You're more than welcome, my friend! But we're gotta thank Nolly here!

i want a heart as well

@@KohleAudioKult Yes! Indeed

What speakers for a 4x10 cab for a do it all sound would you choose?

Is there a proper way to break in a speaker? A way to push it or them to the voice you have in mind?

@@tobins6800 this is a key question, we get it every other day... I don't want to "steal the show" from Nolly, however, I think this is useful information. We (Jensen Speakers) do NOT recommend ANY procedure to speed up or force the break in process. At least, if you don't REALLY know what you're doing, and you haven't test equipment available to monitor the speaker status. And here's why: If you feed a speaker with a signal, be it a sweep or white noise or music, for a continued, uninterrupted amount of time, the speaker will move accordingly and will build up heat, even if the amplitude of the signal is relatively low. It will never have even a few fractions of a second to allow the voice coil to cool down. This is likely the most dangerous situation for a voice coil. Once overheated over a certain point, the damage done is just non-reversible. On the contrary, any style of guitar playing will allow some pauses in between one pick strum and the next one. Even some high gain palm-muted rhythm patterns will allow milliseconds of silence in between strokes. This reduces the heat build-up. Therefore, we recommend to PLAY the speaker. Let's say 30 hours to make it playable, and maybe the classic 100 hours to have it cooked right. You may want to record a loop of guitar playing, and send it to the amp, at a reasonable volume. You don't really need to blast it. Maybe face the cab against a wall or a closet, maybe cover the cab with blankets or anything that will reduce the volume in the room, to avoid being screamed to by the wife or the neighbors. Finally, in our experience, there is no way to "push a speaker to a specific voice". The speaker has its own voice. Breaking in will loosen the moving parts (surrounds, spider, membrane, etc.) allowing for a fatter, warmer, more organic bass and mid response. It will not really change the response on the treble range, but because of the improvement on bass and mids, the whole curve will sound naturally tilted in favor of a warmer, less aggressive tone. Hope this helps!

@@JensenSpeakersVideos whoa. A ton of info, and a huge thank you for that information.

@@tobins6800 My pleasure!!!

Hey Ignazio, awesome of you to step in! If your early 90s V30 is anything like the ones I've tried I'd definitely agree it's a more classic tone. To me they have a lot of the qualities that the Kurt Mueller coned black-back G12s of the late 70s are known for, with a brighter and more aggressive top end, and less mid. In fact I have a pair of '77 T1511 G12M25s (444 cone) that sound very much in the same family as the early 90s 16ohm V30s I have, just a bit higher in timbre and with more "fizz". Those early V30s (or more usually Marshall Vintage models) are very much responsible for the hard rock guitar tones of the late 80s/early 90s that are often attributed to "Greenbacks" or G12-65s - you can hear Bob Rock talk in several interviews about how he would always use V30s cabs back in those days. Additionally it's rumoured Slash's tone on Appetite for Destruction (and maybe others too?) was the product of that speaker too. Definitely a great sound and a long way away from the modern production V30 or indeed the much darker speakers that appeared in 2000 when the cone ribs became less sharp-edged and prominent so I would put a lot of confidence in the theory there was a change in the cone manufacturing procedure in the KM factory right around then. So glad you agree about the comb filtering/standing wave issue in straight cabs or bottom speakers of angled cabs. As you say, it's not present in open or ported cabs. Also smaller 2x12 and 1x12 cabs tend to suffer much less due to the increased relative stiffness of the smaller baffle dimensions. Agreed about consistency, and in fact I had intended to say in this interview that while the OEM Mesa Boogie V30s might share the same recipe as other UK-made V30s (and Chinese ones too barring the different glue used) it could well be there is simply a narrower tolerance in place for components in the Mesa speakers. Thanks so much for weighing in, it's great to be able to chat about this stuff with others in the know.

Yeah he's so soft spoken, great pronunciation, lots of vocabulary. He sounds like a British gentlemen.

Cause he's not american

He should put out a spoken word album of him talking about V30s. I'd fall asleep to it.

This is a very underrated comment if I ever saw one lol

You win the internet today. Thank you.

V Sauce seems a little depressed in this vid.

Angled all the way!

Uhhhh Johan Segborn....

+1

@kohleaudiokult where are you? Slanted vs straight? 😊

this is probably why i prefer semi-open back so much. much more consistent midrange. even if it softens the bass a little. especially on stage, that midrange is so much more more important to me than the projection

@@xsonicassassinx you know the old saying: If it sounds good, it sounds good! That's the beauty of guitar cabs vs other instruments, it's expected to have a character of it's own and linearity is usually not the main goal. It's cool to understand the mechanics and math behind everything, but in the end what matters is if it sounds good.

@@sykocustomcabinets3712 do you find slants record better??

Wait I’m a noob. Are these standing waves and whatnot considered “bad” or just another flavor of sound?

@@snapascrew Yes. Slant your entire speaker mounting board and set the bottom speakers higher up in a larger cab so there is not a 'kink' in the corner along bottom.

it's funny that this was such a mystery. i have such a STRONG distaste for greenbacks that the first online demo i saw, when they clicked to cab 2 i said "ew, greenback". when you don't like something, you can always taste it in your food haha

Also… nice to see nolly confirm what I’ve been saying forever, the Marshall cabs have more low end ;)

I have watched some of your speaker videos! Great content! 🍺👹

I have the same in a line 6/Bogner cab. My personal favorite speaker combo!

I too am a Vintage 30 fan/nutbar. I like the Mesa version of the V30, somewhat darker with that distinct V30 mid grind and growl. Cheers!

Same! Mine are August 2001

The Veteran is a good speaker but can’t replace a great V30. There’s a video on this channel where I show it.

Could you do a video on these speakers

Nice, I assume that means your slant cab is around serial C-33xxx? For what it’s worth Mesa only started making straight-baffle cabs in 2006

Yes Sir! C3355x. I did not know that about the straight cabs, thank you and again great video.

@@jeffyoung8047 Lovely, that's a fine vintage, I bet it sounds fantastic.

​@@adamnollygetgood5545 I know you won't probably reply to this, but I have to ask! what about a Mesa 4x12 OS slanted cab with serial C315xx? I think it should have been made around 2000 or something, right? Is it too early or is it as good as the ones in best range (2002-2003)? Thanks again mate, keep up your great work as always!

I also just picked up an oversize slant Mesa and opened it up to find Feb 2002 speakers. I got lucky. serial is c422xx

which video was that?

@@KohleAudioKult kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLdoaLuJ19-7p2g.html