Can any of you tell what kind of speakers I have in a cabinet by looks?

Ugh......

so what about my idea of only trying one speaker with the head?

And yeah, the amp can choose different ohm settings and it's on 8ohms right now.

Well at least that explains why I can't get a good sound. Maybe the head has potential.....

 

I might actually be able to just reroute the exisitng wires. I'll have to have a better look but it's defnitely not wired the way that drawing is. I can tell just from the picture.

 

Now my vox isn't working. I used the headphones last night and it won't click back over. Cutting in and out. Grrrrrrrr...... It's annoying. I'm gonna try some contact cleaner first but if that doesn't work I gotta find a replacement rather quickly. I have about 300 bucks.... I think. I gotta check again. I don't really want to spend it all on myself with Christmas coming up though. Ugh.

If I felt like I could love my Rumble 40 for guitar I would just use that. But there's something about it that I'm not sure if it's good to go. I do want to see how it sounds in a mix though.

I wish the Rumble had a speaker out line so I could try a guitar speaker hooked up to it. Actually the other night I had my vox going into the rumble and both were on and it had a cool sound.

 

Now my vox is working fine. Note to self, don't use the headphone jack if you want it to be consistent. LOL.

It seems fine now but it was all goofed up last night after unplugging the headphones. I am getting some electrical contact cleaner and gonna use it on the connections.

Now... I ran both the Laney Head and my Vox through just one speaker. And I will say the head sounded better. It's still not exactly what I would call "good". I think the clean still sounds a bit thin and dead. The distortion was a bit more alive but pretty noisy if you went high gain with it and it didn't sound that good lower gain. But it sounds better than before with the cabinet wired wrong.

Now, comparing the stock 8" bulldog to 1 of the eminence 12" I'd say the 8" is much brighter. And the 12" more lower end and a bit more muddy. But that was all knobs being the same. I seemed to be able to EQ the 12"er to a very nice tone. I think I like how they sound. What was really good was the 2 of them together. Which would work for live or if you were gonna put a mic further out. I typically don't do that but I could try that.

So.... I'm still unsure as to where to go. Wire it all back up to 4? Separate them out. I don't really need a 4x12 cabinet for guitar. But maybe 2 of them on would be good. Is the wiring for 2 of them the same as the 4? I have enough wires to do 2 speakers but there were not enough in there to wire it properly. So I need to get more. LOL. I'm not sure how they had it wired. It feels like they were just haphazardly wiring them. Well maybe not but it was not done like picture above for sure.

 

Well on the back of my cambridge it has a speaker cabinet out labeled 8ohm and a "line out" jack. If I use the line out it plays the speaker in the vox amp AND also the cabinet. I'm guessing if I have two speakers hooked up it would not be good to use that one... I'm not even sure if I should be doing that with just the 1x12 speaker. ???

I could just get more wires with connectors and properly wire the 4 back up to 8 ohm capacity, eh? Then I wouldn't have to deal with losing half the power. Although this thing is really loud IMHO. I mean... when I get it up to half I'm feeling like it's way too loud for what I need it for. Although I've only been recording with it. It was a bit quiet for playing with my drummer when he came over one time. But that was just with the 8" speaker in use. But I also didn't have it cranked all the way. The 4 12" speakers definitely fills up the room more, lol.

When you buy a 2x12 amp typically what ohm are they set at?


I guess I kind of want to see what 2x12 sounds like but in the end I should probably just wire it up all 4 and keep it that way. The only other thing is that when we do play live I could build a cabinet with 2 of the speakers for vocals.... And then leave 2 in there for guitar.

Options options.

Does anyone have a proper wiring schematic for 2? So I can use a speaker cabinet 16ohms with my Cambridge but not 4, eh? There's no way to choose a different ohm setting on the Vox....

 

the wires were going everywhere. It looked like someone just threw them on they way they thought best.... I should've taken a better picture. I'm not sure if I'm using the multimeter right but I get 8.5-9 when it's just one speaker... It's hard to get to stop rifling through a bunch of numbers up and down but when I can get it to settle, that's what it settles on.

 

So I got a response back from eminence today. It totally cracks me up. Here it is:

Hello J.J.,


To begin, Eminence Speaker has never sold to Laney, so the original speakers must have been swapped for Eminence.


These speakers were made for Aspen & Associates as an OEM speaker. We currently use the cone in that speaker in just this one OEM speaker, so finding a lineup equivalent, if interested, would take some description of desired tone and function.


If we can help further let us know.


Caleb M. Potts.

I mean, I looked up this Aspen and Associates and more than one business comes up but one of them is a voice over company.... So I'm thinking that's who they made those for.... I'm like waaaaaa? Probably not anything to do with guitars....

https://lastudios.info/?page_id=2&cn-entry-slug=aspen-associates-llc&cn-view=detail

I used one of the speakers as my vox as a head to record two guitar lines in the current song I'm working on. They have a bit of a subdued sound and more low end than the 8" Celestion in my amp. So I aimed the mic at the middle and it came across as more high end and not real bassy. Which I don't really like but it's a second guitar. And actually it kind of cut through the mix so it might have been OK.

Either way I don't think they're meant to be guitar speakers and they're definitely not original to the cabinet. LOL.

I should try my voice through the amp and these speakers.

 

Thank you! I appreciate the link. I will have a think on it. I'm not sure what to do. I am going to keep playing with them to see if I get tones I like. I think I kind of like what I'm hearing with it cuz it leans more towards warm than bright. But then again so does my bass amp. LOL.