Which speaker combo did you guys like the best? Have you ever tried this before? If so, which speakers worked well together? Enjoy :)

Hey Darrell I owe you a big thanks, after watching your video about blues in the style of SRV. I had a bit of a breakthrough. I'm less than 8 months from starting from nothing with 55-year-old fingers, so it was all I could do to just work on the first four bars. Hitting chords on the fly still eludes me -- but for some reason I nailed that 7#9 chord a few times in a row (broken clocks, right?). And it kept happening. It's a good thing I don't have roommates, because they'd be ready to kill me after a day of playing the same 4 bars about a million times. This is the first time what I was doing actually sounded like rock & roll. I got a huge dose of "I can do this". It still eludes me, and the "nailed it three times in a row" still only happens once in a while, but progress is progress.

Listening to different speakers is testimonial to how important newer and diverse gear can lead to. Testing out different possibilities gives so much more motivation.

Darrell, I’ve been doing something like this with stereo systems since the late ‘80’s. Friends who heard my system (always inexpensive components because I was/am poor) often expressed how good my system sounded compared to their much more expensive systems. The biggest irony of it was when a physician friend who owned a VERY expensive system was ready to swap components with me. I was running a pair of cheap Realistic cabs with some no-name pawnshop cabs, both powered by a low watt Realistic amp. I tried various dis-similar speaker cabs over time, and never found a combination that didn’t sound better than running just one or the other alone.

My favorite combination for a 2 x 12 is a Celestion cream alnico with a Vintage 30, wired in parallel. So good.

Yep this is the way to go. Been using Celestions and Jensens together in a stereo 4x12 for a while. The jacks on my cab allow me to choose either set of speakers or both sets mixed.

I wanted to hear what the Cannabis and the Alnico sound like together

I've been using different speakers in the same multi speaker amp for decades. my best sounding amp is a AA763 Super reverb with 2 Celestions , one alnico, one ceramic, and a ceramic Eminence and an alnico Jensen. It gives any guitar and any player a great sound. One that no one has ever heard before. Very complex and incredibly musical, and as I tell everyone who tries it, "sorry, it,s not for sale"

I just have a Blackstar HT-5R 1x12, but I switched to an Eminence Texas heat and it made a huge difference.

Great content! They both sound amazing! Still my favorite youtuber!

This was a great video/comparison. I learned something I had never thought of -- much less even thought about. Thanks.

I was told buying good speakers is worth it. That’s pretty “sound” advice.

You should try the Cannabis Rex and the WGS Alinco together. One's midrangey and the other is scooped. It should sound amazing.

I have a detuned 4x12 with a Vintage30 and a pre-Rola Celestion Greenback and I absolutely LOVE it!

Hi Darell, when testing sounds like this you should take all effects off so we get only the pure sound of the speakers, not embellished by any types of effects like reverb, delay or echo or anything. Just a thought.

Just did this. 2 x 12 had 2 Clestion G12M Creambacks. Took 1 out and added an old Vintage 30 ... Holy CRap !!!!!! Sounds great. Literally sounds like a stereo cab .. I couldn't tell Which cab I Was using (mine are all lined up). !!!! Highly recommend mixing and matching.

Can confirm, speakers make a difference. I have a Marshall DSL40C that's notorious for being fizzy, shrill, and almost uncomfortably bright with the stock Celestion 70/80 speaker (I had to run the mids dimed and the presence almost cut entirely). I dropped an Eminence Private Jack (50-watt greenback clone) into it and man. What a difference. It's just lovely with the EQ at noon, with maybe a touch of the presence dialed down, and that's it, both with humbuckers and single coils. Great video, as always, Darrell!

I combined my Engl Screamer 50 (Celestion Vintage 30 inside) with Celestion G12T-75 in a self built cabinet and for many years now I'm in tonal heaven! 🎸🎵👌😊

lord have mercy on my wallet

Once again, you have out done yourself with this video. Great job.👍

Always wanted to try a combination of 10s and 12s in the same cabinet to mix the tight punchy bottom end of the tens with the good midrange well rounded sound of the 12s.

Perfect timing! I was just looking at the Vintage 30 and a much more expensive Alnico to replace in my old Epiphone Electar. Vintage 30 is the winner for me as I'm just a home enthusiast these days.

I have a Mesa 212 that came loaded with 2 Celestion V30 but I swapped the top speaker for the Alnico Blue. They both compliment each other and I like it. It has pushed the tone up more to the high end. But still has that low end growl. I like Alnico magnets mixed with the ceramic magnet. The Alnico speaker is louder than the ceramic speaker. I have a Princeton reverb loaded with one Celestion Blue and that’s were I got the idea to mix them because that Princeton sounds amazing.

