GabKits Blog » celestion http://www.gabkits.com/blog Adventures in homebrewed Guitar Amps Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:17:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Celestion Heritage G12 M Speaker http://www.gabkits.com/blog/celestion-speakers/celestion-heritage-g12-m-speaker http://www.gabkits.com/blog/celestion-speakers/celestion-heritage-g12-m-speaker#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:33:50 +0000 Gabi http://www.gabkits.com/blog/?p=111 Heritage G12 M

Heritage G12 M

Celestion Heritage G12M

Introduced in 1960, the Celestion G12M speaker was presented as a version of the already popular G12 guitar speaker.

The G12M, known widely as The Greenback (because of its green magnet cover) featured a medium size magnet (thus the M in its title) able to produce smooth, silky and warm tones with a very well balanced brightness and punch that was able to cut through the most foggy mix of the band.
The Greenback was a very articulate speaker, and prepared the way for many rock guitar players of that age.

But as time passed, the Celestion Greenback’s tonal character deviated from its original counterpart made in the 1960s, since the factory had to adapt to the available materials at the time, but nevertheless, staying the speaker of choice among for the amp builders.

The currently available Heritage Series G12M is a detailed truthful design and reproduction of the 1960s original speaker down to the same available materials used in that era (voice cone) and technology, featuring even the the solder-on connectors.

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Celestion Speakers

Celestion Speakers

What’s up with the fact that every  guitar amplifier using Celestion Speakers receives almost instantly a proper British accent? What on Earth makes them so coveted in our amps, what’s that mystery or aura that defined and sealed the tone of rock for ever?

Read along about the characteristic of some of the most popular Celestion speakers that are on the market today!

What speaker goes with my guitar amplifier?

This proves to be a debatable question very close to a foodie asking “What wine can be paired with my dish?”

Given the fact that each and every guitar amp type (or rather to sound geeky – amp class) has a very distinct tonal character to begin with, it would make sense to match it with the optimal set of speakers. I’ll mainly talk about UK amps as we know them, to narrow down the multitude of existent amp flavors.

A very intriguing aspect is that the amps form one side of the pond will simply not sound proper or as we know they should with the speakers from the other side. There’s a very distinct tonal character in each amp that defines its own historic personality and popping a speaker that comes from another world or time will result in a tone with an identity crisis. For instance, how would a Fender Bassman sound with Celestion speakers, or a Marshall JTM45 through a 4×12″ cab with Jensens?

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