Henriksen Amps: Comparing Bud Six, Ten + Twelve 

Well, that’s really a tough question. I did some experiments with a wet/dry/wet setup using a TWELVE or TEN for dry and 2 SIX stereo for wet signal (this is like Steve Lukather uses his rig). The SIX is great for wet (FX)sounds, because smaller sound sources can be located more easily on the stereo width, and the FX-sounds are really sound awesome, but you don’t lose any power and still cut through with the dry TWELVE. Another thing I tried was using the bud head (man, I love this amp!) with the TWELVE cab the Henriksen Ray cab for acoustic sounds, using a x-over between TWELVE and RAY. This was great, because the TWELVE sounds great for lows and mids and the RAY Cab gave the silver highs you need when playing a flattop. Using bigger arrays may cause some problems with interferences….I recorded the 3 amps (six, ten, twelve) simultaneously but on different tracks and with closed miking, and the sound of the three together in the room wasn’t that clear, because they stand to close to each other. So you need to be careful about the positions of the amps/cabinets and I would suggest to use 3 amps/cabs max to provide that problems. If you like to realize the array thing I would suggest to use the bud head and a combination of a big speaker (Twelve) and one or two cab with smaller ones and use a x-over; or you use the twelve with tweeter off and set the EQ for fat lows and one or two SIX set to boost the highs, so you don’t need a x-over. The TEN is a great allrounder but it hasn’t the fat lows of the TWELVE and lacks the great highs of the SIX. For me the TEN is the best choice when playing just 1 amp.

@@libertymusic3874 Thank you for the detailed reply, that gives me some good insight. I'm kind of using the setup for everything, arch top with both the pickup and a mic on it going in plus voice, flat top acoustic, maybe even a strat later on I don't know. I love that it sounds both great as a PA and guitar amp at the same time. I would just be doing wet/dry where you have one cab dry and one cab with the wet signal blended in... not a true complete separation. I felt like the guys at That Pedal Show get a really good setup with that and it seems simple enough. To me it sounds like a combination of the Twelve and the Six would be really good, I'm just not sure where to fit in the array. If you had a six, twelve, and array and you were running a guitar pickup signal split wet/dry and then a mic on the guitar and a mic on the voice how would you configure that? Would you stack the array up on the six and run the voice and effects through that? Or with the SSL board run the vocals wet dry as well and just run everything dry through the 12? Just curious for an ultimate guitar and vocals wet/dry studio class sound how you would configure six, twelve, and array. Or would you just cut the array out altogether? I wonder what the array would bring to the end result of that kind of setup with a 12 and 6, if it would introduce a complimentary character and bigness or if it would just be too much

I think there s too much hype around the Bud 6. It is not worth the money. There s the 10 at least!

12incher it is!

No. Larger speakers are not louder. Larger speakers = more bass. Small speakers = faster response, more focused sound. Larger speakers more brilliant, more room-filling - but the sound also gets lost. Recommendation: 6.5" for playing in a band with a bass player = no competition. 10" + 12" for solo playing. Henriksen 12" is unfortunately no longer available. Replacement: Henriksen Bud Head with Raezer's Edge Stealth 12ER

No, it does. The amps are identical except for the size of the speaker

@@jonathanc664 Thanks