I have a 2x10 Deluxe Reverb - custom baffle - with one Eminence Legend ceramic and one Eminence Legend alnico. I adore this combination - the two 10's push more air than one 12, and the strengths of each speaker combine alchemically with the other to sound better than two of the same type ever could. I encourage everyone looking for "that sound they hear in their head" to experiment with mis-matched pairs...

Very interesting. Love to see this kind of stuff.

Very good comparison. Kept thinking i needed to here some picking on clean especially the lower wound strings to hear how it handles more resonance. At some point if you're interested, try a high rms audio speaker 12" only, nothing smaller. Play clean, then add modulation(s) for some samples. I've been doing this for 60 years. Lots of gigs and recording. Never been happy with the guitar "voiced" speakers. The results will be obvious, good or not so to your liking. Thanks Darrell!

Been running a WGS Retro 30 and British Lead together in my oversized 2x12 cabinet for years. ran it in stereo for years to really dial in one or the other but ultimately settled on mono as they both sound great together.

Would have been interesting to hear the Cannabis Rex with the WGS Alnico also. Own several of the WGS speakers and have always been happy with them.

In my 4x12 cabs I have always run two V-30s and two G12Hs.... they work very well together. Honestly blown away by the Cannabis Rex and V-30 in the same cab!

Some of the best advice I have been given regarding guitar “gear” was when Jeff at Hime Amplification in Nashville recommended I use two different speakers in a 2x12 cabinet he built for me. My chosen speakers were WGS ET-65 and WGS Blackhawk 50 (alnico, 50w version of their black and blue). Unfortunately WGS wasn’t able to ship the Blackhawk because of their being short staffed during the quarantine, so Jeff put a Vintage 30 in the cab for me to use along with the ET-65 until the Blackhawk is available. That cabinet with the two different speakers creates a dramatically different sound than any single speaker or multi speaker cab with all the same speakers that I’ve heard. It sounds much bigger, more full yet also more open, and with more character. It definitely seems to be a case of the two different speakers together equaling more than just 1+1.

You’re comparisons seem more honest and real world. Thanks

Interesting. Never thought you would want anything but matched speakers in a cabinet. The vintage 30 alone sounded best to me.

My favourite speakers are and have always been the Celestion Greenbacks. I mean Angus Young, Slash and James Hetfeild have all used them so it's fair to say that they're packing some powerful rock and metal tones

Great video Darrell! I’ve got a vintage 30 and a G12H (55Hz) in my 2x12 cab. Works well for me. Would love to see you experiment some more with speaker combinations.

Im a big fan of your channel.. Great video and very informative. All what i need to know about guitar is almost in your channel.

Enjoying the channel. Subscribed.

The calibration tolerances on your left and right channel mics are for sure better than the calibration of my left and right ears.

the combine of two speaker is just amazing

I expected to hear the h&k and nico together also.... way cool test. Thanks Man!!!

Makes you wonder what to do with single-speaker combos!😎❤️️🎸‼️

Thank you for your videos Darrell, I love the variance of the speakers and the unique sound someone can create. I have a question unrelated however, I was wondering, I was looking for the new D'angelico Excel Mini DC videos on the internet, but found that there were no reviews available and there weren't many videos on how it sounded - only from the company itself. I'm wondeirng, can you review this guitar? It looks very cool and from what I did hear, it does sound awesome, and quite unique! Anyway, keep it up man!

swapped «Blue Marvel» in my «Peavey 30 Classic» with «Cannabis Rex». huge difference, but I decided to keep that old stock speaker: it wasn't that good at overdrive, but was soothing and warm being clean. Cannabis Rex turned out to be clear and glassy, even though all the video reviews I saw showed it darn muffled. Moral: there are no good and bad ones, but you should check them yourself to hear the difference.

I have the Sweetwater-exclusive Fender Tweed Princeton with the 12" Cannabis Rex speaker. I really love it!

experimenting with speakers until you find the sound you want makes perfect sense, mixing a celestian speaker with just about any other speaker with the same output is going to give you results for sure, its all about what sounds good to you.

I did this with the Monoprice Stage Right 15w tube amp, threw the 70/80 speaker in a 2x12 with cannabis rex (thinking the v style eq of the 70/80 would smoothen out the warm, low-mid hump I hear from the c.r) There's definitely something do it, and between panning and an eq in post, I like the "wider" sense I get from varying the frequencies coming out of each side of the cab.

Darell, you have confirmed i need a 2x12 cabinet!!! 😄

I use a 2x12 cab with a Cannabis Rex and a Greenback. Sounds amazing with bright amps (Vox, Fender). Wouldn't trade it for the world!

I have listened to these two speakers on your program before. They both have similar and good sounds.

