guy came to try it with an '87 silver jubilee. That was the best amp/speaker combination I have ever heard. pure bliss. I almost just bought his jubilee and kept the cab

 

[Frehley12]

The matching V30 Jubilee cab can get piercing highs at times and those speakers are broken in. None of that happens with the EVH cab.

 

[crwnedblasphemy]

If they made a slant, I'd probably get one for sure. I'm not a straight 4x12 guy. I find them directional and boomy. This is my personal feel. Every time I used a straight cab live, certain people said they couldn't hear my guitar. Now when I would use a Carvin front loaded slant, got complements all the time. It was weird.

 

[TheGreatGreen]

I have a Mesa OS 4x12 straight cab sitting right next to an EVH 4x12 in my office. Compared to the Mesa, the EVH cab has a smoother top end (it uses Heritage Greenbacks which don't have the papery treble thing normal Greenbacks have), is slightly more scooped, and actually has a bigger low end, if you can believe that. I mean I'm sure that the Mesa could handle more low end overall, louder, if EQ'd that way, but with a flat signal at equal volumes, the EVH has a more resonant low end. The Mesa is more aggressive due to the high mid spike of the V30's. They blend very well together.

I love the Mesa for how controlled and even it sounds but at this point if I had to pick just one I think I'd keep the EVH. Ask me again in a week and you might get a different answer, but my point is that EVH 4x12's are awesome, awesome cabs that absolutely hang with the best 4x12's out there. I love mine.

 

[Smash]

I have a Mesa OS 4x12 straight cab sitting right next to an EVH 4x12 in my office. Compared to the Mesa, the EVH cab has a smoother top end, is slightly more scooped, and actually has a bigger low end, if you can believe that. I mean I'm sure that the Mesa could handle more low end overall, louder, if EQ'd that way, but with a flat signal at equal volumes, the EVH has a more resonant low end. The Mesa is more aggressive due to the high mid spike of the V30's. They blend very well together.

I love the Mesa for how controlled and even it sounds but at this point if I had to pick just one I think I'd keep the EVH. Ask me again in a week and you might get a different answer, but my point is that EVH 4x12's are awesome, awesome cabs that absolutely hang with the best 4x12's out there.

We all move around a bit. But I feel like cabs are very amp dependant. i used v 30s for a long time. I even used them in a cab mixed with another evh cab with the "greenies" like you. That blend worked for a lot of amps.

 

[Smash]

If they made a slant, I'd probably get one for sure. I'm not a straight 4x12 guy. I find them directional and boomy. This is my personal feel. Every time I used a straight cab live, certain people said they couldn't hear my guitar. Now when I would use a Carvin front loaded slant, got complements all the time. It was weird.

my first cab was a slant. It sounded great.

 

[Frehley12]

I hear you. I tried a few times with Mesa cabs (4x12s twice and a vertical 2x12) all with V30s. I just could not bond with them. They all had this "knock" if I remember.

My Marshall Jubilee loaded V30 cab doesn't have that "knock" in the low end.

 

[Smash]

I hear you. I tried a few times with Mesa cabs (4x12s twice and a vertical 2x12) all with V30s. I just could not bond with them. They all had this "knock" if I remember.

My Marshall Jubilee loaded V30 cab doesn't have that "knock" in the low end.

wonder if that is 8ohm vs 16 ohm rather than cab construction.