Warehouse speakers?

[MadRyan]

Originally Posted by microdmitry

Put in the British Leads first. Very, very good. I haven't heard the "real" Celestion Lead 80's, but on their own Warehouse British Leads are easily some of the best speakers I've ever heard, better than Celestion Vintage 30 with my amp for sure. They've completely eliminated the remaining bit of fizz that Celestions had. Clarity is great, and there's quite a bit of bottom end, so I had to dial down the bass a bit. Clean tones are outstanding as well. I think I'll spend a week with these before experimenting further.

I've got the CL-80 clones from WGS mixed with Hellatone 60L's and they sound great.

[microdmitry]

Mixing CL-80's and G12T-75 gets you this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9af7e6Zr14

Too bad I don't have a G12T-75 right now.

[microdmitry]

I just put Veteran 30 into my 2x12 Avatar and I like them too. They have brighter highs (no fizz, still!) and tighter low end than British Leads. Awesome speakers.

[Racerx2k]

Micro, would you say their sampled sounds on their website are a good representation of the speakers in question, now that you have them installed? Curious.

[microdmitry]

Obviously this will depend on the amp and the cab they're installed in. I do think they blow the doors off Celestion Vintage 30's with my amps and cab though.

Here's the same tune played through WH British Leads, WH Veteran 30 and Celestion G12T-75 (not recorded by me, but pretty representative of what I hear with my amp).

G12T-75: http://www.web-design100.com/75.mp3
British Lead: http://www.web-design100.com/cl80%27s%20L2.mp3
Veteran 30: http://www.web-design100.com/v30s.mp3

Except Veteran 30 works slightly better with my amp than British Lead. I also think I'll buy their Greenbacks and "G12H30" when I sell off a bunch of other speakers I have.

[Racerx2k]

Cool stuff, thanks. Trying to decide on the CL80 or the v30s. I have a Laney AOR halfstack with the stock Celestion G12M-70s that is killing me with the upper mids. I'd like to subdue that shrillness, and add a tad more, rounded bottom end. For the price of these, I don't think you can really go wrong.

[microdmitry]

They've just released their G12-65 clones at $65 each. Not bad considering that the original is $155 at Avatar Speakers or $180 everywhere else. I bought a pair.

[brothersnowgone]

I bought a pair of Veteran 30's for a custom 2x12 I made. I can't believe how great these things sound! I'm thinking of selling off my celestion's and reloading my 4x12 cab with some more veteran 30's.