I used to have a Vox AC50CP combo. I mixed a Cannibus Rex with an Eminence Legend (Greenback clone) and really dug that sound. I use B&C 12PE32 a lot for guitar now, as they really hold together for extended range guitars.

The Weed Rex with the V30 was more pleasing to my ears

Nice video. I have a wgs veteran 30 and an Et90 in a laney lionheart 212 cab. Love them.

Loved the cannabis Rex sound

I've got a Cannabis Rex and a V30 in a 2x12 extension cab. It sounds immense. I've also got an Eminence Wizard & an Eminence Governor in a 2x12 that sounds great, especially with overdrive.

The Eminence Texas Heat are my favorite. They sound warm and huge.

Interesting. I’m sitting in my truck with my phone plugged into the aux. fiddling with the fade as I play, I think I prefer the cannabis Rex and the vintage 30 together. Didn’t care for the WGS at all. I think if I was going to replace the speakers in my amp, I’d have to choose the vintage 30 and the Rex.

Have you done a studio tour yet? If not, that would be cool! 🔥🎸🔥

Cool video Darrell! If you do speaker comparisons in the future, you should compare the popular Eminence Texas Heat (American voiced) with the Governor (British voiced), and also blend them together. I've been very curious about this combo

Dude... where is the pacifica build that you talked about in the guitar collection video😂😂😂. Love the video man.

Hello Darrell, greeting from Central America!

The problem with mismatched speakers is the difference in SPL. unless it's one per channel, the louder speaker will overpower the weaker

Comparation has sense only when the samples follow one another in less than 10-15 sec. The bigger time gaps only good for showing your good guitar skills

Ive tried a few speaker combos in my 2x12 . A V30 and a G12H most recently but I put in two Fane F70's in my cab and I think I'm set now. I like two of the same speaker. In a 4x12 tho I will go Uberkab route and get two sets of speakers and go with the X pattern.

WOW!! Cool🤙🏻💗

I got 2 WGS Retro 30 and 2 of their Reaper 30 watt. It's a win especially if your amp is dark. I'd love to hear those 2 vs the V30 though, like this vid. Especially high gain 👍

Darrell you are wrong this time. The eminence and the vintage 30 together was the best combination in every way.

experimenting with this now, adding delay to the two after the fact really doesnt help judge the speakers though, but it sure sounds good!

Hello darrell ! you forget one configuration the canabis rex with the wgs on the same cab ! for sure it's sound very different together than one of these with the vintage celestion . interesting test ! thanks for the video ,take care ! be safe .

eddie van halen used both green backs and something like a jbl d120h speaker in his speaker cabinet, with the gren backs handling the mid and low end, while the jbls handeled the high end

I like to have two separate amps going. One clean, one really dirty. You can pan between the two on the recording or FOH side.

The first pair where awesome

In my homemade cabinet i have a vintage30 and a g12t75, together they give a balanced tone, less trebly than with two v30

I have a Gene Lies amp combo. Quite literally built in a barn in Kansas before my time, this has to be the best all-round amp I've ever owned. Yet there's not a good reason why. It's a pretty basic Plush amp circuit with a transformer coil to knock the hum down (which doesn't work, incidentally.) I suspect the reason behind its clarity comes from one simple fact: nobody would build an amp this way today. Modern combos, cabinets, and heads are the same in the sense there is an amp plugged directly into the speakers. The Gene Lies comes with two tweeters, two woofers, and two sub-woofers wired into a single, integrated whole. Capacitors and resistors pepper the circuit between the speakers to manage the signal before returning to ground. It means the blasted thing has about five pounds of noisy stuff and fifty pounds of wooden box holding the mess in place. It's a cube, three feet on a side, two switches on the back, one volume knob (which I've never had the stones to crank past 3 o'clock where my ears started bleeding), and a refrigerator handle to "carry" the thing around with. Convenient, it is not. However, plug anything into it from magnetic to piezo pickups and even microphones, and the sound is outrageously good. I've had amps that sound good with piezo and microphones, and I've had amps that work well with magnetic pickups. Never have I found one other than this Gene Lies that doe it all. Which brings me to this video. Would mixing the speakers in a 2x12 accomplish the same thing?

You forgot to mention that vintage 30 SCREAMS!!

Its interesting, its sound like running 2 amps, and you can do with pedal in A B and Mix

0:29 no, Darrell, the first step is having enough cash to buy all this stuff lol

Good comparison. Thanks. I must be weird as I've never liked the vintage 30 ? Sounds ice pickey to me at times? But I get it that lots of people love them. Cheers!

I dig two celestion greenbacks on top and two WGS Veteran 30s on the bottom of a 4x12 cab

really good video, i´m thinking of pairing a vintage 30 with an alnico cream..........

