Hi All,
We are pleased to introduce the first in a new line of cabs. These cabs are a first I think in that we are utilizing actual guitar speakers, with no tweeters... the way tube amp and guitar cabinet manufacturers have been doing it for decades.... literally from the beginning.
That's not to say us FRFR guys have been doing it wrong but we have been doing it different. Our favorite guitar cabs don't have tweeters (more accurately, there are no guitar cabs that have tweeters) and our favorite FRFR cabs do (more accurate to say all FRFR's have tweeters), but the FRFR cabs don't have guitar speakers.
Our modelers though, need a flat response speaker for very obvious reasons. Since guitar cabs aren't flat response in any form or fashion we have tended to use FRFR systems.... that have tweeters... that don't use guitar speakers.
We have sought to marry these two facets together and bring the best of the guitar cab world into the flat response world... at least flat response within the ability that any particular guitar speaker has the range to do so.
We also sought to eliminate as much as we could the dreaded beaming that has caused so much grief to those within it's path. The speaker grille utilized in the Retro Series has been tweaked to help prevent beaming from being an issue.
A major objective with this series is to bring back the FEEL of a guitar cab. There isn't a better way to do this than to use guitar speakers. In Mode 5, this cab is a V30 cab, straight up with a very flat amp pushing it.
This cab plays very well with and without IR's, even in the same amplifier mode. Mode 1 is Flat Response and we liked patches with and without IR's... no tweaking needed... or very little. We had patches that we could just toggle the IR on and off and we really liked it both ways with no changes needed at all. This obviously worked best with V30 based IR's but it wasn't limited to those either.
We decided to start with the Celestion Vintage 30. It's a popular speaker all around so we figured it'd be as good a place to start as any. We'll also do this in a wedge format and will add some other guitar speakers... like the Creamback, a Classic Lead 80 and the Neo Creamback for starters.
So, if what you want to hear can be created by a guitar speaker, then these cabs will do the trick. I know it may sound weird to say 'if what you want to hear can be created by a guitar speaker' but the reality of IR's and FRFR's have brought what we hear from our modelers more into the studio control room than standing in the room with the cabinet. Nothing wrong at all recreating what we hear in the control room but it is often rather different than what we hear in the room with the cab and the feel is certainly different.
So some pics:
I have some video I'll share a bit later if it turned out ok.
Thanks all!
Mick
We are pleased to introduce the first in a new line of cabs. These cabs are a first I think in that we are utilizing actual guitar speakers, with no tweeters... the way tube amp and guitar cabinet manufacturers have been doing it for decades.... literally from the beginning.
That's not to say us FRFR guys have been doing it wrong but we have been doing it different. Our favorite guitar cabs don't have tweeters (more accurately, there are no guitar cabs that have tweeters) and our favorite FRFR cabs do (more accurate to say all FRFR's have tweeters), but the FRFR cabs don't have guitar speakers.
Our modelers though, need a flat response speaker for very obvious reasons. Since guitar cabs aren't flat response in any form or fashion we have tended to use FRFR systems.... that have tweeters... that don't use guitar speakers.
We have sought to marry these two facets together and bring the best of the guitar cab world into the flat response world... at least flat response within the ability that any particular guitar speaker has the range to do so.
We also sought to eliminate as much as we could the dreaded beaming that has caused so much grief to those within it's path. The speaker grille utilized in the Retro Series has been tweaked to help prevent beaming from being an issue.
A major objective with this series is to bring back the FEEL of a guitar cab. There isn't a better way to do this than to use guitar speakers. In Mode 5, this cab is a V30 cab, straight up with a very flat amp pushing it.
This cab plays very well with and without IR's, even in the same amplifier mode. Mode 1 is Flat Response and we liked patches with and without IR's... no tweaking needed... or very little. We had patches that we could just toggle the IR on and off and we really liked it both ways with no changes needed at all. This obviously worked best with V30 based IR's but it wasn't limited to those either.
We decided to start with the Celestion Vintage 30. It's a popular speaker all around so we figured it'd be as good a place to start as any. We'll also do this in a wedge format and will add some other guitar speakers... like the Creamback, a Classic Lead 80 and the Neo Creamback for starters.
So, if what you want to hear can be created by a guitar speaker, then these cabs will do the trick. I know it may sound weird to say 'if what you want to hear can be created by a guitar speaker' but the reality of IR's and FRFR's have brought what we hear from our modelers more into the studio control room than standing in the room with the cabinet. Nothing wrong at all recreating what we hear in the control room but it is often rather different than what we hear in the room with the cab and the feel is certainly different.
So some pics:
I have some video I'll share a bit later if it turned out ok.
Thanks all!
Mick
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