Curious about speaker replacement

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Get an original little pignose & run through it as a pre for your fender - It'll sound great (but not hypermetallic red sorry).
 
soundchaser59 said:
Fender is pretty good about not putting speakers in their amps that cause resonance issues, which is what you are describing when you say it sounds like it is "gonna vibrate itself to death"....resonance can be thought of as a sympathetic vibration, the speaker inducing even more vibration in itself and/or the cabinet at a specific frequency.
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It might do it if he is using a pedal to get most of his distortion and he has all the mids sucked out. I've had people come in here with their pedals tweaked like that. It sounded like the speakers crapped out no matter which (known good) cabinet I ran it through.
 
Farview said:
It might do it if he is using a pedal to get most of his distortion and he has all the mids sucked out. I've had people come in here with their pedals tweaked like that. It sounded like the speakers crapped out no matter which (known good) cabinet I ran it through.
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Agree.....there is something else going on here, not the speaker....
 
soundchaser59 said:
Agree.....there is something else going on here, not the speaker....
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I seriously doubt anybody actually reads the entire thread anymore. We've already stated using a small fender combo amp in a band practice setting is not the best, or even a good choice for metal. You need a real amp with real tube distortion. Most likely, he's running a mediocre pedal with the mids scooped and the bass/treble way up and trying to turn it as loud as he can. Most metal guitarists go through that stage (I did!). It takes a while for one to really understand where great metal tone comes from. It's the mids that really add balls and loudness to the sound. Scooping them out makes it much, much harder for a single- or dual-speaker cabinet to cut through the mush of the other instruments, especially at high-volume.

He needs a half-stack, preferably with tubes instead of solid-state crap.
 
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