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| akis:
I have thought about muting the speaker. I thought that the enclosed air inside the sealed box will affect the cone travel and general feedback behaviour compared to open air? Also some cabs are quite large, you'd need a very large box to house them in and not very practical, compared to small a settop box, like the Mesa Cabclone (which I do not like BTW). I had thought to take a speaker, cut out most of the paper cone, leave a few bands/stripes to keep it suspended from the outer rim, it will also give us some form of silent speaker emulation and present a very similar load to the amp? We could tape over the remaining stripes to stiffen it and account for the difference in feedback to the coil from the whole cone in air. Of course it means destroying the speaker, but at £80-100 is a great deal cheaper than other solutions. Another very important factor is the actual speaker which gives a very characteristic sound, not overdriven but just by its nature, for example there is a world of difference between the Tonkers, the Stonehenge and the Jensens we have tried here. The Stonehenge in particular really stands out it is so different. |
| Teledog:
A few attenuators here (excuse the 3rd party links); https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/speaker-soak.1418300/ |
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