Don't listen to the internet and other people.. if it sounds good to you that's what matters.

There’s this sense of clarity even when dirty with those new speakers.

Love the sound as well as your playing as always. Since I'm "old" I will share an "old school" tip for better tone at lower volume. A bellari mp110 tube mic preamp is made for microphones, but has both xlr and 1/4 " umputs and works magic used after your pedals but just before the amp. It has gain, volume 20 db pad, phase reverse, and phantom pwr, which you won't need, but makes a sweet, controllable overdrive that will even make a solid state amp sound good. It's a cheap accessory that I will never go without since learning about it. I bought mine to use for solo gigs, so I could put a vocal mic into my amp and play alone without too much gear. Just tried it for the guitar once and blew my mind.

It's def a lot mellower sound, not as harsh. I think it's some of the best tones I've heard on this channel.

Omg that first tone at 3:12.. definitely “Under The Bridge” tone . Stunning.

You play really really well. No show off just music. And the sound of corse is amazing.

That's such a gorgeous sound!

The rule is {ohm x ohm} divided by (ohm + ohm). In this case you mentioned two 8 ohm speakers so: 8x8 divided by 8+8 64*16= 4 ohms- so the rule is the ohms of the power amp side (2 ohms) must be equal to or smaller than the speaker load, in this case 4 ohms (two 8 ohm speakers equals 4 ohms). How I remember this is a river emptying into a lake. The power(2 ohms) is the river and the speakers ( 4 ohms) the lake. The lake must be equal to or larger than the river or the water (current- water current/electric current) starts to back up as it cannot empty fast enough into the lake. Let's say for example you had a 4 ohm power amp but the speakers, the lake, was only 2 ohms. The lake is smaller than the river and the power will back up the river to the head and burn up the amp. A 2 ohm river (head) flowing to a 4 ohm lake (speakers) is just fine! By the way, genius is the ability to make complex things simple! Thank you. Papa J

I think I might have chimed in already on your Instgram feed about my experience with installing a Celestion Alnico Blue 12" speaker in my 1966 Deluxe Reverb when those speakers came out. I was simply blown away with the character of that speaker. It had an incredible bottom end , almost piano like, with a throaty midrange and a sweet top end after it got broken in. It sounded amazing at low volumes and fantastic when pushed. I had tried numerous different style 12" speakers and none had the character of the Celestion Alnico Blue.

The Deluxe Reverb is an impedance mismatch from the factory, they all still work if not abused and maintained. They were designed like that to run either single or dual speakers at a 25% mismatch either way. A 50% mismatch going up in impedance is safe-ish, going down is asking for trouble, especially at 1ohm.

7 minutes of describing the way something sounds and 60 seconds of actually hearing how it sounds. Gotta love gear reviews.

Love the sounds in this video, saw it more than a year later but better late than never. Awesome job, great playing as always and HUGE tone, man!

Great speaker....I have a friend that has the celestion gold 10 in a Princeton reverb. Amazing tone in a little portable amp.

Celestion Golds whether 10’s or 12’s are my favorite speakers. I have them in a Vibrolux, my Bad Cat, my Princeton Reverb, my VOX AC15 (that has the Cream Alnico) and now after this Virus thing is over and I can get to gigging, I’m going to try two Golds and two Cream ceramics in my Super Reverb. I have two friends that have been running 2 x 12’s in a their Super Reverb. It’s funny youve brought this video out when I getting ready to put the Golds in my Super. I talked with my amp tech before about it. He said that running at 4 ohms shouldn’t be a problem. If you were running four JBL’s in a Super that would be extremely heavy. Those JBL’s are close to 10 lbs each. The Gold 10’s are about 6 lbs. the Cream are about 3 1/2 pounds.

That riff in the beginning… love it. Wish you had some tabs for it! As your tone …amazing!!!

I'm 65 and about 25years ago I bought a moded 65 super reverb that they skillsawd the cab off for $110.Then I put it in the closet for 23 years.Finally got it restored back to original circuit.After 20 years of hauling a 4x10 around I also decided to make a 2x10 . Armadillo Amp Works(nice guy) made me a beauty cab the same height as a Deluxe and 2" wider to fit the SR. Hard to find 4ohm 10" speakers I loaded it a 25 watt Weber alnico and Ferromax. Don't like the sound quality,will sell 4ohm Weber speakers cheap! Going to try the Warehouse vintage 4ohm 10s next. Love this channel been into this since 1968 Thanks Matthew!

