What Speakers for a New Splawn/Quick Rod

[1meanplexi]

When I had my Quickrod, I had the Splawn 4x12 cab loaded with small blocks and it was incredible!!!!!

 

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When I had my Quickrod, I had the Splawn 4x12 cab loaded with small blocks and it was incredible!!!!!

I have a 2012 QR half-stack with the Small Blocks and love it! It sounds way bigger and more rich as a slant cab, then that head does running into my V30-loaded straight front 4X12s.

I just picked-up a Friedman Smallbox that sounds great through the V30-loaded cabs though. This is probably the richest sounding amp tandem I've ever had. The LP loaded with Fralin Pure PAFs certainly doesn't hurt!

 

[crwnedblasphemy]

I've been speaker swapping lately as well in my splawn 4x12.

Currently traded away the smallblocks...have 2 governors in it at the moment...awaiting some more speakers. Have 2 manowars coming, 2 more governors coming, and a buddy just gave me a new V30 he has laying in his garage. New soldering iron is ready.

Glad this thread came up, but i'm not sure if I will decide all governors, or x pattern gov/manowar. But the smallblocks weren't for me.

Necro-bump alert. What did you end up going with? I have a Mesa cab with Governors and it sounds great with the QR, My Splawn cab I have Small blocks and it doesn't have the edge that the Governors have. I'm thinking of going all Governors or maybe something else in the Splawn cab.

Exactly this^

I didn't even try the man o wars, even though I've had x pattern with those before. Just went with all governors. Depends on the style of music you are going for, but governors sound good. I kinda wanna try a Mesa traditional slant too.

 

[thefyn]

Splawn Quickrod also works good with g12t-75's.

The QR has an aggressive mid and relatively smaller low end to modern amps. And the 75 helps on those regards.

Out of all the speakers mentioned, I hope he went with the creamback 75'. Not a fan of Eminence speakers in general apart from the legends.

 

[thefyn]

I posted a clip this morning of my Quick Rod using the Creamback loaded Splawn 2x12's.

The first part is straight amp, cab, guitar. Then I added a few OD's to boost ('93 RAT and Monsterpiece COD)

Here's the link:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=162651

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Do you have any issues with the sound being overly bright? For me gear 2 was the sweet spot which was pretty toppy/middy and I'm pretty sure of the 65 creambacks are pretty toppy/middy.

You must have a hell of a lot of cut! Or do you use the 3rd gear and use lots of gain? that darkened it up for me. Or do you have darker pickups/downtune? So many questions!