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Post subject: Restoring a old cab, need opinions
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:02 am
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Hi

I have a old homemade cab that was built close to fender bassman specs. It was originall set up with 2 12" speakers for guitar, but my uncle ended up buying a '74 twin reverb new back in the day, so my other uncle converted it to a bass cab and covered one of the 12" holes and cut the other out to fit a 15" JBL professional series in it. I think it is a PA speaker, but it sounded good, even for guitar, but the speaker wire was starting to short.

Recently I decided to restore it a bit, because it was getting ratty looking and the short problem. So I pulled off the grill cloth for starters, as it was bad, you could still see where the original 12's were, and it was discolored. I had to use needle nose plieres(SP?) to get some of the grill cloth tacks out. When I get the grill cloth completely removed, I forgot about the pliers and when I lifted the speaker board up the pliers slid down the speaker board and went right through the old JBL speaker cone

So this brings me to my delima. I have a bass, and no amp for it now, but I am a guitar player. So now I am trying to figure out what to do with it. I could make a guitar cab out of it (4x10) or (2x12)? This will require a new speaker board. Or should I return it to being a bass cab? If so I think I could stick with the original speaker board and get a new 15" speaker and replace the top of the board and add 2 x10"s. The cheaper route would be to recone the old JBL or just buy a new 15" speaker and new grill cloth.

I want torestore this thing, but I can't figure out my best route to go. As a guitar cab, I would use it more, but it functioned well with guitar as a bass cab too, so maybe I should make it a bass cab.

Anyway, sorry for the long post. If you made it this far, please take a few more minutes to provide you opinion and any supporting reasons for your opinion....in other words try to convince me of my best coarse with the cab. Feel free to ask questions if you need more info

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:21 pm
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Since it will never be 100% original, I wouldn't worry about what mods you make to it.
My question would be: which option do you think would sound best to YOU?

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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:45 pm
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Todd Montgomery wrote:
Since it will never be 100% original, I wouldn't worry about what mods you make to it.
My question would be: which option do you think would sound best to YOU?

Love,
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That's hard Todd, because I do not know. I have always used celestion speakers by default, but have no experience with other brands. But since celestion is the standard, I feel comfortable using celestion if I make it a guitar cab. I think 2x12 would be sweet, but you hear wonderful things about the old 4x10 bassmans that this cab was built after. That may make it more unique. Remember this thing is totally homemade circa the 70's.

But the thing is, if I build it as a bass cab with 4x10 + 15" it might still sound execellent with both bass and guitar. I just don't know, this is why I seek help.

Maybe someone that uses a old 4x10 bassman cab for guitar can chime in. Any speaker recommendations for making a bass cab would also be appreciated.

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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:53 pm
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I'm certainly no techie. The subtlety of a speaker swap is largly lost on me. I do have a mid-'70's Twin and I love it. But I see your point. Someone in this forum will have a more informed answer.

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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 4:33 pm
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Todd Montgomery wrote:
I'm certainly no techie. The subtlety of a speaker swap is largly lost on me. I do have a mid-'70's Twin and I love it. But I see your point. Someone in this forum will have a more informed answer.


I'm thinking there might be better informed answers at the Amp forums. Those guys are the speaker experts ... at least some of them!

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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:31 pm
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[quote="orvilleownerI'm thinking there might be better informed answers at the Amp forums. Those guys are the speaker experts ... at least some of them![/quote]

I forget that there are other areas to this forum. Ya, go to the amp section. I'm gonna go look over it now...not for long of course, I'll start to miss the Strats....

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