Building your own 1×12 guitar speaker cabinet is a rewarding project that allows plenty of scope for customisation and the great news is you don’t need to be an acoustic engineer to design a fantastic-sounding cabinet! While measurements like the Thiele-Small parameters (Vas, Qts, Fs, etc.) are crucial for high-fidelity audio or bass cabinets, guitar […]
So you’ve built a beautiful cabinet and picked out some sweet speakers—now comes the wiring! Don’t overthink this part; it’s one of the easiest steps, but getting it right is crucial for killer tone and reliability. The Best Wire Type: Stranded Copper Forget solid core, shielded cable, or anything fancy. For internal wiring within your […]
The Peacekeeper is a revolutionary new attenuating guitar speaker: it’s the simplest and most toneful way of being able to dial your amplifier right up to its sweet spot, while keeping the decibel levels down. As any guitar player knows, a great amp sounds at its best when you turn it up loud but unfortunately […]
The Celestion 100 Meticulously hand-crafted in the UK, the Celestion 100 celebrates the world’s first purpose-built guitar loudspeaker which, in various guises, has voiced some of the most legendary and memorable riffs and solos of all time. Invented in 1936 as a radio speaker, the general purpose ‘G12’ was used in many applications. Several versions […]
One question we’re often asked is “how old is my speaker?” Well, whether it’s truly vintage or was built just a handful of years ago, if your speaker is in reasonable condition, then it’s straightforward to find this out for yourself. Most Celestion chassis drivers have been marked with a date code (two numbers and […]
Jim Campilongo has been called “an American treasure” by Billboard and the “sultan of twang” in The New Yorker. In 2013, Fender honoured him by releasing the Jim Campilongo Signature Telecaster, a 50-unit reproduction of the 1959 Tele from which he’s been inseparable throughout a lifelong career that has presented opportunities to play with Charlie […]
In just over 15 years, producer and guitarist Mark Lewis has run up one of the most enviable — and loudest — discographies in rock. He has tracked, mixed, produced, and/or mastered records for a spectrum of metal’s heaviest bands, including Trivium, Bury Your Dead, Whitechapel, Chimaira, Battlecross, Cannibal Corpse, Megadeth, The Black Dahlia Murder, […]
‘My band has a replica of an Acoustic Amp 408 cabinet, it dates back to the seventies. The original speakers were a mix of types and brands, but basically these were 15” speakers rating at 75W each. The cab sounded great with our bass player’s vintage Ampeg Blueline SVT head and the Aguilar DB751 head. […]
Songwriter and guitarist Gordon Kennedy has brought his family’s musical legacy to bear on an enviable and influential Nashville career. His father Jerry Kennedy was a legend in his own right, playing guitar and Dobro with superstars such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Roger Miller. Gordon has won two Grammys, the first being […]
The F12M-150 Triple Cone is a new guitar speaker designed for use with profiling amps, modeling software, impulse responses, and the technology for emulating guitar amps and speaker cabinets. Digital tone-emulation technology is more popular than ever, and guitarists who use it require full-range, flat and accurate output. General-purpose pro audio speakers (as in powered […]
