Friday, November 8, 2024
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Guitar Amps VS Cabs – Which Matters More?


Today we’re taking a look at the age-old question: which affects your tone more, the head or the cab?

We’ll compare three different amps, a Mesa Single Rectifier, an Orange Rocker 30, and a Marshall JCM2000 TSL60, and four cabs, a Vox 412 with Celestion Creambacks, a Mesa 412 with Celestion Vintage 30s, an Orange 412 with Vintage 30s, and a Marshall 412 with G12T-75s.

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Originally posted by UCdHWuVr4eRt2r8igfhOMtRA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UejDQUnuxJ4

25 thoughts on “Guitar Amps VS Cabs – Which Matters More?

  • 1:20 Hi! You are the second person I hear saying that the cab is what makes most pf the difference. The first was Glenn (long hair man)

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  • Great video. Much appreciated. Sure, I'd love to have a Vox, a Jazz Chorus, an Orange, and a Mesa, but like most guitarists I simply don't have the space for all of those cabs. Nor can I afford them, so I guess cabsim IRs will have to work for me.

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  • Could you make a video of what guitar cab and head is. I am trying to find examples on youtube but nothing I am so confused.

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  • I couldn't tell all that much difference between the amps but then again I damn sure ain't a pro. The cabs all clearly stood apart and it comes down to the ol' adage, name your poison…

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  • Can you get a head to strong for a cabinet? Or the other way around head mm to weak or small to power a big 4×4 stack maybe? Was looking at Boss Katanas

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  • Check out the video by Jim Lill called "Tested: where does the tone come from in a speaker cab?" Very interesting.

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  • Great video !!! Cabinets make the biggest difference in your guitar sound. Amps of coarse do too but the cabinets more…Ive been researching this topic lately because I just switched over from playing combo amps to head type amps and cabinets.

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  • Crazy question, what if…

    You put all 3 amps together in a mix, with 1 to the left, one on the right and 1 in the middle? All with the same performance

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  • 70-20-10…Cabs are 70% of your tone and overall sound, Amps are 20% of your texture for your tone/sound, and finally your guitar/strings/pickups are your last tiny finishing touches

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  • So microphones and IRs make all amps sound the same. An Orange amp sounds nothing like a Dual Rec in person out of the same cab. You have the amps right there. There's no way you couldn't tell them apart in a blindfold test.

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  • I am trying to learn about the whole amp situation, maybe someone can help me here. So these are high watt amps and cabs right? But can you still do clean tones on them? Or was it a choice of „style“ to only play distortion heavy stuff?

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