Amp Grill Cloth Removal?

[joelgtrnut]

Anyone ever do this? How does it change the tone? Any advantages or disadvantages to this? I'm thinking about doing this to my Mesa Recto cab.

 

[professorlamp]

there's a thread lurking somewhere around , some guy did it to his mesa cab

 

[~BURNY~]

Yep, I am the guy who did that. Tone-wise, there's a subtle difference with the amount of high frequencies. Nothing to write home about.
Pros:
You can see the speaker which comes handy when mic'ing
You can place your mic further inside if needed
Cons:
It looks like shit
Don't bring it on stage

 

[onqel]

Yep, I am the guy who did that. Tone-wise, there's a subtle difference with the amount of high frequencies. Nothing to write home about.
Pros:
You can see the speaker which comes handy when mic'ing
You can place your mic further inside if needed
Cons:
It looks like shit
Don't bring it on stage

Are the impulses you released recently unclothed?

 

[~BURNY~]

Are the impulses you released recently unclothed?

Yup.

 

[onqel]

Thanks for making them, I actually used one of them for my contribution to the tone competition

 

[~BURNY~]

Thanks for making them, I actually used one of them for my contribution to the tone competition

Glad you found them somewhat useful. I'm not sure I like them a lot but I had interesting results blending them other impulses.

 

[onqel]

I ended up blending it with others as well, but yours was most dominant in that blend. it turned out pretty good imo..

 

[kev]

Michael Wagener takes the cloth off of all his cabs as they suck his tone.

 

[MetalJonesy]

I'm planning on removing the cloth off my marshall 4x12. However id make a sub frame with felcro for live use to keep its appearance and protection

 

[Ben Johnson]

Michael Wagener takes the cloth off of all his cabs as they suck his tone.

I thought he did it to see where he's putting the mic more easily.

 

[MetalJonesy]

I thought he did it to see where he's putting the mic more easily.

yeah that too, but he mentioned it took off some of the top end that he didn't like, there was a link to a few vids posted in a thread on here where he does a tour of his studio

 

[006]

Well, you gotta take into consideration the man uses damn near nothing but Royers for guitars too haha.

 

[Ben Johnson]

lol

 

[Lasse Lammert]

Michael Wagener takes the cloth off of all his cabs as they suck his tone.

I thought in that video he said he took it off those old marshall cabs cause it sucked high end, not off ALL cabs though

 

[53Crëw]

In my experience, the dense cloth on the old Marshall's (Salt and Pepper for example) is very hard to see through for mic placement, and can also muffle the high frequencies. Most modern grill cloth is fairly transparent, however, in terms of being able to see through it, and not having such a negative impact on the high frequencies. I personally do not see any benefit in removing the grill cloth on a Mesa cab and you lose that extra layer of speaker protection. (Knocked over mic stand rips speaker cone instead of grill cloth.) Plus I think cabs look ugly without grill cloth.

I have removed salt and pepper grill cloth from a cab in the past, but I replaced it with the modern Marshall grill cloth to keep the speaker protection.

Just my 2 cents...

 

[kev]

I thought in that video he said he took it off those old marshall cabs cause it sucked high end, not off ALL cabs though

Yup, my comment was kind of "off the cuff" - here you go guys (and yes its wide, but what the hell- plenty to be learnt from a big picture eh ):