Cab advice needed - Straight or Slant?

[snakeplissken]

Picking up a new 4x12 soon, it will be my only cabinet. Straight or Slant - opinions?

[motorcop71]

Straight sounds better, slant looks cooler. The splawn 412 slant uses a straight baffle board so I would imagine you get the best of both worlds. I have never tried one though personally. Good luck.

[joshsage]

Straight is my choice, the high end doesn't blast you in the face.

Speakers:
Manowars - 75 watt celestion mock ups, but don't have that super trebely high end.

Guvnors - V30 mock up but responds a lot better w/ the quickrod than the v30's, don't have that super nasty mid hump that makes a really honky sound. Better than v30's in my opinion.

Celestion 75: Good all around speaker but tainted with the trebely high end that will rip your head off. All in all a nice speaker with that one problem.

Celestion V30: Good speaker for almost everything except splawn amp. I love 30's but they just aren't my cup of tea with a splawn. The mid spike just doesn't seem to show the same good character with the splawn.

Celestion G12H30: REALLY REALLY REALLY freakin good speaker. Cross character of a greenback and a v30, with no nasty midspike of the v30. Smooth breakup and rich harmonics. Clean headroom is increased with an xpattern with a 75 or manowar. Really smooth, another fav of mine.

Greenback: Lacking clean headroom, but if thats not your thing, oh well these are great for those overdriven tones when you wanna push your pre gains up and hit the speakers and power tubes hard. Cranked, these sound GREAT.

X patterns - EMI X (guv/mano) Great cross pattern, plenty of headroom and smooth sound due to lack of high end treble. Works good with many other amps too....
(haven't had as much experience with this one so I'll let others input also)

FAVORITE CAB COMBO - MANOWAR/ H30's - Best of both worlds. You can really cover a whole lot of territory with this combo. I tested it with the following:
Diezel herbert
Diezel Einstein
Engl SE
Engl Powerball
Engl Savage
Engl Invader
Splawn Quick Rod
Framus Cobra
Peavey Classic 100
Peavey Classic 30H
Traynor YCV40
Traynor YCV40blue
Mesa Dual Rec
Marshall JCM 900
Bogner Uberschall

All sounded superb


Hope this helps ya!

People feel free to add comment or correct anything.

Josh

[LooseCannon]

Hey Josh great post. What do you think of the g12-65's or the EVM's with the quickrod?

[snakeplissken]

Thanks for the input Josh. That last speaker combo sounds up my alley.

[joshsage]

no exp w/ either of those speakers...
Josh

[Jammermatt]

Josh, great post. That last combo looks tasty since I have V30/H30 mix (hellatones) - and I've noticed some honkiness with anything played up the neck on the G-string. I'm talking guitar strings guys. I wonder if it's just the V30 talking, and the Mano would maybe help in this department. I agree with you, I prefer the H30 over the V30.