Sounds amazing! My favorite tone from any of your videos so far! Very rich and organic tone at low volume. You can really hear the guitar and the amp and they sound so great by themselves, you can get away from the never ending need to tweak with pedals.

Thats what the JBL D120s were for . Smooth tone and low end . You got a good tone bud .I always wanted a Fender Twin with D120 s .

Alnico sounds perfect in a princeton too. Perfect low volume sound for recording and proper rehearsals. They sound even better after a few months of use. If you want to save a bit of dough the Newer Jensen Alnicos are vvv close indeed to this, they also need a "running in" period , I used my Fender proreverb with a Jensen P12Q as my "Jukebox" to speed up the running in. 2 to 3 weeks playing 1 hr a day , 20hrs maybe 30.

According to Greg Gagliano in Vintage Guitar Magazine, Fender sometimes issued mismatches from the factory during transitional phases like using up the transformers from the Bassman 6G6 in the Bassman 6G6A in 1961 into 1962 and also in the 3X10 Bandmasters that shipped with 8 ohm transformers.

A Celestion type speaker will DEFINITELY help out a fender circuit. It adds more midrange and has less flub. Weber makes a GREAT 10” Alnico that is a cross between a P10R and a Alnico Gold,basically. It’s the 125P. I put one in an AA764 Champ build I did recently and it really made the overdrive more “solid” for lack of a better term but the cleans are still pretty much the same. It’s much less expensive speaker than an actual Celestion too. Cool video btw! I always enjoy your playing.

Great Philip Sayce tone!

Great tone. Reminds me of my dad's hi-fi console as a kid, full yet still has enough clarity for that wonderful fender chime.

Sounds great. Brings in just the smallest amount of clarity that you needed.

I have the same speaker combo except they’re the 12” alnico gold. And 12” JBL E-120 in a twin reverb reissue i I converted to a super reverb, (new transformers , now tube rectified. Hand wired , and what a mind fuck pain in the ass but let me tell you it’s the sweetest sounding amp I’ve ever plugged into. Each of these speakers sound great on their own but they sound i amazing when paired, especially w/ single coils. You Sir are a phenomenal guitar player btw , and thank you for the videos

I have Celestion Alnico speakers in every amp I own(around 10 amps..). I think Alnico Celestions are the best speakers made(some of mine are 60+ years old!).

I have a Mojotone speaker cab with a Celestion Gold Alnico and Celestion Creamback both 10". I run my 1973 Deluxe Reverb through the cab when recording. I really like that combo. :)

That is absolutely outstanding !! I could hear "little wing " coming out of this rig and sounding great...Awesome amp !!

I just scored a modern Super Reverb cab with four-Celestion G10’s for $450. Talk about lucky! They are fantastic speakers!

Very warm, like it. Like putting vintage 30s in a marshall...huge difference.

Super Reverb 2ohm transformers, as long you don't go below 2 0hms it won't blow, the higher the ohms less headroom, more distortion, that extra speaker Jack got a lot of transformers, amp at max load then they add more speakers load drops more, then frying starts blown. Great sound

Just wanted to say ive been really enjoying your playing and knowledge of vintage fender stuff! Ive actually had a couple people tell me fender amps with greenbacks are great! definitly its own thing.. but worth trying

Matthew, you created a new sound. Beautiful warm, not so much treble. greetings from Germany 💥😎🎸⚠️☮️

I had a 1966 super Reverb and I did exactly what you did. I put the head in a 2x10 cabinet and there was an ohmage mismatch but it never damaged the amplifier and it sounded killer! So you're good man.

Digging that intro way more than any srv stuff that was amazing

Fender amps are somewhat forgiving. Generally you can half or double the speaker impedance. After all, they give you an extension speaker jack. Do not use it now. By cutting the speaker impedance in half you reduced the reflective impedance in the primary increasing current in the output tubes. This will lessen tube life a bit, lower power and decrease bandwidth. BTW, the output jack actually shorts out the transformer when the speakers are unplugged. This is to protect the transformer. Also speaker impedance varies. You can’t measure it with an ohm meter. That will give you coil resistance. I believe speaker impedance is determined at 400 hz. Research reflective impedance if you care to learn more. I learned this over 50yrs ago in trade school so I can’t get too technical. I’m surprised I remember anything at all. Sounds good. Like your demo.

Love the t shirt man!

For what’s its worth Matt, the amp should handle it either way but when you use the ext jack you lower the impedance load. It adds in parallel.

This sounds like a winning combination. Sounds fantastic! Nice job!

