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I recently saw an Eminence Beta 8 speaker in my local Maplin, so I bought it to see what it would sound like on guitar. Eminence market it as a PA speaker, but after reading a recent thread on EVs, I thought I might like PA speakers.
Sure enough, it has plenty of upper mids and treble, but they seem to be smooth and clear rather than peaky and honky. It made some very nice clean sounds with single coil pickups, and the high end gave a pretty vicious grind to distorted tones.
The one thing I noticed was that it tended to emphasize string noise and squeaks especially when playing with high gain. But I just had it sitting on the floor. Hopefully when I put it in a cabinet, it'll bring the bass and lower mids up to counterbalance that. It sounded good enough that I fancy getting another one and making a 2x8" cab, especially since they only come in 8 ohms and my amps only has 16.
When I went back to my usual 2x12" it sounded so dull and honky in comparison. I usually end up using the EQ to scoop out a big notch around 400-600Hz, but the 8" didn't need that.
Anyone else try odd sizes and types of speakers for guitar?
Sure enough, it has plenty of upper mids and treble, but they seem to be smooth and clear rather than peaky and honky. It made some very nice clean sounds with single coil pickups, and the high end gave a pretty vicious grind to distorted tones.
The one thing I noticed was that it tended to emphasize string noise and squeaks especially when playing with high gain. But I just had it sitting on the floor. Hopefully when I put it in a cabinet, it'll bring the bass and lower mids up to counterbalance that. It sounded good enough that I fancy getting another one and making a 2x8" cab, especially since they only come in 8 ohms and my amps only has 16.
When I went back to my usual 2x12" it sounded so dull and honky in comparison. I usually end up using the EQ to scoop out a big notch around 400-600Hz, but the 8" didn't need that.
Anyone else try odd sizes and types of speakers for guitar?
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