Speaker break in…. Methods?

Locrian99

Locrian99

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So I’ve got a couple speakers to replace the blown or whatever wrong with them oxfords in my bandmaster cab.

Didn’t want to break the bank so I ended up opting for a couple of the monotone (edit: phone autocorrected mojotone to monotone. Had to leave that in lol) anthems. Sweetwater doesn’t offer a break in service.

So I don’t really want to run a looper through my only four ohm head (my bassman) for endless hours.

Thought about just making a loop and running it through my me-90 and run the line out through one of those little tp3118 Amazon boards.

Anyone have a way they do it that’s different and seems to work well?
 
spi said:
You could also build a Ruby (runoffgroove.com)

I have one of these Smokey Amplifiers - Smokey Amps, which I've used to drive cabs, but also to test pedals with its built-in speaker. They're fun to play. It's similar to a ruby that's prebuilt.
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Ah yes. I think I actually have a ruby built around here somewhere if I didnt cannibalize the jacks or something from the enclosure.

More wondering I guess source I’ve heard using a pink noise generator works etc.
 
I used to use Weber speakers a bit but never had them long enough to hear a difference once they were broken in. I mainly use Celestion these days and while I can be extremely particular about aspects of my sounds I can't say I've noticed a difference with brand new speakers vs worn-in speakers. I just put a brand new G12H Creamback into an amp, then used that amp's cab to play an amp I don't have a cab for yet through it. It sounds much like it did through an older G12H Creamback. Maybe it's just that sound memory is unreliable?
 
HamishR said:
I used to use Weber speakers a bit but never had them long enough to hear a difference once they were broken in. I mainly use Celestion these days and while I can be extremely particular about aspects of my sounds I can't say I've noticed a difference with brand new speakers vs worn-in speakers. I just put a brand new G12H Creamback into an amp, then used that amp's cab to play an amp I don't have a cab for yet through it. It sounds much like it did through an older G12H Creamback. Maybe it's just that sound memory is unreliable?
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Good to know


Thanks for all the awesome advice with this. Bassman is doing awesome, looking forward to having a proper 4 ohm set up to try it on before I decide on mods.
 
Haha! Yeah, practise! I've read about that.

Don't be in any hurry to do mods. Get used to the amp first. A lot of the time amps can sound pretty darn good dead stock.

The main thing I have done with Fenders is reduce low end, which is kinda counter-intuitive for me because I love a big fat sound. A lot of Fenders don't need any low-end reduction - my recent Brown Deluxe clone is pretty much perfect bone stock, once biased properly. The 5E3 however can benefit from some reduction in lows - it has way too much for my taste

I gigged for quite a few years with a 1x12 5F4 Super combo I built. Then after playing a modded 5E3 for some time I realised that the Super could use a little trim. So I reduced the PI coupling caps from .1µF to .033µF and while being a fairly gentle mod it works better for me like that. I think it might just push some of that low end into more of a low-mid area which suits me perfectly. I might have adjusted some bypass caps too - I do tinker a bit!

Having the two channels with two-way EQ means that you can keep one channel stock and mod the other to see/hear the differences.
 
practice.

We all know how it’s done.

You build the pedal. You verify the pedal works. You play that same riff you mastered when you were 15 4–6 times to make sure it sounds right. Then you decide which pedal to build next. Who has time for practice we all have to catch up to @MichaelW build report page.
 
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