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Post by telejas on May 24, 2018 8:56:49 GMT -7
I've had 3 Stang Rays since they first came out in 2006. I currently have a Stingray......I've had about every Alnico speaker brand and configuration you can think of over the past 12 years with this amp, except the Creamback, and they all sound GREAT! Especially for cleans and semi-cleans. You get that spanky, compressed, upper mid-range cut that you'd associate with this style of amp/speaker configuration. But there's always been frequency that is missing to my ears when I'm using dirt pedals (especially when mic'd)....Somewhere in the low-mid range (250k-500k) that adds thickness to your overdrive pedals. So, I tried several ceramic speakers, and found that missing frequency but lost the compressed & chimey Alnico tone and feel - my cleans suffered some in comparison. Still nice, but not "Alnico" nice. Then I tried a Tone Tubby Alnico Red speaker...... I put that in my Z 1x12 cab and have been using it faithfully for the past 18 months. To my ears, it has every frequency covered that I felt is missing in your typical Blue or Gold. Just to be sure, I swapped it out last weekend for a Gold and played a gig with it....I couldn't wait to get home and put the Tone Tubby back in, so as soon as I got home, I put it back in (didn't make my wife happy, banging around at 3am). The Gold/Blues, have a slightly more Hi-fi sound.......But, the TT isn't too far off. Just throwing this out there...... If you mostly play clean, most any Alnico speaker sounds amazing. But, if you do throw dirt in front of your amp and feel it missing something, I urge you to try the Tone Tubby Alnico Red if you get the chance to. Now, if I had a 2x12 cab..... I might have gone with a Blue/Greenback combination and may have achieved the same thing (to my ears). But I'd have to mic both speakers for live gigs or recording.
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Post by Paul (TRANE) on May 24, 2018 12:18:26 GMT -7
Sounds like a great speaker. Have always heard good things on them. Never had a chance to play through one.
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Post by John on May 25, 2018 13:40:30 GMT -7
Even before I ever had my Stangray...I tried a alnico (red) tone tubby. Couldn't stand it! (I was using a maz jr at the time) The speaker was dark and very quiet/inefficient. I couldn't wait to get rid of it. (Jason G on the board bought it) I literally used it for about 30 minutes.
Then years later I got my first 'ray...a 1x12 combo with a gold. Freakin' loud. My first gig was a big outdoor stage with huge pa system. (A festival) ...and I STILL had to air brake it a bit. That gold in there was just too loud. I later got a creamback M...and that was THE speaker for the 'ray.
But now I realize, that alnico TT would probably be a GREAT match with the 'ray. It could control some of the 'ray's crispy high end, and the lower efficiency would help with volume. I just didn't put two and two together back then.
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Post by JASON (aka jgleaton) on Jun 6, 2018 23:21:08 GMT -7
Even before I ever had my Stangray...I tried a alnico (red) tone tubby. Couldn't stand it! (I was using a maz jr at the time) The speaker was dark and very quiet/inefficient. I couldn't wait to get rid of it. (Jason G on the board bought it) I literally used it for about 30 minutes. Then years later I got my first 'ray...a 1x12 combo with a gold. Freakin' loud. My first gig was a big outdoor stage with huge pa system. (A festival) ...and I STILL had to air brake it a bit. That gold in there was just too loud. I later got a creamback M...and that was THE speaker for the 'ray. But now I realize, that alnico TT would probably be a GREAT match with the 'ray. It could control some of the 'ray's crispy high end, and the lower efficiency would help with volume. I just didn't put two and two together back then. and I still have it... great speaker with the ray to get a fuller sound but still have some chime...and I've used it with my Maz Jr Reverb 1x12 studio for years to knock the volume down and still get bit of that alnico sound...
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