New Cab Day (CLIPS+PIX) Ola, come inside!
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It's a Splawn 4x12 I just loaded with Greenbacks. I've had it for a while, but I hated the stock speakers, so I loaded it with the Greenies. I'm very happy with the results 
Mic is an Audio Technica AE2500.
That's my cab isolation booth. I have a framed piece of Roxul on the floor, a piece of MDF on top of that, and an Auralex Great Gramma on top of that. The back wall has two huge packages of Roxul that are unopened; there is a panel on the right you see (blue) that is a baffle filled with Roxul, and behind it is another unopened Roxul bundle. Surrounding the whole metal frame are more framed baffles of Roxul, and I have a portable baffle filled with Roxul that closes up the cave.
No reflections in there. My room I'm using wouldn't benefit from them, but when I eventually move to somewhere bigger, that may change
Digging the tone so far? I
Mic is an Audio Technica AE2500.
That's my cab isolation booth. I have a framed piece of Roxul on the floor, a piece of MDF on top of that, and an Auralex Great Gramma on top of that. The back wall has two huge packages of Roxul that are unopened; there is a panel on the right you see (blue) that is a baffle filled with Roxul, and behind it is another unopened Roxul bundle. Surrounding the whole metal frame are more framed baffles of Roxul, and I have a portable baffle filled with Roxul that closes up the cave.
No reflections in there. My room I'm using wouldn't benefit from them, but when I eventually move to somewhere bigger, that may change
Digging the tone so far? I
Nice! I wonder if this is why my miced cab tones always suck ass. I just stick the cab in the room and go to town. Maybe some OC703 panels around it...
how much was that roxul?
It's hard for me to judge guitar tones when they are by themselves but that clip has some real nice beef!!!
how much was that roxul?
It's hard for me to judge guitar tones when they are by themselves but that clip has some real nice beef!!!
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I sounds very promising man.
I would like to hear the same clip with more gain e more bass...it should be awesome
I would like to hear the same clip with more gain e more bass...it should be awesome
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I like it.
I'm still learning to use Greenback's myself.
I haven't really found a "modern" high gain tone that blew my away under the mic yet except maybe with my apex 250 ribbon mic. That's the combination I ended up using for the guitar tone contest.
57's tend to sound a bit too aggressive on them, don't you think?
On crunchy rock tones they are bonerrific though.
I'm still learning to use Greenback's myself.
I haven't really found a "modern" high gain tone that blew my away under the mic yet except maybe with my apex 250 ribbon mic. That's the combination I ended up using for the guitar tone contest.
57's tend to sound a bit too aggressive on them, don't you think?
On crunchy rock tones they are bonerrific though.
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Awesome town!!! I'm really started to get kinda burnt out of the mesa v30 cabs. I feel like it adds unnecessary treble and does not have a characteristic sound like the greenbacks and the g75's do.
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I don't think they suck because of the lack of Roxul, although it makes a significant difference in rooms with bad standing waves. I had a discussion with Sneap, and he said the most important thing is knowing what you want, and then you try to capture it with a microphone or two
The Roxul was roughly $600 for the whole setup you see; it isn't cheap, but this is the 4.0 PCF Safe N' Sound which has superior absorptive qualities, and is NEARLY linear throughout the entire spectrum down to around 40hz (ish) with a bit more in the highs.
Thanks for the kind words.
Cheers dude.
I feel like a grindy bass tone would be the perfect compliment, and take care of any of those minor shortcomings.
I actually don't like the 57 much anymore unless it is as a blending microphone. It has a hole in the high mids that is essential to the modern high gain guitar tone in many cases. Obviously, to each their own, but I've been digging a Cascade Fathead II with the Lundhal Transformer/Shure SM57 blend, the AT AE2500, or one of the several condensers I have as of late.
Cheers
The Mesa V30 cabs definitely have a fizzier and slightly more hollow tone than other V30 loaded cabinets due to alternative speaker design. In this thread, I compared two different V30s, and a V30esque speaker.
Most people favored the Chinese V30; I know I favor the Chinese Greenbacks
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