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
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)
No doubt, it must be Mesa.
You don't see any cab in this video
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.
No clean sound? Man, you had one job
off topic, that room is beautiful
The speaker is the biggest factor in what makes a tone because it’s a filter.
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.
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…
Was saving money for amp now for a cab
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
You get a good cab with a decent head and you are golden
Check out the video by Jim Lill called "Tested: where does the tone come from in a speaker cab?" Very interesting.
Huh, Vox cab was best solo but Marshall was best in the mix…
Weird.
At first I thought I was going to like the Vox cab the most, and then I heard the Marshall Cab, and IMMEDIATELY I knew it won, hands down
are cabs and enclosures the same?
Amazing video and so well done! Thank you
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.
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
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
What the heck is a cab?
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.
very informative and must have taken some effort – thanks man! ????
the bass in the mix is so weird
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?