Your tone is so raspy! I love it

My opinion, sounds great. Ive considered a gold but sticking with jensen for the time being. As far as your 2ohn nominal into a 4 ohm cab, your amp is safe. I wouldn't go the other way though ever. My understanding is that the fender external speaker and speaker outputs are run parallel so you can run a second 4ohm cab and your amp will then be running at nominal 2 ohm. Personally, I build my own cabs with pine and i always use 1/2 inch birch ply for the baffles.

The G10 is such an amazing speaker. I foolishly sold it because I didn’t have a 10” cab but I’ve been wanting it since I sold it.

Sweet and bright and full and balanced. Very nice and good job on the amp too!

Sounds great. A brighter tone for sure.

I put a Celestion AlNiCo Gold in my Princeton Reverb RI 10 years ago and it's been my main amp ever since.

Just took the celestion g10s out of my Allen Encore (Vibrolux reverb type amp) I like the CTS 10 inch alnico I have in there a lot more. Lighter in weight, less efficient, and more mellow with smoother highs to my ears. Great speaker!

Cool, I learned why the reverb tank is at the bottom of my combo, it must be away from the tranfo to prevent noise.

The Celestion Golds are probably the best thing they make ... much more complex frequencies coming out of those things (I've only heard YT comparisons). Your amp will survive the mismatch.

The speaker sounds great! I don’t think you’ll have a problem with the ohms difference. I have quite a few friends who have done this before.

Man oh man, thats a deep crunchy tone Matt

The amp.. the speaker all sound just about perfect- what a tone.

It’s funny how the super reverb is the holy grail yet they are always for sale. Then it’s time for a 2-10 lol ! The Jenson, Jupiter, and the gold are my favourite 10’s

This could be the nicest strat tone I've ever heard!!!!

Absolutely beautiful sound! Amazing video as always Matt.

Fender amplifiers can tolerate a 100% impedance mismatch in either direction. So if it’s rated for 8 ohms, it can safely be loaded with 16 ohms or 4 ohms. (Source : Skip Simmons - Truth About Vintage Amps Podcast)

Love your channel

Just FYI, the secret to getting less hum from the reverb tank in a head, is to flip it around. Instead of the rca racks on the tank being towards the back of the cab, flip the tank so the jacks face the grill clothe. Built two vibroverb heads, and this is how I solved the same problem.

Hey Matt maybe releasing another song would make this quarantine a whole lot easier 😳😳

Very cool, mellow sounds Matthew. Looking forward to seeing the next lot of guitars. Thanks for sharing 😀🎸 PEACE

Those golds do sound good. I'm an amp tech. It's totally fine to run that mismatch provided your amp is in good working order and biased correctly. Stay safe.

Did you get rid of your LP Junior?? That guitar was killer

Love the tone

My kid has one of these speakers and it sounded awful at first, could have been the amp choice or may have taken a while for break-in, not sure, amp was sold but it is now is a homebuilt 1x10 pine cab and connected to a fender-like home-built amp and sounds like magic. Was planning on different speaker in that cab, not anymore, not sure it will ever leave. Building a Fender Princeton combo that was going to get it, may buy another it seems, may try a greenback 10 just to compare.

that is wicked sounding. Stay safe Matt

Nice content as always, Matthew. Not the same model Celestion, but I selected a G10 Vintage for my Pre-CBS blackface Princeton Reverb. I was risking hurting the original Fender-branded Oxford so after a couple wrong turns with different replacements, I settled on the G10 Vintage after seeing Jim Campilongo praise it on a KZfaq video. He's a big Princeton enthusiast and his simple assessment is that the G10 "is affordable and sounds great instantly" (exact quote). I especially liked the latter part of that description. My playing time is more limited these days and I really need something to be "right" ASAP.

2 ohms into 4 not a problem. I got a 2x10 cab made at 16 ohms so I could run either a 72 deluxe or an AC15. As long as your amp isn’t higher than your combined speaker load you aren’t hurting the amp.

While I could listen to you noodle at light speed all day, the melodies you were churning out this time were a welcome change.

Celestion Gold is one of my favs. Both 12" and 10".

Bro, that sounded great...thank you for putting this out cause I'm in a speaker debate internal as well, so I'm loving seeing a speaker video. Much 405 respect

a very good sound!

I did the same speaker combination in my Dr Z MAZ18Jr 2x10" amp. It was actually first done by Matchless amplifiers where they would put in alnico speaker in a ceramic magnet speaker in the same combo amp. The effects are stunning! Great video dude and great playing as well keep up the good work! Your friend Jim from Seattle!

