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Celestion Introduces their Revolutionary Line of Impulse Responses (IRs)

Ipswich, UK (January 18, 2017) — Celestion, the premier manufacturer of guitar and bass loudspeakers and professional audio drivers for sound reinforcement applications, is very proud to announce their revolutionary new line of Impulse Responses (IRs), the definitive digital representations of their renowned classic guitar speaker tones.  Created by Celestion using state-of-the-art gear, award-winning engineers and a world-class live room, the IRs offer users unlimited creativity and possibilities in owning their perfect tone. With the launch of the new website, Celestion Plus, IRs featuring seven different classic Celestion loudspeaker models, each in five different speaker cabinets may be auditioned, purchased and downloaded for use in studio and live production applications.

Celestion IRs, which capture the essential behavior of the cabinet in the specific space in which it was recorded, including the frequency and phase response of single drivers as well as the interaction of multiple speakers, offer the user significant benefits. In both recording and live production, Celestion IRs enable the desired tone to be precisely and consistently reproduced regardless of the music recording or live sound environment. And IR users can escape the limitations of a single mic and cabinet setup and explore a universe of possibilities to create the perfect tone. Once you find a tone that you love, it can be precisely recreated, in the studio or on the road, time after time. And, for the first time, Celestion customers can audition specific models before purchasing one or more physical speakers.

“Celestion have always been at the forefront of guitar speaker tone, so it should be no surprise that our impulse responses are the best available and the most accurate digital representations of your favorite tones,” says Nigel Wood, Celestion Managing Director. “We have a deep understanding of tone, as well as the complex, technical methodology required to capture it in the most precise and faithful way. Responding to a clear market demand, we see our definitive digital download products as a natural extension of Celestion’s product range — providing the authentic speaker tone you crave — but simply in a digital, rather than physical, format.”

The initial list of Celestion IRs available for purchase includes the company’s popular G12M Greenback, G12M-65 Creamback, G12M-75 Creamback, G12H Anniversary, G12-65, Celestion Blue and Vintage 30  models mounted in 1×12 and 2×12 open and closed back and 4×12 cabinets. The Celestion IRs were captured using a variety of spot and room microphones at Decoy Studios in England by U.K. recording engineer, producer and mixer Mike Spink, renowned for his work with artists such as The 1975, Jake Bugg and The Gaslight Anthem, who also created a menu of presets for each speaker model. Decoy Studios is home of mixer Cenzo Townsend, two-time recipient of The Music Producers Guild’s Best Mix Engineer award, who has produced special demonstration Celestion IR tones for the new web site.

Celestion IR digital downloads are available in uncompressed, industry standard .WAV format at 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz and 96 kHz sample rates at 24 bit depth, in lengths of 200 and 500 milliseconds Once the files are downloaded and unzipped, users simply load the IRs into a convolution plug-in in their DAW or into other processing hardware. These formats will work in all known hardware capable of loading IRs, and for the most popular hardware Celestion have already grouped together the correct formats. The Celestion IR files may be downloaded in the sample rate and length appropriate for the hardware being used or as a complete package of all rates and lengths. Certain third party hardware requires the files to be converted into a proprietary format before use.

For more information about Celestion Impulse Responses, visit www.celestionplus.com.

About Celestion and Celestion Guitar Speakers

An important element to essential British guitar tone since the birth of Rock & Roll, Celestion Guitar Speakers are famous for their lively and vocal midrange character with plenty of sparkle and chime. With worldwide headquarters in Ipswich, England, Celestion design, develop and manufacture premium guitar and bass loudspeakers, and high-quality professional audio drivers for sound reinforcement. These world-renowned speakers are used onstage and in clubs, theatres and other venues the world over. Contact Celestion at: info@celestion.com and visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/celestion.

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Talking about the Creamback H

Rick Skillman, our man in California, was talking a little bit about the back story of the Creamback H on this edition of the The Flo Guitar Enthusiasts radio show. Click on the link here to hear hte show.

Studio guest is Dan Boul, president of 65 Amps, who talks in-depth about the ethos behind his company (and his love of Celestion!)

