Take a shot everytime I say "here" in the post-playthrough section of the video and prepare to die... If you survive, check out the IRs here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/9x0e3g7e0vmp3cn3qn7cs/h?rlkey=8m59elnty47mmn8t8ee7i5s2g&dl=0

Ahhhh yes..the Governor! So underrated. I had a set in my Hughes and Kettner cab, and if they weren't so damn heavy, I'd have kept them. We need to petition a neodymium version of these to be made because they are absolute gems.

Sea Sheppard! Represent! Awesome video, as always!

The Eminence is probably the one I could listen to all day in the background and it would be less "tiring" - but if you turn it up (for me) there simply is something missing that the V30 undoubtedly has. Great shootout as always! Cheers!

I loved the governor in this comparison. Its sounds clear and articulate compared to the V30. Now I'd love to see it compared with a private jack and wizard. Thanks for all the hard work.

As always, I'm here for this!

The combination of the two is amazing!

I love this speaker combination. it's what I use, and when I add the eminence cv7516 its way more sonically complete. Freaking awesome!

They Match awesome together!!! Thanks for the awesome Content, liiiiiiiike 🤜🤛

I've been using Eminence speakers since 1976 if memory serves me. They came stock in my Ampeg amps. Back then I ran a VT22 with a 2 X 12 extension, in tandem with a Ampeg V4 which powered 2 of Ampeg's legendary 8 X 10 cabs. A few years back I purchased four of the Governors and couldn't be happier. From your post you seem to be very appreciative of their website, I was blown away but their tech support. Great video.

Great video. As always :)

Another great example of how unless your after something specific, the Vintage30 is really hard to beat. I personally prefer a 212 cab with 1 Creamback and 1 Vintage30 combined. It balances out nearly perfect for almost any genre or style. If you need more raspy breakup, mix a Greenback and Vintage30 together for the Priest or Scorps tone. Those 3 models of Celestion speakers are all you should ever really need. Everything else I've ever tried or heard, did nothing those 3 can't already.

Trying these IRs out in a mix is actually a pretty enticing idea...be careful what you ask for! 🙃

Wildly different! Great comparison.

Sounds closer to a creamback than a v30. Cool test, thanks!

I know @SpectreSoundStudios likes to constantly complain about the vintage 30, but what I’m getting from your videos is that there is a reason it is so popular: it just sounds good. I’m surprised how it’s consistently my favorite. I’m also amazed at how some can sound similar when playing clean but distortion really brings out their character. These demos really reinforce Glenn’s belief that speakers can make a huge difference in your sound.

Love the midrange of the V30 more.

I am a fan of Eminence. Their website is, indeed, very useful. I do use other drivers with them but if I'm using a single driver i almost always use Eminence.

I love the governor, pair it with the dv-77 and they work together amazingly.

My favorite speaker. I've tried other combinations but I always come back to 2 governors on the top row, mixed with different speakers on the bottom.

I bought a Governor brand new back in 2006 and put it in a Peavey Classic 30. I liked it well enough but later I replaced it with a Vintage 30 which had more high end sparkle and character plus good lows and mids. Pretty much made it sound like a nice little Marshall! It gave me the impression Eminence speakers sound dull and muddy but lately I've played through some really good sounding ones.. so I still have much to learn lol

Nice job on the comparison! After listening through my Galaxy Buds Live, I can safely say that the V30 is legendary for a reason, and the Governor has this grating raspy prescence that i dont like. I really want to try the CV75's. I have a pair of Eminence V12's (16 ohm) in a 2x12 Cab and feeling the itch to try something new.

Love what I hear from the Governor. I almost acquired a couple a few months ago but ended up going with the CV75 from Eminence instead.

As always thanks a lot for your work. best comparisons on youtube! This one is not really for me tbh. I'm never sure if a huge part is that I am so used to v30s, but I really prefered it by quite a bit here. Interesting though - like on a lot of these videos - they sound so much more different than they look on the FFTs!

In general, I prefer the V30, but the Governor is nice, and I can see in winning out in the right context. That gray super strat is also a beautiful guitar!

amazing ... i would love to get a dv77 but they are so expensive in europe ... are you gonna test the mic position where the terminals meets the speaker to damp the high end like nolly said in his tone talk?

Comments here at head scratching to me. Governor sounds miles better than the v30. The fullness in the tone is comparable to radio bands with the Governor being FM and the V30 being AM. The v30 sounds dead compared to the governor

Governor is killer in a combo amp, a bit darker and fuller sounding in person, in the room, just in my experience with my open back combos, but the ones that really seem more like a V30 are the Eminence CV75 and DV77 🔥

I really like the Eminence here, more so than the V30

Celestion for me. There is a certain signature sound the copies can't duplicate.

