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Yeah, that makes sense that the 4x10's give the most neutral sound coloration.
It's a more versatile configuration.
-Marty
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From: reverbrob
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Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 1:11 PM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: 15" Speakers versus 12" versus 10" - some
thoughts...
Thanks, Marty. Here's my six cents. I've found my 4x10 Super to be
the most "hi-fi" of any of the amp/cab combinations I've used--- it
has the flattest, least peaky frequency response and seems to get
along with any guitar I throw at it. Another way of saying it: the
4x10 seems to have the least identifiable tone of its own--- the
least coloration. By comparison, my 15" JBL cab had some sort of
midrange peak that got annoying pretty fast, particularly awful with
my Jazzmaster. The same Jazzmaster sounded smooth and nice with the
4x10.
This makes some sense when you think about hi-fi speakers: they use
very small drivers for high frequencies, larger for midgrange, even
larger for bass, with a crossover network to divide the spectrum up
so the drivers aren't trying to reproduce frequencies they're not
good at. A large mass (big cone) just can't move fast enough to be a
good tweeter. When large speakers try to reproduce high frequencies
the response gets peaky and the dispersion gets narrower and narrower
as the frequency goes up. I hear this as a nasty little "beam of
death" right out in front of the speaker, and then a very different
sound off to the sides a bit. The bigger the speaker, the more
pronounced the effect. To my ears, the 10's suffer much less from
this.
Anyway, that's why the 4x10 Super is my bread-and-butter amp--- it
works for everything but I'll admit it definitely isn't that Dick
Dale surf sound. The alternate rig is the same old Showman but with
a 2x12 Celestion Vintage 30 cab... definitely not neutral, but a
better kind of coloration for my purposes, which I guess is more edgy
rock 'n roll than big deep classic surf.
Rob Woolsey
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