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Author:  metalfanat1c [ Fri Dec 17, 2010 10:57 am ]
Post subject:  Ordered a pair of Texas Heats this morning.
To replace the speakers in my Genz Benz cab. Need moar bite.
Author:  Devtron [ Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Ordered a pair of Texas Heats this morning.
You should have gone with the Miami Heats.


No way they can lose.
Author:  Zozobra [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:51 am ]
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I do want to try some emi's, specifically the swamp thang. I dont think they'd sit well in a mix with my T100s though as they're 5db more efficient :panic:
Author:  metalfanat1c [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:57 am ]
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My Twin is loaded with Swamp Thangs... they're a good bit brighter than Texas Heats. Which is to say, they're still darker than any Celestion that I know of... except maybe T75s, but Swamp Thangs have much more midrange content than a T75.

I got Texas Heats because they're not as dark as the Genz Benz speakers in my G-flex 2x12, and because they have the tightest low end of any guitar speaker I've found, except for EVM-12Ls... I would've got EVs, but I'd like to still be able to carry the fucker by myself. :lol:
Author:  Snaxocaster [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:26 pm ]
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It's funny how different people perceive different speakers as "dark" or "bright". I'd never call a 75 "dark". Bassy, yes, but not "dark". At the same time, I think V30s are dark and midrangey. That big midrange spike they have that registers to a lot of people as bright and harsh is just... mids to my ears. I don't hear V30s as having a ton of top end at all.
Author:  knope [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 6:07 pm ]
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Snaxocaster wrote:
It's funny how different people perceive different speakers as "dark" or "bright". I'd never call a 75 "dark". Bassy, yes, but not "dark". At the same time, I think V30s are dark and midrangey. That big midrange spike they have that registers to a lot of people as bright and harsh is just... mids to my ears. I don't hear V30s as having a ton of top end at all.


this... choosing speakers is confusing :cry: :poop:
Author:  Devtron [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 6:37 pm ]
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I hated speaker shopping.

I'll have to do it again soon, and I am not looking forward to it.
Author:  Snaxocaster [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:34 pm ]
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knope wrote:
Snaxocaster wrote:
It's funny how different people perceive different speakers as "dark" or "bright". I'd never call a 75 "dark". Bassy, yes, but not "dark". At the same time, I think V30s are dark and midrangey. That big midrange spike they have that registers to a lot of people as bright and harsh is just... mids to my ears. I don't hear V30s as having a ton of top end at all.


this... choosing speakers is confusing :cry: :poop:


Just play through PA cabs and be done with it. :red:
Author:  Devtron [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:44 pm ]
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Snaxocaster wrote:
knope wrote:
Snaxocaster wrote:
It's funny how different people perceive different speakers as "dark" or "bright". I'd never call a 75 "dark". Bassy, yes, but not "dark". At the same time, I think V30s are dark and midrangey. That big midrange spike they have that registers to a lot of people as bright and harsh is just... mids to my ears. I don't hear V30s as having a ton of top end at all.


this... choosing speakers is confusing :cry: :poop:


Just play through PA cabs and be done with it. :red:



Been there, done that.
Author:  Snaxocaster [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:50 pm ]
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Tyrannosaurus Reich wrote:
Been there, done that.


It's pretty awful. :red:

Play through everything you can with a sitar and map of known qualities. That's really the best way, unfortunately.
Author:  Devtron [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:09 pm ]
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Snaxocaster wrote:
Tyrannosaurus Reich wrote:
Been there, done that.


It's pretty awful. :red:

Play through everything you can with a sitar and map of known qualities. That's really the best way, unfortunately.



I wish I could.


The local shops suck, and don't really carry a variety of gear. Most of the amps are new Fender Combos, new Vox Combos or the new Marshall combos.

If they have a cabinet, it usually has stock speakers from the factory (Eminence/Celestion designed), and not anything that I would be buying on the speaker market.

On the off chance they have a cabinet with non-factory speakers, they are usually V30s.





Thankfully, I like my WGS Retro 60/WGS BL80 combo.
Author:  Snaxocaster [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:11 pm ]
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Yikes. Not even a 1960 with 75s or a used Marshall with Greenies or used Mesa with C90s which are really CL80s? :(
Author:  Devtron [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:15 pm ]
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Snaxocaster wrote:
Yikes. Not even a 1960 with 75s or a used Marshall with Greenies or used Mesa with C90s which are really CL80s? :(



I have only seen one used Marshall JCM 2000/1960a in the shop. I am sure they get more, but it probably exits quickly. Premium gear is difficult to come by.

I have only ever seen two Mesas, both Dual Recs, both through Traynor 4x12s. Actually, they have one of the two now, and I think it is the same Traynor cab, and someone just bought the head last time.

A pawn shop near me has a 1960a with greenies I am looking at. But no amps to play it through :cry:
Author:  Snaxocaster [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Ordered a pair of Texas Heats this morning.
Ouch. That's really ungood. 1960s with 75s are the plainest-Jane "decent" stock cab there is. I shudder to think what you're subjected to. I thought Buffalo was a gear wasteland, with most- the vast majority of- peeps around here playing through random cheapshit (I see lots of cheap 1x12 SS combos onstage around here) and the ones who have jobs with a Marshall/5150/Rec or a Fender if they're not in a metal/punk/hardcore band. There's a handful of geeks who will show up with a rack or niceynice shit, but they're thin on the ground.

It's kinda funny as I've seen a bunch of goodies in stores around here, and on a fairly regular basis- and there's a big boutique shop not too far out of the city- but it almost never makes it onto a stage. Not any stage I've seen here. Maybe I need to find lawyer-blues venues in the 'burbs? :lol:
Author:  Snaxocaster [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:30 pm ]
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Also: bring your own map to the pawnshop and play through the Greenies. You have yer bAssman, right? That would probably rawk pretty hard through 'em.
Author:  torgeot [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:52 pm ]
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Did you get that bAssman back yet?

(I had to borrow your cap A there Snaxie, tis wonderful)
Author:  Devtron [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:47 pm ]
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Teh bAssman is still with Zach.

I guess he is working on it.
Author:  chris_d [ Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:49 pm ]
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Jesusfuckingchrist.
Author:  knope [ Tue Dec 21, 2010 12:34 am ]
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pretty ridiculous to say the least... makes me wonder who will have a NAD first :cop:
Author:  Broseidon [ Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:16 am ]
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chris_d wrote:
Jesusfuckingchrist.


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