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Texas Heat
May 21, 2017 15:07:32 GMT -7
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Post by jkramsey1991 on May 21, 2017 15:07:32 GMT -7
So a friend of mine posted a gently used Eminence Texas Heat for sale for a good price so I snagged it up and installed it in my little fender 1x12 closed back cab. I love this speaker with my Maz38nr. Great rounded tone with a real tight responsive low end.
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Post by headshrinker (Marc) on May 21, 2017 18:21:46 GMT -7
I've got a Texas Heat that I also really like. Mine's in a 212 cab with a Creamback. They pair up really nice. It's wired so I can go mono or stereo. I usually run stereo with two different amps, one powering each speaker.
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Post by mikefleming on Jun 1, 2017 10:15:44 GMT -7
I put a TH in my Maz 18, after using a bunch of Celestions. It's awesome, it really brings a lot more "Fender" to the sound, while still having the thick Maz mids. I'm going to try a Swamp Thang next.
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Jun 13, 2017 15:55:41 GMT -7
How would you describe the difference between the Celestions and the Texas Heat?
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Post by mikefleming on Jun 14, 2017 10:52:19 GMT -7
With a telecaster clean, the TH gives a classic Jensen/Fender type of fullness - it makes the high strings have that certain round "tele" body that I can't accurately describe; whereas the Celestions had full low mids, but the higher-end definition was somehow thinner. It was a nice brightness that I associate with Vox tones, but there was a lack of that fendery roundness to the high strings.
With crunch and higher gain however, the Celestions gave me a more classic Marshall sound, with full low mids, and in that case the highs gave it nice presence; or if I brought down the cut and treble, it was just a huge round Marshally crunch.
I know it sounds a little cliche, but they really did sound strongly like representations of their associated amp styles - Creamback M/Creamback H/V30 all had a strong Marshall/Vox type of sound in this amp, and TH/ST both have a fat but clearly fendery sound.
And for me, I'd been trying to get more of that classic fendery clean, so the Texas Heat (and now the Swamp Thang) have been perfect. Still big and full, but with that classic fendery roundness.
The TH/SW have both been great for crunch too, but in an ideal world I'd like to have a Creamback H in a separate cab to use for crunch tones. There was something glorious happening when I really cranked the amp into either of the creambacks.
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