Wow, Amazing video, please make more

Having a cab with two dissimilar drivers works well. I just got my new 2x12 Bill Fitzmaurice designed cab and I stuffed it with one new Greenback and one 12 inch Eminence out of an organ. They break up at different rates and it’s really nice.

Your tone sounded sweeter with that speaker, me thinks. I use the Celestion Gold G10 with my Vox amp and it sounds great. Great speaker.

That's Damn nice, Matthew. It's not going to explode. It sounds very much like a Princeton reverb but full.

I built a 2X10 cab with a WGS G10C & G10S (ribbed cone & smooth cone) ... I'm very pleased with the tone

Sounds great. Low volume is perfect. I run my Fender amps between 3 to 4. I have a "red knob twin, reissue custom vibrolux, and a Dr. Z. Don't need to blow your ear drums. That's a great tone you have.

Sits between SRV and Eric Johnson, perfect sound!

Funny. I keep referencing your tone to calibrate my ears. Hours spent tweaking my gear and the next day I wonder what I was thinking... Guessing the gigs might be thin on the ground for a few months but keep the videos coming. Always enjoy them.

Late, but that intro was something else man. Seriously, that was beautiful.

My 2x10 super is my go to. I have the original 4x10 and also run it in a 1x15 with a 2ohm Weber Chicago. The 2x10 just has a pair of eminence legends in it but they still sound great. Don’t worry about the mismatch, I’ve played countless hours on it and have thrown lots of fuzz and od at it and never once had an issue.

Good on ya, young man. what you experience now is changing from a high power, heavy mass (cone, suspension, voice coil ) speaker chassis to a light mass, faster responding chassis. Back in the day a Highwatt 4x12 speaker used four 20 watt FANE chassis and sounded killer even at low volumes and with a 50 watt head. The secret: low mass fast response. Try to get one of those 70s FANEs cheap on eBay and learn ...you’ll be amazed. You may use, however, any vintage, low wattage PA speaker chassis from the late sixties to mid 70s, be it Eminence, CBS, Evoice and the like for almost identical tonal qualities. Try and grow with it.

Yeah for me nothing can touch a celestion blue, and the gold is the same thing, just more output. The chime is heavenly

Fender amps are pretty forgiving with output impedance, especially so if you're keeping the volume/output below half. It should be OK although you might find you're running through tubes a little quicker.As with all things your mileage may vary. Great idea for a combo, way to go Matthew.

I put a G12 gold in my fender hot rod deluxe and loved the way it sounded... real fierce growling mid-range

This is the start of the path to heavy use of a Princeton Reverb

Love these speakers! I have a 12 inch gold in a Kingsley Bailey 30 (A hand wired el84 amplifier made up here in Canada) and it sounds amazing. Records very well too. Awesome idea Matthew! The only thing that has kept me away From super reverbs is the size and weight, but I love them when they are back lined.

Another great video. Remember that rated impedance is a nominal, average value that may vary rather dramatically with frequency. Don't be too concerned about its factory rating.

Listen to your ear brotha....if that makes sense, but yes, your ears are telling you the truth, sounds great...hope your staying safe and healthy....🙏🏻

Sounds great in all pickup positions. Not the slightest bit harsh. Nice combo

hey matt, any tips on those extremely fast pentatonic runs? great video as always man! EDIT: oh yeah, also a lesson on your sorta "new" style of playing which is more melodic.

Really nice sound! And I love how you study up then jump into the job to get 'er done. Good for you man👍🏻

Sounds silky smooth. Love it.

Sound on point, thx Matthew

Hey man that’s my SHIRT!! Saw em in Portland. Great show. Beautiful tone.

Alnico Celestion speakers are great. Really like their sound. Your performance in the video sounded rich with a good amount of bass...thought it sounded really clear, and rich. The other advantage of only running the amp at 3 or 4, is being able really get the most out of pedals. You have nothing but headroom. Try stacking your overdrive or fuzz in front now?

That amp sounds so sweet! I love that speaker combination.

Hey ! As far as your Ohms go, 2x the load your amp wants to see, you're safe. The tone might differ slightly from the matching combination, (Dr Z did a video on that) but for the rest, you're OK. I have a mismatch on a VOX 8 Ohms through a Celestion CreamBack 16 Ohms and it works/sounds great. When I push it, the breakup comes a bit earlier and the tone is a tad more spongy. Sounds just great ! Keep safe & peace bro ;-)

Always wanted to try Celestions but now I really want to try them.

Sounds fantastic man,