Please help with this speaker choice!

[curtainswamp]

Hey guys, I have a Hiwatt 4x12 that's filled with old Vintage 30s and G12H's. The problem is the cab sounds great BUT has a scoop in the mids that creates problems cutting through the mix over my other guitarist. He uses an avatar contemporary 4x12 with Vintage 30s and it has dramatically more mids than my Hiwatt cab. I can't afford a new cab so I was looking for advice on trying different speakers.
I thought of -
A: Replacing the H's with 2 more vintage 30s
B: Celestion V type in place of the H's
C: Totally re-speakering (because they're only available in 8 ohm) with the Avatar Hellatone 25. The youtube vid where the guy pans v30 and h25 is great. Much prefer the H25.
Also considering the 20 watt VanHalen Celestion.
Again, need more midrange presence. Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

[moltenmetalburn]

Im thinking A first. Seems like the phasing is creating a hole.

 

[TrueTone500]

Hey guys, I have a Hiwatt 4x12 that's filled with old Vintage 30s and G12H's. The problem is the cab sounds great BUT has a scoop in the mids that creates problems cutting through the mix over my other guitarist. He uses an avatar contemporary 4x12 with Vintage 30s and it has dramatically more mids than my Hiwatt cab. I can't afford a new cab so I was looking for advice on trying different speakers.
I thought of -
A: Replacing the H's with 2 more vintage 30s
B: Celestion V type in place of the H's
C: Totally re-speakering (because they're only available in 8 ohm) with the Avatar Hellatone 25. The youtube vid where the guy pans v30 and h25 is great. Much prefer the H25.
Also considering the 20 watt VanHalen Celestion.
Again, need more midrange presence. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Have you tried playing your head through his Avatar cabinet?

 

[fek]

l like the sound of a Greenback type mixing with V30's. So my vote is to either replace the H's with greenies or go all Greenback in your cab.

Friedman loads his cabs up with 2 of each, Cantrell has a mic on a V30 and Greenback for his live tone, and the list could go on.

 

[Brandon Breeze]

Option A makes sense, & since V30's are fairly common you should be able to get them in 8 or 16 ohm for a reasonable price. V30's have a pronounced mid range, so that should solve your cutting through problem.

 

[TrueTone500]

The speakers you are using have nothing to do with it. If you can't cut-through using V30/G12H's in a Hiwatt cabinet, you need to be looking at your amp and/or pickups.