PEAVEY 5150 COMBO - Celestion Sheffield vs Celestion Vintage 30 (vid)

[HollowmanPL]

If someone is interested - a small comparison using Ola DI's (hope it's not a problem?)

cheers,
Matt

 

[Clark Kent]

I predict people will automatically prefer the Vintage 30 version just because of prior knowledge/what they have heard.

I'm honestly using my ears and I could make both tones work. Actually I think the Sheffield version sounds more like an Andy Sneap type of tone. The Vintage 30... well I'm so bored of hearing it on every single album. I would probably use the Sheffields or this type of genre.

 

[HollowmanPL]

Exacly. It was a big surprise when I heard Sheffield for the first time. I was expecting some shitty, bright, rock tone but this speaker wasn't that bad. It's honestly quite cool.

 

[sebby123]

Wow, I really preferred the sheffield i think i might have to get one of these asap...i wonder how 1 sheffield will pair with a v30 in a mesa 2x12.
EDIT: Just noticed these are not after market speakers...does anyone know if these sell anywhere?

 

[006]

I actually prefer the Shef here, interesting. My first 5150 was the combo, miss that heavy ass thing.

 

[bryan_kilco]

Wow, maybe I'm a tard but I was totally unaware that Celestion made Sheffields......I still rock my 5150 cab with stock Sheffields......

In that clip, the V30s sound brittle and harsh.

 

[FIXXXER]

sheffield has bigger balls

 

[acalaf]

Vintage 30 all the way. BTW, sheffield is the brand, not the model. If they are the speakers that came stock in the 5150 then they are basically 75 watt greenbacks.

 

[tgs]

Any cab that has these that anyone can recommend?

 

[TravisW]

Isn't Sheffield the Peavey imprint on the speakers? I think they're manufactured by Eminence.

 

[HollowmanPL]

Any cab that has these that anyone can recommend?

I think 5150 cabs

 

[greyskull]

like the sheffield....

 

[ratsapprentice]

Obviously I'm a pretty shit "engineer" but I've got the combo and always find it hard to get rid of that "fizzyness"

 

[kev]

First time i've ever preferred the sheffield to the v30

 

[TheWinterSnow]

I've never hated the Sheffield's. In the room they sound pretty damn good (I'm thinking the time I played a JSX with the matching JSX cab). Never mic'd them, but from this clip it sound liek they can hold their own. My only complaint was that they could not handle massive amounts of low end like V30s can, but they still kickass in a bind.

From this clip I prefer the the Sheffield, but the sounds of the v30s sounds nothing like the results that I get with my V30's, which I absolutely love.

 

[greyskull]

My enduring memory of a sheffield with heavy guitar was it crapping out on the low and the first time In years i reached for the c4.... on the low mid band........ (sound familiar?) as it was literally eating the headroom, sounded good though...

 

[Melodeath]

I preferred the Sheffield, but thats also possibly because it was played first and I got used to it haha. It's a lot fizzier than the V30.

 

[Zozobra]

The sheffield sounds not entirely unlike a T75 to me. Bigger, more scooped, chunkier, pleasantly filthy in the top end, but mushier, bloatier.

I like T75s rather a bit fwiw. They pair great with V30s.

 

[lolzgreg]

I preferred the Sheffield 1200 series speaker as well.

 

[HollowmanPL]

I'm thinking about Greenbacks now...