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Post subject: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 6:37 pm
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After installing the Eminence Cannabis Rex speaker in my Hot Rod Deluxe, I was not sure how much I would like it. It did nice things for my tone right away, but the more I use it the better it sounds. At first the bass notes were a little flubby, but it seems to be tightening up a bunch over time. Maybe i am just getting used to the tone but I sure like it whatever the reason is.

It is the sound I have been looking for, for many many years, and many many amp/speaker combinations.

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 6:44 pm
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The Eminence CR has always been one of their better designs. I'm not surprised to hear that it's "growing" on you.

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:33 pm
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I have to agree. My HRD came with the Crex. I am away from it for five more months. I miss the the warmth and articulation I have dialed in with my amp. Tubed up to personal sonic sweetness. :D

The HRD and Crex is a combo with a great personality, IMO. It is a serious working amp as well. Knowing this amp will allow you to use it in almost any situation.

If you have to go modern fender, it's a good way to go.

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 11:12 pm
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Upgrading an amp's OEM speakers is often akin to replacing an already fine-handling automobile's tires with a better set of rubber. Improved overall performance is the usual result in both instances.

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 4:40 am
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Ditto with the CR in my SS22. Altho I will say, the OEM Lightning Bolt was no slouch. It's the best Fender OEM speaker/amp match I have heard from a new Fender.


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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 9:59 am
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First I tried one of my EVM 12 L's in the HRD. It was nice and fat but it rattled the tubes like crazy, so I put the stock speaker back in. Then I bought an Eminence Tonespotter speaker for the HRD and used that for years. One day I just decided to try the Cannabis Rex to see if it improved over the Tonespotter. And what a difference. The C-Rex is a bunch darker and mitigates the Fender Twang a bit but it sure makes up for that in sweetness and round big fat tone. If I want the twang I can always hook one of my 2 EVM12L's in 1-12 cabs up to it to run alongside the C-Rex. I have not tried that yet but I can any day I please..... In the mean time I am trying to sell the EVM12L's without the cabs so I can put C-Rex's in the cabs........

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:07 am
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I live in an upscale RV Park resort in Arizona. All the lots are deeded to the owners, it is a gated retirement community with 24 hour security. Most of the lot owners are snow birds so I can't really turn the HRD/C-Rex up when the snow birds are here, to see how it sings when pushing lots of air. I finally had a chance to do that after mid May. And boy oh boy did that tone floor me. Even the clean only tone was awesome. Very articulate note definition but it seems to break up nicely with just the addition of power. 2 of them in extension cabs will be killer I think.....

It sure rattled the walls of my Park Model (tiny 400 sq ft mobile home) with the clean channel volume on 5 with the guitar turned up. Two of those speakers separated from the tubes by a few feet should be absolutely killer......

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:38 am
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We get our share of snowbirds down here in Cochise County too, DBM. Most of them take up residence at one of the many RV parks in town. They spend a lot of money here but I just wish they knew how to drive -- most of them insist on being "left-lane bandits", especially on I-10.

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 3:33 pm
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Retroverbial? Another AZ desert dweller????? I came down to Tombstone one day five or so years back and parked and walked around the old style part of town. The whole area looked real nice to me. Anyways I stayed for the gun fight at the OK Corral show in the Tombstone old town environment. It was a fun show and free to the tourists.

We even went down as far as Bisbee. Bisbee looked like a refuge for the old hippies. At least the parts we walked around. I got the impression there was a booming bit of hippy supply biz going on in and through there. Since I was in the biz myself years ago, I could gather the same "air" from experience. I did not linger in those parts of town. Although I got the impression I could play out down there and it would be received well.

Conversely I live on the NW corner of the Phoenix Metroplex in the town of Surprise. West of us about 2 miles is the open desert with only a sprinkle of little towns until you hit the Palm Springs California area. I hike the White Tank Mountain Regional Park every Sunday October to early May just to get in touch with nature, summers are way to hot to hike for a transplanted Yankee like me.

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 4:01 pm
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I know where Surprise is -- I traded a fellow from there out of his '64 Vibroverb about three years ago. The exchange was consummated at the Tempe Guitar Show, within eyeshot of the Fender booth.

Your take of Tombstone and Bisbee is 100% correct. I've played all the major venues in both those towns many times. Bisbee hosts an annual bluesfest each September -- quite a few A-list acts have headlined there over the years.

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 8:17 pm
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As I was walking around Bisbee I could see some of the locals looking at me with that "I wonder if he is an undercover gendarme or what look". I know this because I used to have to look at folks like that myself, and the air of it was very familiar. Back in those days I had long hair, and all that went along with that. I was one of those freaks in the audience at the original Woodstock event back east.

Before I moved to Az I lost much of my hair and me as a balding old age hippy is a goony looking hippy (my $.02 anyways). So I cleaned up my act, and moved west. Best thing I ever did. The west (most all of it) suits my taste much better than the Northeast which is where I came from.

Wish I could find a bunch of folks to play out with. I have tried Craigslist looking for musicians, but never received replies from the ones I thought I could interact with musically and socially. I can play out by myself, I have 3-45 minute and one 20 minute set of original and cover tunes in backing tracks which I made myself with drums, bass, keys, horns, string etc. Mostly blues based rock or blues. But it ain't the same as having other good guys to push me beyond what I can do by myself.

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 8:26 pm
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The CRex is definitely a speaker that just gets better and better each time you play it.


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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 8:31 pm
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I knew a few bonafide Woodstock attendees but I personally missed the event because Uncle Sam deemed that he had a more urgent use for my strong back and weak mind than did I myself. I was industriously trying to maintain a close physical relationship with all of my body parts in a hostile land when Jimi took to the stage -- wish I could've been there though.

The one nice thing about Bisbee is it's relative pristine 1920's architecture -- it's been used as a period location by many filmmakers over the years. Whenever they come to town the call goes out for extras to flesh out crowd scenes and it seems the entire population turns out, all of them expecting their golden moment in the sun. I've worked on several movies there.

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:41 pm
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I am amazed at the sound of this HRD amp with C-Rex every time I play it.

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Post subject: Re: The more I use the C-Rex/HRD, the better I like it.
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:51 pm
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I am amazed at the sound of this HRD amp with C-Rex every time I play it.


+1

And like a fine cabernet, it improves with age.

I put a C-Rex into a client's PRRI about three years ago and after some creative tube-rolling it's one of the ballsiest re-issue Princeton's I've ever heard. I had recommended to him a Ragin' Cajun but he was adamant about wanting the larger driver for a more well-defined bottom end and willing to pay to convert the baffle board for a twelve. It worked out real well and the C-Rex really delivers.

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