Wish Add 212 Dyna Cab - Mesa, Engl and Bogner.

[[Sandman]]

I conducted research on the best Cabinet's 2x12, for rock, metal and clean. He allocated three cabins with a dense sound:

1. Mesa Boogie Recto 2x12 Horizontal
2. Engl E212VB
3. Bogner 212 Oversized Closed

If there is such an opportunity and enough memory, add them in Dyna Cab format. But Mesa Boogie Recto 2x12 of course priority =)

 

[Randalljax]

A Mesa 212 and a Bogner cab would be nice additions

 

[[Sandman]]

Just listen to this sound !!!

 

[mr_fender]

I ran two Recto 2x12 cabs in stereo for a few years with my old TriAxis and 2:90 rig. Great sounding cabs and built like tanks, but VERY beamy. They sounded great until you moved directly in line with the speaker cones. It was like a lightsaber of brutal harshness. I'd sometimes turn them around to face the back wall of our jam room so they'd bounce and diffuse more. Poor man's beam blockers (gaffer's tape on the grille cloth at the dust caps) helped too.

They were definitely easier to move around than a 4x12 though and were very tight sounding in the low end.

 

[[Sandman]]

I ran two Recto 2x12 cabs in stereo for a few years with my old TriAxis and 2:90 rig. Great sounding cabs and built like tanks, but VERY beamy. They sounded great until you moved directly in line with the speaker cones. It was like a lightsaber of brutal harshness. I'd sometimes turn them around to face the back wall of our jam room so they'd bounce and diffuse more. Poor man's beam blockers (gaffer's tape on the grille cloth at the dust caps) helped too.

They were definitely easier to move around than a 4x12 though and were very tight sounding in the low end.

A very interesting comparison with the saber. It is for this density that they like.

 

[RiffDuck]

Recto 2x12 would be sick!

 

[Anton Karelin]

+1

 

[Greg Ferguson]

1. Mesa Boogie Recto 2x12 Horizontal

It takes some time to capture and process Dyna-Cabs. In the meantime, the 2x12 Lead 80 and 2x12 Texas Star are available as Dyna-Cabs. Alternatively, the factory "Legacy" cabs have four 2x12 Recto cabs, captured by Ownhammer.

When setting up Amp and Cab blocks, the IR and the speaker impedance curve have a lot of effect on the sound, and you can deliberately mismatch the two to get hybrid cabinets. Adjusting the SIC's parameters can help make the difference.

Also, digging through the Wiki's Cabinet models list can help identify similar cabinet and speaker combinations and some creative EQing or again, adjusting the SIC's curves, can push the sound closer to what you want.

 

[Harm]

I had a recto 2x12. It blew away my marshall 4x12 with greenbacks.. more low end, great growl.

 

[Corinthian]

I ran two Recto 2x12 cabs in stereo for a few years with my old TriAxis and 2:90 rig. Great sounding cabs and built like tanks, but VERY beamy. They sounded great until you moved directly in line with the speaker cones. It was like a lightsaber of brutal harshness. I'd sometimes turn them around to face the back wall of our jam room so they'd bounce and diffuse more. Poor man's beam blockers (gaffer's tape on the grille cloth at the dust caps) helped too.

They were definitely easier to move around than a 4x12 though and were very tight sounding in the low end.

Did you ever try flipping them on their side, and did it help? Speakers are much less beamy when arranged vertically than horizontally.

 

[Bertotti]

I don’t have any of those 2x12 but I built my own. A alnico cab Weber silver bell 15 watt and Grey wolf 15 watt. Another with two Weber 1230-55 ceramic 15 watts, and my current go to a Weber silver bell and blue dog ceramic 15watt.

That said those grey wolf speakers sound so good. I might build a 4x12 with them to complement my xxx4x12 cab. I’m a speaker junkie. Cabs can so dramatically change the sound and character of an amp.

I love trying different cabs in the axe. Are those called IRs? I haven’t learned the terms like I should and I have not tried to make my own IR yet. Not even sure where to start yet. But all the 2 x 13 mentions by the OP sure would be nice!

 

[mr_fender]

Did you ever try flipping them on their side, and did it help? Speakers are much less beamy when arranged vertically than horizontally.

I usually ran them vertically (turned on their sides), side by side with my rack on top spanning across them. I'd often angle them slightly outwards for more stereo spread. That had no impact on the dispersion pattern of the speakers though. It simply changed where the beams were pointed. Beam blockers or bouncing them off a wall were the only things that really helped even out the beamy treble response for me.

The wide, even spread of the coaxial tweeter in my CLR cab is like a miracle in comparison. It's quite consistent as I move around my office/man cave.