Click here to find out more about the G12H-75 Creamback, aka Creamback H.

The V-TYPE Guitar Speaker : Radical New Tone

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.

CELESTION ANNOUNCES THE ALL-NEW V-TYPE GUITAR SPEAKER

Available in 8 ohm or 16 ohm variants, this pressed steel frame, ceramic

magnet guitar speaker delivers 70-watt power handling and an output sensitivity

(SPL) of 98dB.

The V-Type produces an exciting, modern vintage sound that’s described as “airy and open, while delivering a formidable low end.” It is 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, with just enough upper-mid chime and HF sparkle to add clarity and definition. Crank it up for a sizzling overdrive and raw rock tones, with 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 ‘flavor’ compared to a G12M or G12H. The V-Type is a sweet-sounding speaker with a superbly balanced tonal signature that imparts a real vintage musicality; 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 remarkable speaker’s family history. The V-Type truly is a modern guitar speaker with a vintage pedigree.

The Creamback H guitar speaker.

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.

Heritage Series: Re-Creating Legends

As developers of the world’s first dedicated guitar loudspeakers, many Celestion speakers have been in production for a long time, helping to define the sound of popular music along the way.

During these periods, the precise design and raw material specifications have changed to accommodate new manufacturing techniques and technologies as they have become available. Typically, the shape of the coil former might be simplified to reduce waste material, the adhesive used on the dustcap would be changed to a faster curing and sweeter smelling type, and the dustcap material itself would be changed as suppliers came and went. Magnet sizes changed when standards were altered and even the formulation of the cone edge treatment changed over time as easier-to-apply and better performing compounds were discovered.

The effect of each of these entirely worthwhile developments on the sound and response of the speaker was almost imperceptible. But taken collectively the shift was more significant, resulting in a thriving market for the limited supply of ‘original stock.’

We begin the Heritage process by deciding which ‘version’ of a speaker to re-create. Then, the exercise is to re-visit as closely as possible this example of the speaker by regressing speaker development back to its fundamental origins. In doing this, we strip away the changes like those listed above to recapture the particular tonal qualities of the speaker of that era.

The discovery of a large archive of information, drawings, blueprints, parts-lists and specifications during a factory move in 2003 proved invaluable in this process. We were also fortunate to be able to call upon the expertise of a former Celestion engineer who was able to qualify much of this archive information.

The original adhesives are no longer available, and have been superseded by modern equivalents. With some record of what compounds had been used in the early years, we are able to replicate with a reasonably high degree of accuracy the formula that would have been used at the time. Of course, the methods of application, drying time and so on are kept as close as possible to how it would originally have been.

Similarly the original edge treatment is no longer available. Thankfully, Celestion has a great deal of experience in tailoring edge treatments to specific applications and so we are able to mix a very similar sound-alike formula here in Ipswich.

The magnet assembly is critical to the tone of any speaker and any variation in magnetic flux (the amount of magnetism produced) will affect the sound. Accordingly, considerable time is spent finding exactly the right kind of magnet and perfecting the magnet assemblies, better to replicate the magnetic effect and hence the original tone.

Listening forms a vital part of the Heritage process. The objective is to replicate the tone of these speakers as they would have sounded out of the box many decades earlier but even an original sounds different as it is played in and suffers changes in humidity over time. Even so, we spend hundreds of hours in our purpose-built listening room, auditioning speakers of the era and comparing them with Heritage models in development.

We also speak to a wide range of interested and knowledgeable parties; former and long-standing Celestion engineers, customers who have used the original speakers and our Partners in Tone who, through listening and playing experience, have strong ideas about what the tonal qualities of these speakers should be. Input from Robben Ford, for example, was highy influential in shaping the final tone of the G12-65.

Finally, manufacturing and assembly processes are conducted by hand at our facility in Ipswich, England, and are largely the same as they were in the 1960s. Indeed some of the production staff have been working at Celestion for more than 30 years.

The result of this painstaking process is a range of speakers that evokes the sound of some of the most influential guitar speakers of all time. The Celestion Heritage Series currently comprises of four models; the G12M, G12H (55Hz and 75Hz version) and the G12-65.