There is something magic with the Blue model. With Queen music, it sounds more tragic. There is more carried emotion. Thanks for that great demo and for your personnal time involved. You're not the only tone nerd around here !
In teoria il Gold appena uscito dallo scatolo e montato Dovrebbe sentirsi come un blu" rovinato" Xké usato molto ad alti volumi . Quindi comprando il blu si hanno tutti e due i suoni Col passare del Tempo. Praticamente il gold è per chi Vuole Da subito il suono del blu che si ha solo dopo molte ore di utilizzo a Full volume... O almeno ho letto questo nella descrizione della celestion. Ora bisognerebbe capire Se nella prova è stato usato un blu nuovo
What a great clip! Awesome playing sir. I put a 10 inch gold in an old Princeton Reverb several years ago and like it for the mids it added while tightening the bass and retaining the clear highs and chime. Between the blue and gold here, Valentin doesn't mention whether the EQ was left the same for each speaker though I assume it was. So I have to believe a slight EQ tweak would easily balance the slight difference in mids between them.
Brian May has used all manner of speakers in his AC30’s - from the alnico blue, silver alnico (silver bells) greenbacks and blue fanes...they all sound excellent when pushed the Brian May way.
Dude, that must be a great sounding, pricey cab. 1 gold was all I could spring for, paired with a V30 in a marshall particle board MCX 2 x 12. The mic goes on the gold!
@@SCOTT-ki3ve My full cost was over $5000 with all Flame Maple and purple Heart dove tails with ports. 4x12 gold's and 4x12 Fanes. Two Cornford heads RK100 and MKII 50 custom with matching purple. You have know idea how good this setup sounds. The setup was build in 2005. KW cabs built the cabinets.
Oh man that sounds sooo good. You need to do a video. Especially on the fanes. Most of us dont even know what they sound like. I just know they're coveted. I hope you play this rig alot. I just have a fender super 60 red knob combo(valve) to drive my cabinet, and that sounds great, its the best bang for you buck in muaic, but yours sounds like the best bang period
Second A/B review I have listened to on YT where the Gold comes out sounding middly against a V30 and the Blue as here...surprised... and a bit disappointed! Won't buy one then!
My Carmen Ghia sounds fantastic with the Blue, but I have a slight preference for Weber's 30 watt AlNico Silver Bell (pre-rola treatment), with it's bigger bottom end and better clean tones. The blue does have more complexity, though. As a stand alone speaker, I lean toward the Silver Bell.
Blue sounds more aggressive and raspy. The Gold little more mellow and darker. I just bought a Weber Blue Dog 30 watt no dope. I like it already but its not broke in yet. Comparing speakers, they are all speakers so the sound varies just little bit my opinion. Human nature is to always want something else. Im happy with the weber, I also have the ceramic version. They sound close alike at low volumes, the Alnico sounds better cranked. Maybe one day ill try out a Celestion Blue, I have a china Celestion Vintage 30 and it sounds great also. Out of all three that i have i like them all. I currently have a Orange Dark Terror 15 watt amp head. I would most likely sound great with 15 watt speakers.
If you are playing back a recorded version of Queen this is a good test. I have blues, golds in many cabs both closed,open,partial. Marshall, Fender,Mesa..Seeing that probably less than 1/2 of 1% of people can tell a difference LIVE, it us anal hardcore osd music geeks that notice. At $200+ each of course you as a owner will think it sounds better.
if you're trying to sound like brian may you can do way more to achieve that tone with amp settings and shaving a metal coin down to use as a pick than by splitting hairs over tiny differences in frequency response curves between two more than adequate speakers - and you'd save a lot of money in the process just saying
Valentin Váradi Perhaps, or the blue is just as damn loud as the 30w speaker with the scooped midrange your next door neighbor was looking at the other day. Oh Gods of tone, grant me the perfect paper bell. Blue power!
Just blend them, 2 x Blues 8 ohm connected serial and then a Gold 16 ohm connected in Parallel with Blues so you get total 8 ohms from 3 speakers and max 60W plus a few watts spare on Gold. But I think Gold sounds sweeter and closer to the original B. May tone. Also drivers sound better after proper brake/burn-in process.
...anyone can tell me please?....do speakers sound better when they have a matching wattage to the valve amp, like a 30 watt speaker to a 22watt valve, or can they sound as good or better if for the same amp a 50 watt speaker is used?.....
Doesn't really matter. I have a 1x12 cab with a 20 watt speaker that I have run with a 18 watt amp and also with a 5 watt amp. Sounds great both ways. Definitely get a speaker with more wattage than the amp is rated. So if you have a 22watt amp I would get AT LEAST a 30 watt speaker. Actually, I would probably go with a rating of 50 or 60 watts personally. I also have a 2x12 with a gold and a g12h30 anniversary rated at 60 watts total power handling. It sounds great with amps rated from 5 all the way to 50 watts.
I do not know if it's psychological, I just started to feel the difference on the guitar solo. I found the BLUE slightly creamy or velvety. That's the way I like.
Please help me decide between a Gold, Vintage 30 (12 inch)! Thanks! (Just edited this because I realized the Blue isn't enough watts) If anyone can please chime in it would be much appreciated! I’m aware my rig has nothing to do with Brian May’s or accomplishing the tones in this video-But I explain what I’m working with to help get an answer to which Celestion speaker might be best for me. Thanks y’all! So I play burstbuckers through a boutique take on Princeton Reverb that has 35 watts, a 12” speaker, a master volume, increased headroom, mids control and a mids boost footswitch. This is to play clean tones at higher volume in a band setting AND also to be able to use more boost/overdrive/distortion-things I couldn’t/shouldn’t do with my 1966 Princeton Reverb. The problems are pretty bad sounding bass and mids than on this boutique amp. The mids control and a mids boost footswitch are cool in theory but in practice they don’t sound so good. I want these features to live up to their potential and I want my E and A strings to sound more like my vintage amp. My theory is the problem is the speaker- a Jensen 12Q. Switching out the Jensen from the vintage PR (a new Jensen not the original speaker) was also a big upgrade. So which Celestion is best for what I’ve described? The $ difference is not a big factor, I just sold a guitar and that money is going into fixing this problem. Thank you gracias thank you gracias!!
