Weshunter
February 28th, 2011, 10:17 PM
After getting some much needed advice from tunghaichuan and duhvoodooman on another thread, i've decided to sell my celestion blue and buy 2 new 12" speakers for a 2x12 cabinet. This will be paired (for now) with an Egnater Rebel 20 head, but since it would be nice if I could build a cabinet that could handle more watts just in case I need to get a louder amp down the road. my guitars are a strat with EMG single coils and a Baker Super B hollowbody w/2 humbuckers.
i play rock and roll - classic rock, jam stuff (GD, Phish, etc) - funk, country, jazz, church stuff - basically lots of different kinds of music but rarely and really hard rock or metal, and it leans heavily on the classic rock/jam stuff.
i like the celestion blue a lot, so i'm thinking of getting a 30w weber blue dog (sens=100db) which i hope will be similar to the celestion blue and pairing it with a WGS Green Beret 25w (sens=100db). this is purely based on what i've read on the internet, so if anyone has any thoughts about this combo being a bad idea, let me know.
I'm planning to wire it in parallel which i think will result in a 4 ohm load. I'm hoping that down the road if I want, I can build another one of these and chain them together (which I think will create an 8 ohm load and be basically the same as a 4x12 cabinet, right?)
I'm definitely not married to these speaker choices. If there was a way to get something cheaper than the blue dog that sounds as good or close to it, I (and my wife) would be all about that. My thinking is that the blue clone will accentuate the highs and mids and the greenback clone will carry the bottom end, but again, i'm just sort of putting that together from what i've read on message boards and stuff.
any opinions? thoughts? am i on the right track?
i play rock and roll - classic rock, jam stuff (GD, Phish, etc) - funk, country, jazz, church stuff - basically lots of different kinds of music but rarely and really hard rock or metal, and it leans heavily on the classic rock/jam stuff.
i like the celestion blue a lot, so i'm thinking of getting a 30w weber blue dog (sens=100db) which i hope will be similar to the celestion blue and pairing it with a WGS Green Beret 25w (sens=100db). this is purely based on what i've read on the internet, so if anyone has any thoughts about this combo being a bad idea, let me know.
I'm planning to wire it in parallel which i think will result in a 4 ohm load. I'm hoping that down the road if I want, I can build another one of these and chain them together (which I think will create an 8 ohm load and be basically the same as a 4x12 cabinet, right?)
I'm definitely not married to these speaker choices. If there was a way to get something cheaper than the blue dog that sounds as good or close to it, I (and my wife) would be all about that. My thinking is that the blue clone will accentuate the highs and mids and the greenback clone will carry the bottom end, but again, i'm just sort of putting that together from what i've read on message boards and stuff.
any opinions? thoughts? am i on the right track?