What's your favorite cab for high gain amp?

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My favorite cab, from the ones I own and or have played, it's the 5153 4x12. This cab gets everything sounding great through it. The cabinet it's also bone stock. It's a cabinet that with a bit of volume stay amazingly articulate, defined and very very very tight! Every amp I own sounded great through this cabinet. For classic rock, metal, pop, blues, nu-metal, trash, etc... It's the does it all cabinet.
Now for different flavors, the Mesa Recto 4x12 it's a no brainer for metal, and the Harry Joyce front loaded with Scholz would scare the shit out of those who claim they have a mean guitar sound. Whenever I plug an amp to the Harry Joyce cab to get a heavy sound I call it my "earthquake" setup. Not your typical tone, but it can sure make some damage.
 
The front loaded Bogner uber x you already have,
And i got rid of my oversized Mesa's for The smaller, tighter Traditional/stiletto cabs.

Some amps sound best through one or the other, just depends on the amp.
 
Bogner straight 4X12 with V30s or Cameron straight 4X12 with H30s. The Bogner OS 2X12 with V30s is not to shabby either!!!
 
Love the EVH 5150 III cabs with greenies. They need to be broken in well as usual, but they just sing with anything.
Tried 2 old back ported Hiwatt cabs with V30. They sound huge, without fizz.
 
new German Diezel front load 412 with V30's. Every amp that likes V30's that I've ran through mine sounds better than it did with it's matching brand cab. A HUGE example of that is a dual or triple rec through a Diezel FL cab, tight aggressive bottom end with strong mids compared to the awe full oversize recto cabs.
 
fluff191":2cyz141k said:
Mesa Stiletto cab. The Marshall sized one. Tight as Hell and the lows don't get out of control as easily.
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+1 :rock:

Tight bottom and fat mids never harsh, perfect for 5150!
 
I bought a new Cosmo Bogner Straight 4x12 about a month ago with V-30's and H-30's mixed. I took my Friedman BE-100 down to GC in Nashville. I hooked it up 3 different Bogner 4x12's. One with Greenbacks, one with V-30's, and one with V-30's/H-30's mixed in x-pattern. I chose the mix. It seemed like there was so many frequencies being missed in the spectrum with just one Celstion speaker type for the BE-100. They had one in the box in the back I bought. So the speakers are still being broken in. The more I push it, the better it sounds. It's sounds so much more dynamic. I've owned the Ubercab in the past to. It's a great cab for high gain. Someone also mentioned the Celestion G-12 65's. There's a studio in Nashville that has a old Marshall cab with the checkered basket weave loaded with them. It sounds awesome. Though I didn't have my BE-100 then.
 
Two Bogner 4x12 straights with old Celestion G12-80s. Even more aggressive midrange than a V30 but close to EV like clarity in the low and high end.
 
Diezel FL V30/K100 X Pattern
Bogner Uberkab
Splawn Straight Cab
 
Bogner slant 4x12 with V30's is my best cab...sound great with any amp but I leave it paired with the 101B.

VHT slant 4x12 with P50E's is my next favorite cab of mine..
 
Another +1 for Diezel. I have a front-loaded 2x12 with V30's that sounds monsterous.
 
I owned an Uber and ran with Orange PPC Closed Back 4x12, sounded great. Gonna try the same cab with the Friedman Brown Eye
 
Rear loaded Uberkab. Haven't tried front though. The normal size Mesa slant cab is great too.
 
JamesPeters":g598pvrd said:
Voltage VB412, with the single-piece back (not the variable back) option. (Using the single-piece back makes the sound more focused at very high volumes with high gain and bass.)

http://www.voltageamps.ca/Voltage_Guita ... B_412.html

Deep and articulate sound but not too "stiff" either; there's some "movement" to the sound, although it still holds up very well for loud volumes and lots of gain/bass.

I favor a mix of WGS Invader and Liberator speakers in the cab, and a small extra touch I like is having it wired parallel-series to bring the mids up front a bit more.
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+1
I have one as well. These cabs rock. I'm kind of surprised they aren't more popular on the forums. Seriously underrated.
Splawns are great also for a more refined/modern version of a marshall 1960.
 
Webb":3u5u26eh said:
Another +1 for Diezel. I have a front-loaded 2x12 with V30's that sounds monsterous.
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+1 running the same thing w/65's into a 100w Einstein. FL's are tight and beefy :rock:
 
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