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Title: OTS with 15'' Celestion bass speaker - sound samples Post by: Pickmaster on September 04, 2008, 03:45:39 PM Hello everyone,
Yesterday I’ve recorded some sound samples with my Overtone and Celestion BL15-150 bass speaker and I was very impressed with the tonal qualities of this setup. The OTS presence is on 10 !!! to compensate treble. Please enjoy the samples and let me know what you think. Cheers (http://www.guitarampcab.com/BCAB1.JPG) 1. CLEAN neck pickup - http://www.guitarampcab.com/cabnkcl.mp3 2. CLEAN bridge pickup - http://www.guitarampcab.com/cabbrcl.mp3 3. CLEAN rhythms - http://www.guitarampcab.com/cabrtm.mp3 4. DRIVE neck pickup - http://www.guitarampcab.com/cabnkdr.mp3 5. DRIVE bridge pickup - http://www.guitarampcab.com/cabbrdr.mp3 6. DRIVE + BOOST - http://www.guitarampcab.com/cabbrbst.mp3 Title: Re: OTS with 15'' Celestion bass speaker - sound samples Post by: René F on September 04, 2008, 06:03:56 PM Hey
That setup sounds absolutely great, big dynamic sound, and you definately can hear the speaker moving some air :) What does the built in microphone compare to??? A dynamic sm57 or something totally different Regards René Title: Re: OTS with 15'' Celestion bass speaker - sound samples Post by: Pickmaster on September 04, 2008, 07:00:23 PM Hi Rene,
It is bit more powerful and more neutral – does not colour the tone. Title: Re: OTS with 15'' Celestion bass speaker - sound samples Post by: mcinku on September 08, 2008, 06:08:59 AM Maybe it's just me but from that clips the amp does not sound as smooth as I would think a D amp should sound like.
...on the other hand, this speaker can deliver that "gutsy" tone which is way cool. Overall I would say, I would love to have this cab in my cab arsenal. ;) Title: Re: OTS with 15'' Celestion bass speaker - sound samples Post by: Pickmaster on September 08, 2008, 12:55:12 PM Maybe it's just me but from that clips the amp does not sound as smooth as I would think a D amp should sound like. ...on the other hand, this speaker can deliver that "gutsy" tone which is way cool. Overall I would say, I would love to have this cab in my cab arsenal. ;) Hi Mcinku, Probably because that I’m using Strat with a single coils and for that, bridge pickup sounds pretty powerful and smooth, especially with drive + boost. Also my strat’s volume and tone pots are 1 meg and 500k. Instead of 250k. Looking at your lovely 5E3 deluxe walnut head you can ask same guy to build you a cab as ours. ;D Title: Re: OTS with 15'' Celestion bass speaker - sound samples Post by: mcinku on September 09, 2008, 05:52:23 AM Hi Mcinku, Probably because that I’m using Strat with a single coils and for that, bridge pickup sounds pretty powerful and smooth, especially with drive + boost. Also my strat’s volume and tone pots are 1 meg. Instead of 250k. Looking at your lovely 5E3 deluxe walnut head you can ask same guy to build you a cab as ours. ;D ;D Yes a matching cab would be beautiful but at the moment I have other projects going on here and the cab that I have, does everything I need. 1M versus 250k... I went from 1M to 250k on my tele and I did some measuring while I did it. Well my findings were, if your pot is fully open there is no difference at all... I'm not saying the test I did met all the scientific conditions but still..., here is my result for E string (maybe just slight less hi end but maybe my string attack was a little different as well ??? ) Title: Re: OTS with 15'' Celestion bass speaker - sound samples Post by: Pickmaster on September 09, 2008, 09:16:08 AM That’s probably because your TONE pot was still 250k. Disconnect it and you will definitely hear the difference in high frequency response.
Tone pot on all my guitars are MIDLE SPLIT ! 500k. in the middle position it switches OFF and on the one side it has 0.04 mkf and on the other side is 3300 pkf. This gives you very interesting tone shaping possibilities. Title: Re: OTS with 15'' Celestion bass speaker - sound samples Post by: mcinku on September 09, 2008, 09:35:23 AM That’s probably because your TONE pot was still 250k. Disconnect it and you will definitely hear the difference in high frequency response. Tone pot on all my guitars are MIDLE SPLIT ! 500k. in the middle position it switches OFF and on the one side it has 0.04 mkf and on the other side is 3300 pkf. This gives you very interesting tone shaping possibilities. That is an interesting feature, definitely some coll possibilities there. ...and just for the record, I went from 1M tone&volume to 250k tone&volume. While I was measuring this change, both pots were fully open. ;) |