which celestion speaker for recording

[gusfinley]

I have a Marshall JCM2000 DSL401 combo which came with a celstion 100W goldback speaker. It gives out blessed clean tones, but gives quite a buzz when ran distorted. Reviews at Harmony central seem to confirm this.

I want to keep the Gold back for its nice lean tones, but I want to have mose versatility for recording. I am wanted to get a good variety of tones out of this.

I am currently looking into getting a custom built cabinet from avatarspeakers.com as an extension for my combo. I'm planning on a closed back 2x12 cabinet with one celestion vintage 30 and one celestion Greenback.

Does anyone have an opinion on what celstion speaker would be a good versatile speaker for recording?

Anyone have any clips of these speakers in action?

thanks

 

[Sonixx]

The Greenback is a 25W speaker and the Vintage 30 is ~65W. Mixing this way is probably not a good idea. If your budget can handle it, I'd recommend you get two of each. You can then load the cabinet with either Vintage 30's or Greenbacks. I have a very similar setup. Just be careful driving the Greenbacks.

Another consideration is the impedance of the cabinet. If you think you'll want to drive the combo speaker and the cabinet, match the cabinet to the combo speaker. I'm assuming the combo speaker is at least 8 ohms. Now, assuming an 8 ohm cabinet, another thing to consider is whether to get two 4 ohm speakers wired in series or two 16 ohm speakers wired in parallel.

 

[gusfinley]

heres the sitch

THe combo speaker is 16 ohms, so I've gotta go for two 8 ohms in series to get the same impedence. Then I would be able to drive both the internal speaker and the external cab parallel with the 8 ohm output if need be.

My amp only puts out 40W so with two speakers the greenback is only going to get 20W, and the guy at avatar speakers said that this would not be a problem.

Two speakers of each kind is outta the question as I have no where to put a 4x12 cab.

 

[Sonixx]

sure thing...

i didn't mean to imply buy a 4x12 cab... i was suggesting you just buy the speakers and swap them when you want a different tone.

I have a similar setup with Vintage 30s and Greebacks.

good luck...