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Favourite 12" for DR

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Whats a great speaker 12" choice for a deluxe reverb?... please and thank you.

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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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Meatball on white, toasted with cheddar. Lettuce, onion, tomato and sweet chilli sauce. No salt or pepper, please

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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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Wrong thread, soz. As for blackface speakers, highly recommend a 10" Jensen Alnico. Worth trying out anyhow

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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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Cdog wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:44 pm Wrong thread, soz. As for blackface speakers, highly recommend a 10" Jensen Alnico. Worth trying out anyhow
I think it would fall through the baffle. Unless I got a square one maybe ...

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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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StrummersOfThunder wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:51 pm
Cdog wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:44 pm Wrong thread, soz. As for blackface speakers, highly recommend a 10" Jensen Alnico. Worth trying out anyhow
I think it would fall through the baffle. Unless I got a square one maybe ...
Between us we have far too many 12" speakers. We should just do trial and error.
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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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Or just buy one of those crazy expensive 100W Blackbird speakers.
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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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My favourite was the Eminence GA-SC64, followed by the Celestion A-Type and Greenback.

Emi was the most legit sounding
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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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robthemac wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:59 pm
StrummersOfThunder wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:51 pm
Cdog wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:44 pm Wrong thread, soz. As for blackface speakers, highly recommend a 10" Jensen Alnico. Worth trying out anyhow
I think it would fall through the baffle. Unless I got a square one maybe ...
Between us we have far too many 12" speakers. We should just do trial and error.
Excited for mega 12" fest

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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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TmcB wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:08 pm My favourite was the Eminence GA-SC64, followed by the Celestion A-Type and Greenback.

Emi was the most legit sounding
Interested in your experience with the ga-sc64

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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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StrummersOfThunder wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:41 pm
TmcB wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:08 pm My favourite was the Eminence GA-SC64, followed by the Celestion A-Type and Greenback.

Emi was the most legit sounding
Interested in your experience with the ga-sc64
I had rolled through all the usual Celestion suspects of Greenback, Creamback, and Gold and they were all too English for the voicing of the amp, too midrange heavy.

GA-SC64 had a little more mid push but still a distinctly American voiced speaker. With the DR it tightened the bass just enough to make sure that at higher volumes it still sounded sweet, and it had some good sparkle without being piercing.

It was the speaker I settled on with the DR I had, until I foolishly sold/swapped it.
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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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TmcB wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:11 pm
StrummersOfThunder wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:41 pm
TmcB wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:08 pm My favourite was the Eminence GA-SC64, followed by the Celestion A-Type and Greenback.

Emi was the most legit sounding
Interested in your experience with the ga-sc64
I had rolled through all the usual Celestion suspects of Greenback, Creamback, and Gold and they were all too English for the voicing of the amp, too midrange heavy.

GA-SC64 had a little more mid push but still a distinctly American voiced speaker. With the DR it tightened the bass just enough to make sure that at higher volumes it still sounded sweet, and it had some good sparkle without being piercing.

It was the speaker I settled on with the DR I had, until I foolishly sold/swapped it.
Sounds ideal
I wonder how they differ from the standard emi offerings(legend etc,)

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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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StrummersOfThunder wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:41 pm
TmcB wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:08 pm My favourite was the Eminence GA-SC64, followed by the Celestion A-Type and Greenback.

Emi was the most legit sounding
Interested in your experience with the ga-sc64
Aren't these the ones in the Bandmaster cab I'm currently looking after?
Jops wrote: Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:46 am Spring is the comic sans of reverbs anyway.

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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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That you had literally never opened because there were too many screws on the back panel?
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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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BG, what was that 12" of mine you put into a cab for whoever bought it off me? ( :roll: ) The one you had to re-colour to fix bleaching.
They're allegedly a great addition to a DR.

Was it some kind of EV?
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Re: Favourite 12" for DR

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robthemac wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:06 pm
StrummersOfThunder wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:41 pm
TmcB wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:08 pm My favourite was the Eminence GA-SC64, followed by the Celestion A-Type and Greenback.

Emi was the most legit sounding
Interested in your experience with the ga-sc64
Aren't these the ones in the Bandmaster cab I'm currently looking after?
yep

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