Bad.Seed
Well-known member
It's wild to be how cabs can change the sound so drastically. Not speakers, the cabs themselves.
Last week I spotted a used pre-BAD Soldano straight cab on guitar center's used site for $549. I'd been wanting to add a Soldano cab to the collection and although I was waiting to grab a newer v30 loaded one, as I'm not a fan of eminence legends, I pounced on this at the price.
Fast forward 3 weeks as it took them forever to ship (3 weeks to ship, 2 days actual transit) and it shows up. First thing I do when I get cabs from GC is check the speakers. Often times they're not what they should be, with no note on the site to mention.
Much to my surprise, someone loaded the cab with g12k100 speakers and v30 speakers in an x pattern. Ok, I'm not mad at all.
Go downstairs to plug it in with my Avenger 100 and.....nadda. No hum, pop out of standby, nothing. I immediately shut the rig down and opened it back up. Didn't notice earlier, but most of the speaker leads had been cut. Wtf?
I bash GC often and hard for how bad of a job their employees do on intake testing of used gear. But this is ridiculous. They must not have even bothered to check this cab. If someone bought this thing and tried cranking their amp through it not knowing what the issue was, easy fuse, tube or transformer failure could have occured.
ANYWAYS, I spent the next morning fully rewiring the cab because the wire that was in it was as thin as the stuff you find in Marshall 1960 cabs, and I had some extra 16 guage so I figured might as well.
I buttoned the cab back up, and.....
HOLY SHIT. How can a cab this small have this much low end? It was actually kind of absurd how big and tight the low end is on this cab. Caught me completely off guard. I'm very familiar with the speaker combos as I've had it in a couple other cabs l, never really loved it. But here, this thing tightened the low end on the Avenger so much, and made it so punchy, that I now can't stop playing the combo.
It's a smaller cab in terms of dimensions, but sounds anything but small. I'm satisfied, all considered.
Last week I spotted a used pre-BAD Soldano straight cab on guitar center's used site for $549. I'd been wanting to add a Soldano cab to the collection and although I was waiting to grab a newer v30 loaded one, as I'm not a fan of eminence legends, I pounced on this at the price.
Fast forward 3 weeks as it took them forever to ship (3 weeks to ship, 2 days actual transit) and it shows up. First thing I do when I get cabs from GC is check the speakers. Often times they're not what they should be, with no note on the site to mention.
Much to my surprise, someone loaded the cab with g12k100 speakers and v30 speakers in an x pattern. Ok, I'm not mad at all.
Go downstairs to plug it in with my Avenger 100 and.....nadda. No hum, pop out of standby, nothing. I immediately shut the rig down and opened it back up. Didn't notice earlier, but most of the speaker leads had been cut. Wtf?
I bash GC often and hard for how bad of a job their employees do on intake testing of used gear. But this is ridiculous. They must not have even bothered to check this cab. If someone bought this thing and tried cranking their amp through it not knowing what the issue was, easy fuse, tube or transformer failure could have occured.
ANYWAYS, I spent the next morning fully rewiring the cab because the wire that was in it was as thin as the stuff you find in Marshall 1960 cabs, and I had some extra 16 guage so I figured might as well.
I buttoned the cab back up, and.....
HOLY SHIT. How can a cab this small have this much low end? It was actually kind of absurd how big and tight the low end is on this cab. Caught me completely off guard. I'm very familiar with the speaker combos as I've had it in a couple other cabs l, never really loved it. But here, this thing tightened the low end on the Avenger so much, and made it so punchy, that I now can't stop playing the combo.
It's a smaller cab in terms of dimensions, but sounds anything but small. I'm satisfied, all considered.
