New speaker day! Celestion G10 Greenback
A while ago I'd got an Eminence "Raging Cajun" 10" speaker to replace the stock speaker in my Vox AD30VT (early-gen modeling amp), now I've got the G10 to swap in and out to give a different flavor of things. To make a somewhat fair comparison, I re-tracked the rhythm guitars from a tune I did in the One-Condensor Mic recording challenge a couple years ago (
viewtopic.php?p=74249#p74249).
First, the raw sound of the Raging Cajun vs. the G10:
rc_raw.mp3
g10_raw.mp3
Comparing the speakers... To me, the Eminence speaker sounds crispier, while the Celestion has more grind.
Back then for the recording challenge I used much different mic and mixing techniques, not to mention a much different set-up to make the sounds at the source. For the challenge I was obviously using only a single condensor mic. I'd used a cleaner amp model setting (AC15) but with distortion pedals to produce the source sound.
hiitdm_oldGtrs.mp3
This time around I used a different amp model ("80's British") and no pedals, getting distortion only from the amp (model) itself. Also, this time around I double-mic'd the amp, going with a dynamic mic dead-center on the speaker and a condensor partway across the speaker cone, and have a 50/50 mix of those two signals.
hiitdm_newGtrs.mp3
Guitars were double-tracked for both the old and new mixes, then panned to one side or the other. The "new guitars" mix has both the Eminence and the Celestion speakers, whereas the old takes would have been with only the Eminence speaker.
hiitdm_oldMix.mp3
hiitdm_newMix.mp3
Other than dropping in the new guitar tracks (and muting the old ones), I didn't change anything else about the mix itself. The new guitars are on a bus and I did a bit of EQ on that bus to trim out some lows, but the drums/bass/master-bus-fx are all the same as the old mix.
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