Cab for JCM800, 2x12 or 4x12

Don't get the B-52 junk. If you can't get a Marshall 4x12, find a Laney, Avatar, anything with Celestions that weighs something. The B-52's are terrible sounding.
 
The problem with the cabinets is the size and the construction. It effects the sound a great deal. The best speakers in the wrong cabinet sound bad anyway.
 
Here are two quads! The Laney I have owned since new and weighs a ton but kicks serious butt. The Marshall is a good quad but not a scratch on the Laney. They both are Celestion loaded!
 
The only thing that worries me about the tech 21 cabinets is that i think they would be designed to be really really flat.

That 2x12 carvin is pretty darn cheap and they have the legacy series if i want to go 4x12.
 
Farview said:
The problem with the cabinets is the size and the construction. It effects the sound a great deal. The best speakers in the wrong cabinet sound bad anyway.
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Not true. The quality of contruction part is, but even Jim Marshall said about designing the 412 cab that he just made the smallest thing that would hold 4 12" speakers. There is ZERO acoustic design outside of the birch plywood they use.

Now some of these custom cab designers say they acoustically tune the cabs, but I bet only 50% of them even understand what it means to tune a cab and only 50% of them have even tried.

Almost all guitar cabs are just a box with a circle cut out of the middle. No more, no less.
 
I think I'm going to get the 2x12 Avatar splitback with vintage 30's and if I ever need more headroom, my amp has two outputs so I could use my Fender combo amp speaker with it. But two questions:

a. would all of this work? :-)
b. if i'm running both 8 Ohm cabinets at the same time, would i set the Ohms on my amp to 4, 16, or 8?
 
Gorty said:
Here are two quads! The Laney I have owned since new and weighs a ton but kicks serious butt. The Marshall is a good quad but not a scratch on the Laney. They both are Celestion loaded!
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I've got a Laney 4x12 from the 80's paired up with a 50 watt JCM800. It fuckin' rocks. It's got Vintage 30's in it and it is very heavy. Easily 30+ pounds more than any Marshall cabinet i have ever come across. It sounds way better as well. The only thing I don't like about it is that it is covered in grey carpeting. I just don't like that, but it sound too good to get rid of.

Is that one in the picture carpet covered as well? I can't tell.
 
Outlaws said:
Not true. The quality of contruction part is, but even Jim Marshall said about designing the 412 cab that he just made the smallest thing that would hold 4 12" speakers. There is ZERO acoustic design outside of the birch plywood they use.

Now some of these custom cab designers say they acoustically tune the cabs, but I bet only 50% of them even understand what it means to tune a cab and only 50% of them have even tried.

Almost all guitar cabs are just a box with a circle cut out of the middle. No more, no less.
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So it was a happy accident. There are a bunch of different cabinets with vintage 30s in it, they don't all sound the same. The dimensions and the solidity(?) of construction make a big difference.
 
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