Fender Prosonic combo

[matt_good]

Hello everybody! I own a Fender Prosonic combo amp and was wondering what the best rock 4x12 cab would be? I'm not necessarily asking for a brand but technically speaking? How would 4 Greenbacks perform?

[Enzo]

Hi Matt, welcome to the forum.


That is hard to answer. What is the best food to eat? WHo is the best looking woman? WHat I like may not be what you like. All the speakers out ther have people who like them, and folks who don't like them. SOme guys like 4x12 cabs, some like 2x12, or 4x10, or 1x15. For example Peavey has the popular and cool little Classic 30 amp. a 1x12 combo. They sell the exact same amp with a 1x15 cab or a 2x10 cab, and call those the Delta Blues models. All are cool amps to me. And all sound different from one another. You are obviously aware not all 4x12s are the same. deeper or shallower, straight or slant.

The list of drivers is endless. There will be greenbacks fans, and hemptone fans, and so on.

Then ther is the whole what do you play thing. Screaming metal? Blues? Jazz? In your bedroom or on gigs? Large halls? Small clubs? Your band has reasonable stage volume? Or your drummer can be heard all the way into next week? DO you mic the cab into the PA for coverage? Or do you rely on the cab for your whole sound? DO you want the cab to project? Or do you want the sound to spread all over for coverage?

[Chuck H]

FWIW I spoke to Bruce Zinky at the 2009 Winter NAMM show about the Prosonic. He indicated that it was built with it's own speakers in mind. He didn't like it with any other speakers. His reasoning was that the specific cone weight and damping of the stock speakers seemed to be both unusuall but appropriate for that particular amp. He wasn't happy about the head version or the fact that Fender has based so many of their other amps on the Prosonic topology. That said...

When I owned a Prosonic I hated the way it sounded through it's own speakers. I ran it through a couple of different cabinets. One was a pair of 2x12 slant top cabs (basically a standard 4x12 split down the middle) loaded with, of all speakers, the venerable Celestion G12M-70's (love 'em or hate 'em as the reviews go). I thought it sounded pretty damn good. I also ran it through a standard 4x12 slant Marshall cab loaded with G12T-65's. Didn't like that as well. The G12M-70's have a pretty defined roll off on both the top and bottom. The G12T-65's are more brash in the top end and not even up to the G12M70's for bottom end. I think you see where this is going. Something like the G12M-70's (which have an unusual impedance curve) that seem damped on the top and bottom might do well. The speaker that comes to my mind is the Eminence Red White and Blues. Andy Fuch seems to like this speaker. I found it even less dynamic than the G12M-70. Which, according to some, is a detriment. A strong lower mid without too much bottom or top end seems to compliment that particular amp. I would probably go with the Celestion G12H-30 (the anniversary version with the 70Hz cone). But the Eminence Red White and Blues might also be worth a try. Being as it's hard to sell used speakers if you don't like them I would go with the Celestion first since they're more popular and it would be easier to re-sale them. It they're too brash I would try the Eminence RW&B's.

JM2C

P.S. The EV "M"s have similar properties. But who can afford a quad of them.