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AC/DC have just kicked off their latest Arena tour in Europe and both Angus and Stevie Young are fully Celestion loaded.

T0530, the speaker that came to be known as the Alnico Blue, was the world’s first dedicated guitar speaker. It evolved from the “G12” radio speaker that was toughened to withstand the more rigorous demands of guitar amplifiers. Soon after it got a coat of Blue paint, and a legend was born….

Although produced in a number of different incarnations throughout the 60s, Alnico speakers went out of production by the 1970s due to the prohibitively high cost of the rare earth elements required to manufacture the magnets.

The in the 1990s, after the discovery of a cache of practically unused original 60s Blues, Celestion’s engineers got the opportunity to probe the speaker’s “tonal secrets”. And with the magnet materials more affordable once again, in 1994 the Alnico Blue was re-created in all its glory.

Find out more about the Blue by clicking here. Or read the attached datasheet, by clicking the PDF link below.

Brent Mason is one of the most recorded guitarists in history. He is a Grammy Award winner, a 12-time winner of the Academy of Country Music Guitarist of the Year Award and a two-time winner of the CMA Award Musician of the Year. He has been named as one of the top ten session guitarists in the world joining the ranks of Jimmy Page, Larry Carlton, Tommy Tedesco and Steve Cropper.

His top amp is a 1965 Fender 50-watt Bassman, customized by Nashville amp guru Kye Kennedy. Number two is a PRS 2-channel “H” for big angry tone. Last in line is a Matchless DC-30 he bought while tracking the first Shania Twain album.

For cabinets, Mason switches between a Little Walter tweed 2×12 loaded with 75-watt Celestion G12T-75s and a vintage Fender Bassman 2×12 with two Celestion Vintage 30s.

Check out the full article here.

We’re very excited to welcome a new endorsing artist to the Partners in Tone family: none other than instrumental rock guitarist and multiple Grammy Award nominee Joe Satriani.

Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, with many of his former students achieving fame, such as: Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons and Alex Skolnick.

In 1987, Satriani’s second album Surfing with the Alien produced radio hits and was the first all-instrumental release to chart so highly in many years.

In 1996, Satriani founded the G3, a concert tour intended to feature a trio of guitarists. The original lineup featured Satriani, Vai and Eric Johnson. The G3 tour has continued periodically since its inaugural version, with Satriani the only permanent member. Other guitarists who have performed in G3 include among others: Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Robert Fripp, Andy Timmons, Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker, Adrian Legg, Paul Gilbert, Steve Morse and Steve Lukather.

In May 2013 Satriani completed his fourteenth studio album, Unstoppable Momentum.

Joe plays through G12T-75 speakers.

After being retired from use for some time, Santana’s original, snakeskin-covered 100-watt Mesa/Boogie is back onstage with the master. Santana also plays through a pair of Dumble Overdrive Reverbs and a pair of Bludotone Universal Tone heads, one of which is a prototype.

The amps drive a pair of paisley-covered PRS 4×12 cabs. One cab is loaded with four Celestion Vintage 30s, the other sports two Celestion Vintage 30s and two Celestion G12-65s.

Clayton Mitchell, lead guitarist from Kenny Chesney’s band and Zeke Clark, the principal guitar technician who looks after the entire guitar backline for Kenny’s band, took some time out from the recent leg of the “No Shoes Nation” tour to talk to us about tone.

We sent over some Vintage 30s for the band, and they also tried out some G12-65s, and some Creambacks, just for some additional tonal flavor.

Clayton and Zeke were kind enough to tell us about themselves and what it is they love about Celestion. It’s great to officially meet you fellas – thanks for the endorsement and welcome to the Celestion family!

Clayton says: I’ve always used cabinets loaded with Celestion speakers because they always deliver a great guitar sound. Out on tour with Kenny Chesney I run my Top Hat 100 watt Emplexador through a pair of Celestion Vintage 30s which gives my les Paul a warm crunchy tone. I also have a Top Hat 30 watt Vanderbilt that I run through a pair of Celestion Blues that just have that chimey thing that sounds great with my strat. I’ve tried other speakers but I’ve always stuck with Celestion, because to my ear, they sound fantastic!

Zeke says: I’ve been a music professional for the past 38 years, I’ve worked on albums with such artists as Eric Martin, Journey, Jefferson Starship, Van Halen, Heart, Poison, Faith Hill, Clint Black as well as Kenny Chesney. On all the records my speakers of choice have always been Celestion, they have the best tonality of any speaker on the market and they’ve always been very reliable on tour, easily handling the power of my 100-watt amplifiers. For me, you just can’t beat the overall performance and sound!

Available in 8 or 16 ohm, this steel frame, ceramic magnet guitar speaker comes with a 70-watt power rating and 98 dB sensitivity.

The V-Type produces an exciting, modern vintage sound, described as “airy and open, while delivering a formidable low end.” It’s a speaker that provides authentic Celestion tone whatever your style and just makes you want to keep on playing. Clean sounds are true across the lows, mids and highs. It has just enough upper-mid chime and HF sparkle to add clarity and definition. Crank it up for a sizzling overdrive and raw rock tones. And expect plenty of mid-band warmth to give body and substance to lead note playing.

To achieve this, Celestion’s guitar speaker experts have carried out extensive work to refine the traditional manufacturing process. They applied advanced engineering know-how together with the application of modern materials, including innovations first used with the best-selling Creamback.

This has enabled the exploration of new tonal possibilities without compromising power handling or sensitivity, and still remaining faithful to the sonic spirit of Celestion’s greatest guitar speakers. The result is something that offers a different “flavour” compared to a G12M or G12H.

The V-Type is a sweet-sounding speaker with a superbly balanced tonal signature. It imparts a real vintage musicality but is built with the modern player in mind. A cool retro look complements the authentic Celestion tonality, so no-one should be in any doubt of this speaker’s family history. The V-Type truly is a modern guitar speaker with a vintage pedigree.

The Creamback H satisfies the higher power demands of modern guitarists, while channeling the vintage mojo of the original G12H.

Find out where to buy here.

Listen to tone samples here.

Back in the 60s, Celestion took the moving parts of a G12M guitar speaker and put them together with an “H” (Heavy) magnet, to increase power rating. This resulted in the G12H, which had significantly different tone as well as more power handling.

So we repeated this process for the Creamback, carefully incorporating an H magnet with the existing Creamback moving parts. The result was the 75-watt Creamback H. It delivers towering G12H tone with Creamback levels of power handling.

G12H fans will already know what to expect from this speaker: characteristic Creamback tone with a more structured bass and a harder edge. It adds focus and body to make single notes sound thicker while remaining dynamic and articulate, and provides an extended low-end that gives smaller cabinets the feel of a 4×12.

Creamback H is designed to be weapon-of-choice for uncompromising players who know how to handle a high-performance tone machine. It has a gargantuan sonic presence, tailor-made for the big occasion. So load up your best gigging cabinet and let rip!

Featuring a retro-styled cream can, Creamback H is built with an eight-hole chassis for hassle-free upgrading. Available now in both 8ohm and 16ohm impedances.