I like my celestion g12t-75w with a Jensen mod 12 70 which is bright.. Nice mix

Ive been looking around for some different speakers and I think I am going to go with the Vintage 30 and then maybe a Creamback H for my 2X12. If it doesn't work out, I might have to get a 4X12 Marshall Cabinet and stick in the Vintage 30m Creamback H, Alnico Creamback 90, and maybe this Hempback. I wonder what 4 different speakers in a cabinet would sound like? Or maybe even building 4 X12 size cabinet and putting in 2X12 on bottom and 2X10's on the top? Then maybe an offset cabinet with a 1X15. Maybe one day ill have to do that build. All these speaker ideas are making me want to do things. haha! Thanks for the video though!

i was surprised to hear the differences when singled out of all 3 speakers, proving why the V-30 is such a popular and widely used speaker.. i think the V-30 paired with the C-Rex had a great sound..

I am not sure I get it: For testing you run the two speakers from ONE cabinet in stereo!? - Which guitarist does that? I don't think this gives a comparable picture of the sound at all - and any sound will sound much bigger when you add stereo delay, as clearly was the case.

I am confident my ears are not as well "matched" as your microphones. Josh Smith talks about running into both a Fender Super and an AC30, he believes this combo results in the best blend. Doing this in a single cabinet is a little more within reach of most of us. thanks for making this.

Hi Darrell, I plan on buying my first good quality guitar amp soon and I was thinking about getting the tonemaster deluxe reverb. My budget is 1k, and would love to hear your suggestions. Great video btw :D

i'm sorry but the high-mid spike on that alnico is just too much! nothing's going to beat the feeling those first few clean chords brought being played through the celestion with the cannabis rex. just beautiful.

Two complementary dissimilar speakers can indeed sound huge. After auditioning a very large selection of speakers courtesy of Matamp's speaker wall, I settled on a Celestion G12H Anniversary paired with a G12M Heritage. Both have the same sensitivity (so neither dominates) and the same power handling. Here the similarities stop - the Anniversary is an articulate punchy speaker, whereas the Heritage has a complex, woody tone. They complement each other very well. The only downside of dissimilar speakers I can see is that they're more difficult to record. To my ears, the V30 is thin and harsh clean, and fizzy dirty (the WGS Alnico was even worse, bordering on the unpleasant with overdrive). For a sweet chimey tone, the Celestion G12M Heritage "Greenback" is very hard to beat, IMO. I wonder if people like V30s so much because they've lost some of their top-end hearing due to exposure to loud music?

Very nice video, but I was kind of disappointed not to hear the Cannabix Rex and the Alnico together... your Thumbnail kinda suggest that to be ideal pairing

For the sake of testing, have you tried direct line recording from the head? How does that compare to micing up a speaker?

Darrell Braun waking up Canada... yes, there is more to The Great White North than Celine Dion. MISSION CONTROL; Mission accomplished.

Hi Darrell, thanks for the video. Just checking on the Austrian Audio OC18s, don't they require phantom power? How did you provide the 48V when setting up the mics for the cabs? Or did you connect it through an interface? Any advise on this if I am in an area without an interface?

They both sound really nice, it'll just depend on the preference of the guitarist. I'm kinda imagining 4x12 cab with 4 different speakers😂

Darrell rules

C'mon Darrell,cannibus rex AND the alinco. You started this man,lol...

Fortunately, I don't need anything like this - I'm very happy with what I currently have - and even if I wanted a combo, I'd rather buy food, make the house payments, etc.

I think it would be a much better thing to do half hemp - on the inner circle of a speaker do normal paper and the outer circle do a hemp for bass /low mid articulation.

07:09 if you want to see a man totally enjoying the music that is coming from his heart.

Each speaker is beautiful in its own right. If possible use all three, Rex with each, 2 2x12s ....

Matchless have been doing this in their 2x12 combos for years. Changing speakers is just about the lowest cost and most effective ways of getting a better tone. BUT speaker efficiency will also play a BIG part in tone. Alnico magnet equipped speakers typically have higher efficiency than a ceramic magnet speakers so one speaker will likely contribute more to the tone than the other. Your mic's alone can't compensate for that.

I have a 2x12 vertical cab loaded with an Eminence Texas Heat and an Eminence Swamp Thang. Been that way for years. Sounds great. I tried the Swamp Thang with an Eminence CV-75, they clashed, not a good pairing.

that guitar is delicious! thank you. deciding whether to get rid of my cannabis rex, i haven't had success in a single cab w/ various amps. I do have a emi gov speaker that i have always wanted to blend with the c. rex. Especially in my Laney vc50r:alliance, as it's a british meets american style amp.. hmm!