Wow, great comparison as usual, your playing just fine, don't worry. as for Governors vs V30.. Your graphs and samples in the video showed pretty much same thing that I experienced in real life after swapping V30 for Governors in my two Diezel 4x12 cabs. Governors have more open top end(you called it brilliance,) mids are less spiky than v30, but at the same time they more open and detailed (like there is more air in between harmonics, so governor sounds wider. Low end is similar, but in real life I felt that V30 low end is a little more blurry, where as governor is more defined and bold what I never liked about V30, is that they often seem to have more squished congested mids, and have this "way too close to your ear" effect, like some fuzz pedal do, so speaker sounds kinda tired and worn out. Governor sounds in v30 ballpark but more like v30 that was recorded and produced with some fixes in mixing console... I mean if we compare your raw recording tone in this video vs lets say " Killswitch Engage - The Signal Fire", I feel that governor is a little closer to that tone than v30. obviously I don't think that KSE guys use governors, but mixing engineer adjust guitar sound so end result it more "Governish". For me personally Governors worked better in live playing situation: amp is more sensitive to settings(so I can dial them better), that "wider mids" thing helps with clarity. if I had to point downsides of governor, I think it sounds more aggressive, pissed off, abrasive, whatever you wanna call it, it might not work in every single situation. lets say you want more of classic rock blurry lo fi tones, v30 can do them a little better, just because is less HD. governor will always had that modern HD twist. It's like 1080 vs 4k video. Once I tried to Mix speakers (V30 + Governors or Governors+G12K100), didn't really like the results, seems like this Mixing speaker from different manufacturers is like combing worst from both worlds. I know That GreenBack + V30 works great, but seems like Celestion and Eminence have their own sound, and mixing them in one box isn't the best thing I tried, so I guess, have you had 3 more governors in the cab, difference would be even more distinctive once again I wanted to say thank you for fair and actually great comparison. your speaker sound pretty much what I hear from my speakers. unfortunately there are plenty videos comparing V30 and governor, and somehow often governor sounds like shit (mic placement I guess), I always ask myself, WTF is wrong with those guys. cause I know for a fact that Governor is a hidden Gem of speakers, however brand new speakers will require some break in(out of the box the seem to be very stiff )

I was thinking of pairing an Eminence GB12 with a 'The Governor'.

The Governor sounds much fuller, like it covers more of the midrange. I guess it sounds more balanced than the V30, likely just due to that upper mid or treble/presence difference. Horses for courses, I suppose, but the Governor was more pleasing to me. Not that the V30 is bad, just different.

I wonder how the speakers are wired in the cab. If any V30 are in series with Governor they are affecting eachother. Barefaced Audio got a video on this. Anyway, I like Governor but since I don't find my own V30s spikey or harsh, in fact I find them quite smooth but punchy, I guess Governor would be too smooth/dark for my liking.

I love the Eminence site for the same reason!. I might get a governor to see how it sounds with my DV-77, cant help but to never be happy with my sound.

The V30 is still the king of metal speakers.

I really liked V30 for cleans here but for distortion, no thanks. Governor is nice on both.

I keep both in my studio

Holy icepick ear fatigue, Batman! The Vintage 30 is very piercing.

1:21 when picking the speakers I paid close attention to the datasheets Eminence provides, I went with one speaker that had like a 105hz resonance and the other with 53hz and close to a harmonic as possible and was going based on conversations I had with a member of the band Ape that worked in the speaker department at Soldano in the early 2000s and his advice, guys name is slipping me

The Governor is great mixed with Texas Heat.

You should do a vid on the Jensen Mods series. Very underrated speaker.

If you can use 3/1 or some wonderful phase voodoo to show cab, room, and then cab+room that would be tremendous...

Good comparison man. Like to see more like this. I use Gov with others. My best couple is with Spamp Thang. Try it. Anyway, i have also older version od Gov with different label & this seems much better. Is it a wear or production tolerance? Who knows. I like it much. Waiting for more comparisons. ... waiting for Hesu vs DV77 😉😁

Their CV 75 seems closer to the 30 but the Governor is more interesting. It’s got a low mids throaty

I would say the CV75 is a better contender against the V30

I was multitasking while this video was on. Heard some guitar, heard some MUCH better guitar so I looked to see what it was. It was the V30.

I use an pair of Eminence Legend 121 with and pair of Eminence Commonwealth and in a VHT fatbottom cab, its 750W of destruction!

In this test V30 has "a sound" that I would use notches to combat. Not bad though.

I would love to get your thoughts on the Eminence DV-77 speaker!

do yourself a favor and try eminence the TONKER - it was a speaker I never though I'd actaully like, until I found one locally for very cheap... blows the V30 out of the water on high gain response - at least if you want to hear the bright piercing clear highs - but it also still holds the low end very well the dust cap on it is about 5x the size of a v30 it's got the stiffness for the higher highs, but the cone baffle is loose enough to still get the low end, it's almost like a if you have mixed the v128's with a vintage 30 by it self.

In reference to a V30 I can actually know what these speakers you test sound like. Thank you!

The smoothest speaker is you.

The thing about the v30 vs literally any speaker is it makes them all sound dull on video. I own the wgs reaper 30 watt and it's fairly bright but not next to the v30.

The Eminence is like a tamer goverened V30.

I like both together but the v30 on its own is too damn bright ( unless I am down tuning the hell out of my guitar)

Is there a volume difference between the Guv and the 30? Or is it the highs of the 30 giving us a percieved volume difference? Thanks for the content. I feel like it is just the tonality shifts that give the illusion of louder. Liked and subbed.

It's v30 all day long! 🙏❤️

Vintage sounds like it has a notch bump which I don't like. Governor is much more even in the higher end.

Celestion and Eminence definitely do NOT measure the same way. I wish they did. Celestion likes to obfuscate all their speaker parameters too.

Eminence: "what if we took the V30 and made it sound like a bassless chainsaw"

I dunno about it being smoother, its the opposite in fact. Maybe in the room?

Vintage 30 demolished the Eminence. V30's sound modern and cutting and sit forward in the mix.