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The Gold at 5:12 and 13:15 sums up why I think its not a great speaker, there is almost a mechanical buzz in the speaker when driven.
The blue was disappointing, would have been interesting if he had a new blue to try too.
The scumback was meh, There is something honky in the mids on some sound samples
Silver #4 was the worst of the silvers with the recone
I think out of the remaining silvers the #3 was the best followed by #2 and I would stick both of those in the AC30.
I've never been wowed by Golds or Blues in any demos I've listened to and the Scumback wasn't tweaking my nipples at all, along with silver 4.
I thought all samples with the Les Paul sounded better.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
The reconed silver was a bit of a shame. Thought the blue was quite muffled sounding. The scumback was more different to the silvers than the gold was, I think it's interesting how much forum panache it has as being authentically vintage, it just sounded a bit raspy/ fizzy to my ears in comparison.
I agree, would have been nice to have a modern blue in there as well.
The gold, I have quite a lot of experience with. In some contexts I prefer it to a blue (LOVE it in a marshall combo), but where a blue/silver sounds just right it'll usually sound too boomy down low and metallic up top to me.
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I'm not certain what's going on with the Blue since they don't normally sound like that to me, and in fact don't sound substantially different from original Silvers.
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I did have a gold once though and sold it because I didn't really love it. But I was playing a tweed deluxe then and didn't love that either!
I had a Gold too - it didn't sound as brash to me as it does in the clip, but I also didn't love it. To me it sounded quite like an 'alnico V30' - I had both in the same 2x12", so was able to directly compare them - the Gold was slightly brighter but also smoother, it didn't have the crunch of the V30. Overall not terrible, but not that inspiring either. I also heard it in a tweed-type amp and it sounded horrible! But the amp was not much better with a speaker I love, the Heritage G12H-30.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein