5e3 Speaker Suggestion

Travis

Travis

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Hi!! I build my first amp (.5e3) with SoZo and with the 3 way negative feedback mod, I LOVE the amp it´s very musical.

I wanna use it with a Blue or Cream anilco speaker, I try it with the torpedo captor and I think I like the Anilco Cream but I´m not sure about bass response with this speaker.


It´s a good idea using the Anilco Cream with this amp?

Thanks you all !!!!
 
I cannot say anything about alnico cream speaker but for my 5e3 I used a George Alessandro speaker and it sounds perfect. They make a ceramic and alnico version and mine is the ceramic, sounds out of this world.
 
jjjimi84 said:
I cannot say anything about alnico cream speaker but for my 5e3 I used a George Alessandro speaker and it sounds perfect. They make a ceramic and alnico version and mine is the ceramic, sounds out of this world.
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Thanks I will take a look.

My fear about the cream is the bass response, maybe too much compare with blue.
 
Big Monk said:
When you say:


what are you concerned with specifically? Flabby/Flubby tones? That could have more to do with the 5E3 itself.
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Yes, with blue Bass response is perfect, but to much sparkle trebble

With cream Bass is flabby/flubby but treble is perfect
 
thewintersoldier said:
Guitar is going to play a role. Humbuckers while bring the mud in a tweed deluxe especially with alnico. If your playing with a klon and a treble booster into a tweed, a greenback or 12h30 will sound killer, plus you will have a little roome headroom before the speaker compresses. If I was just using a strat/tele with no pedals into a deluxe I might go alnico, but anything else I would want ceramic.
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I always play tele or sg, I try g12h30 in torpedo captor and it´s sound just amazing.

Thanks you :)
 
I like the Blue but LOVE the Gold in a 5E3. As for Creambacks I like the G12H75. I always seem to prefer the H over the M. H = heavy magnet, so better bass response. The G12H Anniversary is a good one too in a 5E3. But the Gold is my fave.

Sozo blues are a great choice. I also like to use a choke rather than the 5K resistor between the first two filter caps. And my favourite "mod" for a 5E3 is to use a bigger PT. I like the Mercury Magnetics Fat Stack 5E3 PT, as it fixes the farty low end for the most part and makes the amp so much more usable IMO. Everyone I know who has tried one loves it. And with the better low end response comes, well, more bass! That's because the 5E3 uses unusually large coupling caps throughout. You don't notice it so much in a stock 5E3 because the bass makes everything else so saturated as the amp overdrives. As soon as you make the circuit more efficient you notice the extra low end. So I'll often use (from input to PI) .022, .022, .022, .033, .033 for the coupling caps. You end up with a beautifully chimey, complex tone which loves pedals in front of it. And if you take the time to bias it properly you get a surprising amount of headroom.
 
HamishR said:
I like the Blue but LOVE the Gold in a 5E3. As for Creambacks I like the G12H75. I always seem to prefer the H over the M. H = heavy magnet, so better bass response. The G12H Anniversary is a good one too in a 5E3. But the Gold is my fave.

Sozo blues are a great choice. I also like to use a choke rather than the 5K resistor between the first two filter caps. And my favourite "mod" for a 5E3 is to use a bigger PT. I like the Mercury Magnetics Fat Stack 5E3 PT, as it fixes the farty low end for the most part and makes the amp so much more usable IMO. Everyone I know who has tried one loves it. And with the better low end response comes, well, more bass! That's because the 5E3 uses unusually large coupling caps throughout. You don't notice it so much in a stock 5E3 because the bass makes everything else so saturated as the amp overdrives. As soon as you make the circuit more efficient you notice the extra low end. So I'll often use (from input to PI) .022, .022, .022, .033, .033 for the coupling caps. You end up with a beautifully chimey, complex tone which loves pedals in front of it. And if you take the time to bias it properly you get a surprising amount of headroom.
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Could I use one switch to changue 0.1 of Bright Channel with an 0.022?

I wanna have stock and less flabby options
 
You can do what you want! Splitting the cathodes is really easy and will make quite a difference. All you do is remove the jumper between pins 3 and 8 on V1, connect pin 3 to the 25µF cap but bypass it with a 1K5 resistor rather than the 820R, and then use whatever values you want for pin 8, the cathode of the bright channel. I've used a .68 cap with a 2K7 resistor there mimicking a Marshall Superlead and it works really well.

You can switch the coupling cap for the bright channel to .022 but it might not achieve enough on its own. Try swapping out the caps and see what works for you. It's easy and satisfying once you get where you want to be.
 
Do it! :-) And if you don't get enough bass reduction try smaller PI caps. This is the real beauty of building your own - you can really tweak to suit your own circumstances.
 
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