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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hal Lindes is the consummate musician’s musician. You’d have to be nothing less to share the stage and studio with the likes of Mark Knopfler, with whom Lindes recorded and toured the Dire Straits albums Making Movies, Love Over Gold, and Alchemy. Not long after, Lindes became a prolific film and TV composer, scoring a […]
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 […]
