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Post by pvfan on Feb 13, 2011 23:03:33 GMT -7
"Duper" impressed with my Gold 10". Super-duper, that is.
Every note jumps out evenly and smoothly. So smoothly, yet the dynamics are still there, but different, when you dig in or windmill E major. I heard it snapping into place this morning and by this evening it is much smoother. Though it seems to like distortion a lot better than yesterday, I truly love it with my 66 straight in, no dirt or braking. I love it just as much as my Ghia straight into a 12" Blue.
I've discovered I like to give the Gold 10 more of a bass-gain ratio than I ordinarily would with the other speakers I've tried with my 66. The result is not a fatter or bigger low end, but a deeper bass that gives me chills thinking about right now. Such a cool but DEEP low end, wow. It is in a *very* over-sized Avatar 110 cab, same size as an Avatar 112 cab, so that might be helping with this great depth I'm getting.
Pure magic. It's a bebop player's dream. Anyone else tried this speaker with their 66?
Thumbs way, way up!
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Post by mmantle on Feb 14, 2011 15:52:22 GMT -7
Man, i dont know what your profession is, but you should seriously consider selling gear. You've got me googling Plimsouls for the last few days and now this Celestion Gold 10".
Anyways, thanks for the reviews... I also own a rt 66, so i find them interesting.
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Post by pvfan on Feb 14, 2011 23:13:33 GMT -7
ha ha cool, thanks, sometimes I wonder if I'm preaching to the choir too much honestly, although I'm rather excited about this Z-centric paradigm shift and associated gear revolution I've been undergoing in the last few months, the zeal and exuberance and salesmanship are all just conveyances for jokes if he were around, I'd love to present Charlie here with a 66 and Gold 10. Uber bebop rig. I been playing stuff like this all day.
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Post by mmantle on Feb 15, 2011 7:38:43 GMT -7
Thats awesome. I'm into be-bop too, gotta love Charlie, he was one of the pioneers of jazz guitar. I may be making a big move in the next 6 months... I will have to leave my cabinet behind, and I would like a small cab for my rt. 66... maybe the 10" Gold is where its at. 1 one of these puppies really handles the 66 well? Do you have any experience with the 12" version and how they compare?
What kind of setting do you use for jazz on the rt. 66, and with what type of guitar?
Thanks a lot, Mark
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Post by pvfan on Feb 15, 2011 17:36:38 GMT -7
Thats awesome. I'm into be-bop too, gotta love Charlie, he was one of the pioneers of jazz guitar. I may be making a big move in the next 6 months... I will have to leave my cabinet behind, and I would like a small cab for my rt. 66... maybe the 10" Gold is where its at. 1 one of these puppies really handles the 66 well? Do you have any experience with the 12" version and how they compare? What kind of setting do you use for jazz on the rt. 66, and with what type of guitar? Thanks a lot, Mark thanks for the questions my #1 guitar is a Peavey Wolfgang with rosewood board and fixed bridge. According to my fingers and ears it is the best electric guitar I've ever picked up, but they've been known to drink. I agree with them though, it's every guitar in the world to me. It reminds me of a good Paul, a Tele and a Strat all at the same time, no matter how illogical that sounds. So there's that basis for reference. Here's what I like best about the Gold 10. Sometimes when using other speakers with the 66, when I flip to my neck humbucker by itself and hit a low note in the middle of the neck, there can be a tsunami of bass. Too much. Because the 66 is big and fat, yes? Sometimes, boom! Ya know what I mean? Well, the Gold 10 just Steven Seagalizes that crap into some smoooothie doomie. I mean it ain't even fully broke-in yet and it's like butter, baby. Does it really handle the 66? Absolutely. Dimed? All knobs max'd? Yes. But the louder you go, the less smooth it is, and the more of that hard-for-me-to-define "oldness" comes out -- not a modern sound at all. But a very *comfortable* one. In fact, if I had to pick a single adjective for this speaker it would be "comfy". This next part will sound crazy. Nuts. One fine day, I had 2 custom shop Teles before me to a/b with a row of amps big and small. One was alder, the other was ash. Keep in mind these are custom shop Fenders and not flukey bad examples for use in mad science. Going from the alder one to the ash one was the SAME exact switch in vibe as switching the 66 from any other speaker to this Gold 10. Can anyone possibly know what I mean by that? It's like, the neck feels "sticky" in a good way? ... like walking in boot-sucking mud except it's yer fingers doing the walking and the neck of the guitar is the mudhole? wha--? I'm not a bebop player per se, but that's the kinda stuff that was leaping out of the rig yesterday. The knobs on the amp move all over the place, and I have no favorite settings. Or, too many favorite settings maybe. But no matter where the knobs are I'm usually happy for most everything I play, whether it's bebop, or channeling Frank Marino or David Gilmour, or alt-picking some technical metal riff. Nope, never tried a Gold 12 nor any other alnico 10", but based on this experience I would love to. Finally for now, one of the many reasons I chose this speaker for mad science was the power handling. There aren't many 40 watters out there of which I'm aware, and I thought that aspect would allow me to exploit the 66's breakup a bit better than with one of its 50 watt peers like the Red Fang or Gold 12.
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