FTX1025 Suggested Crossover and Cab Alignment

The FTX1025 is a 10″ diameter cast frame common motor coaxial speaker, with a single ferrite magnet that acts as a motor for both LF and HF drivers saving space and weight. With a 2.5″ voice coil, the speaker provides a 600W continuous / 300W (AES standard) power rating with a 96dB LF sensitivity (104dB […]

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FTX0820 Suggested Crossover and Cab Alignment

The FTX0820 is a 8″ diameter cast frame common motor coaxial speaker, with a single ferrite magnet that acts as a motor for both LF and HF drivers saving space and weight. With a 2″ voice coil, the speaker provides a 400W continuous / 200W (AES standard) power rating with a 94dB LF sensitivity (103dB […]

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FTX0617 Suggested Crossover and Cab Alignment

The FTX0617 is a 6.5″ diameter cast frame common motor coaxial  speaker, with a single ferrite magnet that acts as a motor for both LF and HF drivers saving space and weight. With a 1.75″ voice coil, the speaker provides a 300W continuous / 150W (AES standard) power rating with a 92dB LF sensitivity (103dB […]

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TFX0515 Suggested Crossover and Cab Alignment

The TFX0515 is a 5″ diameter pressed steel chassis ferrite magnet coaxial speaker, representing  a performance upgrade over the earlier TFX0512. With a larger 1.5″ voice coil, the speaker provides a 150W (AES standard) power rating with a 89dB LF sensitivity (96dB HF sensitivity). It incorporates a silk dome tweeter and integrated HF waveguide to […]

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Telecaster Master Jim Campilongo Talks Tone, Technique and Celestion

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 […]

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Pro Audio Legends: An interview with Ralph Heinz of Renkus-Heinz

The success of Renkus-Heinz is a family affair, with three generations of the Heinz family, as well as a number of veteran employees of more than 20 years working together at the company’s headquarters in Foothill Ranch, CA, where the majority of the company’s products are still designed and manufactured in-house. Ralph Heinz joined the […]

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Metal and Mettle: The Rise and Rise of Mark Lewis

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, […]

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PULSE 15 Bass Cab UPGRADE

‘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. […]

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Gordon Kennedy on the Calling of Music and the Sound of Celestion

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 […]

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