RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
May 27, 2022 at 4:28 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2022 at 4:30 am by Rev. Rye.)
Watched Jim Lill's new video about where tone in a guitar amp's speaker cabinet comes from. And unlike his experiments in where an electric guitar's tone comes from (by this point, it's more or less just down to the pickups [model, position, height, and slant angle] and volume pot value), it looks like there's more variables with the speaker cabs:
And narrowing the list of 12 factors down to the factors that actually correspond to real-world use:
And narrowing the list of 12 factors down to the factors that actually correspond to real-world use:
- The back of the cabinet matters. Closed back, open back, and if there's still a back plate but a big open gap, that changes the lows (below about 200 Hz) in very confusing ways.
- Dividers between speakers within a cab can shift the low frequencies emphasised, though not by too much.
- Planks over the speakers Vox-style cut down on highs above 3 kHz.
- Speaker models naturally change the tone, even if it's in a multiple speaker cab. If one speaker is changed, the tone gets changed, even if that one particular speaker of a different model isn't being miced.
- Of course, tone changes if the number of speakers you have changes. More speakers, more lows.
- Cab size affects the tone, with larger boxes emphasising lower frequencies.
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