Good morning! Just joined up here after reading some stellar advice for other folks, so I figure I would pose my question, as well.
Recently, I have acquired an inexpensive 4x12" cabinet. It's a Crate GX412R if I remember it right - straight-front, Eminence speakers (an OEM model I can find the part number for at home), 16Ohm, 50W each, and a stereo/mono switch on the cabinet. I got it for almost nothing, and the switching feature seemed kinda neat.
I run a Mesa Nomad 55 into it. It's an oddball amp, and really does tend towards the treble-y side of things, especially with the Emis that seem to have a really shrill voicing to them. I've run the Nomad into my two Ibanez TSA112 enclosures (Celestion Seventy-80s in those), and it sounded much better than the Crate enclosure, simply due to the more expansive bottom end that the speakers have.
Now, the Nomad is a notoriously difficult to EQ/set up amplifier. I've found a lot of settings where it sounds great, but they're pretty narrow band. What I'd really like to do is expand the amp's voice with a good pairing of speakers in the Crate.
I'm looking to tame the highs of the Nomad just a tiny bit (and eliminate the shrillness that the Crate's OEM speakers introduce), bring up a lot more bottom end on the clean channel, and keep the scathing mid-range gain barrage that the Nomad is really exemplary at.
So, just going by the clips here on the WGS site, I'm about 90% committed to two Green Berets in the big box. I just adore the mid-range/mid-high sound that these make, so I think I may be set on those, unless the Experts have an even better idea. I've also really loved the sound that the Nomad's clean channel makes through the Eminence Texas Heat - my buddy's Traynor has one, and we plugged it in, and it just worked. What's the nearest analouge that WGS would have to the clean, bottom-heavy tone of this speaker?
Sorry for the novel, but I'm pretty excited to finally be throwing together a cabinet specialized how I want, and don't want to screw it up too bad! Thanks!
Any ideas? What's the closest WGS has to something with a lot of low-end response and no mid-high spike, similar to a Texas Heat?
Okay, sure ... you can pretty much never go wrong with the vintage GB tone in a 4x12 ... so I'd put the two of them on top of the 4x12. Below them I would put a pair of the warm & balanced Reapers ... this combo will certainly tame the shrillness you mentioned, plus be a broad sonic pallet for the Nomad's quirks.
I have just pulled the trigger on two Green Berets and two Reapers. I'm really looking forward to it! These OEM Crate things are just killing me!
I hear ya brother
Wow, I can't really tell this is the same cab. With my Reverend Manta Ray 290, this cab has just kinda come alive.
Thanks for the recommendations! I'd throw some A/B tests out there, but I need a microphone. That should be coming in soon, too!
Can't wait to hear this with my buddy's Decatone. It is going to be killer!