[rcboals]

I've been using this as my gigging amp the last several gigs and it has been great easy to carry and pack around. It just breaks up a little to early and could be a little louder to be perfect. I got to thinking if I could get some more headroom and airyness of a 12 it would be perfect. I hooked it up to the speakers in my 212 pro reverb and the sound was what I was looking for louder cleaner and a little later breakup. Well 212's don't fit but a 12 and 10 would. I had a Celestion Vintage 30 60 watts and a Jensen C10Q 35 watt speakers lying around so I cut a new baffle 3/4 birch plywood cut two holes put the existing grill cloth on and all I can say is it worked and sounded like I wanted. Sometimes things do go together the way I want and this is one of those times. I have amazed myself once again. Link for when I first got the amp if your interested.
http://www.gretsch-talk.com/forum/am...built-one.html

[Sarah93003]

Very cool!

[rcboals]

X500 and 5E7

YouTube- 56 Pontiac @ Goodfellas

[Synchro]

A 12" is definitely going to help open up the sound. Congrats on finding a good compromise.

[Jukebox]

Sounds good!

[Sarah93003]

It looks like the drummer has that Orangutan thing down pretty well. "Left turn, Clyde!"

I would love to hear a better sounding clip of your X500 and that amp. Was the video before or after the recent speaker mod?

[rcboals]

Update it did sound good but I went back to the three weber signature tens for the growl they are only 15 watt speakers. I'm looking to upgrade to Jensen P10Q or the Weber equivalent if I can find a good deal on them It is usually miced so the clean will just played at lower volume.
I think my ears must change minute to minute.

[coolbus18]

Nice indeed!

[RichBolduc]

Not sure if it's the same with guitar speakers, but I would assume it is.... I use to be a big time car audio nut and competed every weekend including world finals. Mixing speaker sizes in car's was a big no-no as they'll react differently at specific frequencies, there for canceling out portions of those frequencies. I'm talking about subs here. The way we used multiple speaker sizes for the mids/highs was with cross-overs.... If it worked for you though, nice

[gringo]

Crossovers are necessary when trying to build something to reproduce a wide audio spectrum but they are not of much use within the very limited range of the guitar.