ReverendRevolver
Friend of Leo's
You're lucky.
My wife tells me to spend the money if I'm on the fence so that I "shut the hell up about guitar crap for a few days". Your way seems healthier.
Let us Know how it sounds.
Yet Another 5e3 Speaker Thread, But With a Twist (of the tone knob)
- Thread starter Lowspeid
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My wife tells me to spend the money if I'm on the fence so that I "shut the hell up about guitar crap for a few days". Your way seems healthier.
Let us Know how it sounds.
She does that from time-to-time as well, but only when I’m driving her nuts and she knows I’m desperate for “that thing”.
@68goldtop My P12Q arrived today. I put it in and from the first chord I knew it’s “the one” for this amp. I only got to play for about 10 minutes before I headed out the door to an appointment but man it sounded GOOD! Full without being boomy, chimey without being piercing, articulate but still compressing! I wish I had just bought this one from the start instead of the Weber 12a125a that everyone seems to love so much. Even my wife poked her head in and said “that sounds REALLY good. Is that the new speaker?” Yes. Yes it is.
I used to use 5e3's on stage extensively a few years ago. I imported about 6 or 7 chassis built by Jim Nickelson at Lil Dawg. I'd build a pine combo cab and run it into a locally built 12"speaker. Probably the amp I had the most fun with and I've had plenty of different amps since I began playing out in 1970. Speaker match is critical with a 5e3 and if you have a dull speaker it's a pretty lifeless game. I found the perfect 12" speaker match at a local speaker manufacturer a few miles from here called Lorantz. Tried quite a few different imported US and English speakers and never found one that suited the 5e3 better than the Lorantz 50 watt 12"guitar speaker. Plenty of speaker overhead allowed the amp to shine through rather than pushing the speaker to the point where it is [email protected] out. A fairly bright speaker is needed as the 5e3 is a dark sounding amp.
YKMV
YKMV
Me- Very much! My wife and kids- not as muchHi Lowspeid!
Very happy to hear this - hope you´re having fun
cheers - 68.
Elwood Telly
TDPRI Member
Thanks for sharing! That sounded great (both the amp and your
Hi Lowspeid!
That IS the truth
Not a bad idea at all!
I happen to own an older ´57 Deluxe RI with the stock P12Q and I quite like it!
So far I compared it to a vintage C12Q, a newer WGS G12Q and various Celestions (M, L and S models). None of those made me want to change out the P12Q
cheers - 68.I like use to both channels "jumped together" and use "Bright"-input. My Deluxe-head (clone with mod to 5D3 pre-amp by pro), with pretty (lame if you like) low gain pre-amp tubes 12AV7 ('60s RCA) and Hytron/CBS 1958 pair 6V6's, 5Y3GT or GZ34 rectifier. With 1 x Jensen C15K is still pretty loud (vol pots around 5-8 depending on situation, tone around 4-6). I mostly play with two pretty basic Tellys (without tone pots at all), but with PAF-replica-neck-humbucker in CV Custom or Cabronita-styled with pair TV Jones T90's - it's another game. Recently, I got my 2x10"-cabinet ready (originally Laney's) - with open back "F"-style cut-off and pair of WGS Veteran 10:s. Obviously, not so loud - but still with nice headroom and Veterans just love to be driven with EHX East River Drive and Soul Food - separately or "stacked" with proper settings. Only few hours "break-in" behind, they will getter better. WGS G12Q is one of my favourites too, as well Jensen Neo-Tornados (both 10" and 12"). I have plans to try out WGS G15C or Jensen Neo 15" some day.
Tony65x55
TDPRI Member
The C12Q and the P12Q are both decent speakers. The C12Q getts little love because it's only 35 watts but there is no more natural fit out there than a c12Q and a Deluxe Reverb. They are made for each other. I have 2 P12Q speakers in my Victoria Lo-Power Twin and they are very satisfactory.
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