speaker wattages

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:13 pm

just about to bite the bullet and stick a new speaker in my blues deluxe. never done this before, but seems straight forward.

my question is, will it be ok to use a celestion vintage 30 watt with my 40 watt blues deluxe. or should i go for something higher wattage for better headroom.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:15 pm

something higher. it's not so much headroom that's the problem. a 30 watt speaker is just not rated to operate at 40 watts so there's a possibility it could fail.

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:15 pm

I put a Vintage 30 in my Hot Rod Deluxe and haven't had any problems, but then I don't think i've ever taken the volume past 3 and it goes up to 12.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:18 pm

Do you mean a "Vintage 30" speaker? Because they are rated at 60W, or another 30W vintage celestion of some sort?

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:23 pm

fuck. i've got myself muddled again.

http://www.hotroxuk.com/celetion-vintag ... 956-0.html
it's that one. it's 60 watts (thanks thom)

what's the best way to bed them in? is it gonna sound shit for a while?

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:26 pm

When I fitted mine it sounded fine from the off, but then I was replacing the stock speaker that I thought sounded like poo. It does however sound better the more you play it at volume. Take it to band practice and crank up loud for a few weeks, if your band complain about the volume tell them it's necessary to run the speaker in and to get over it.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:30 pm

Progrockabuse wrote:fuck. i've got myself muddled again.

http://www.hotroxuk.com/celetion-vintag ... 956-0.html
it's that one. it's 60 watts (thanks thom)

what's the best way to bed them in? is it gonna sound shit for a while?

No worries.
Lots of clean open chords at decent volume to get the cone moving is what I have heard.
If you have a looper pedal all the better - just leave it running for a bit.
It shouldn't sound awful to start with but might be a bit brittle. A few good long band practices and you'll be there.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:32 pm

that happens a lot at band practise. my blues deluxe cuts through anything. hoping the extra headroom will help with the clean channel. the strat tends to get it to break up a little around 3/4.

the brittleness i can live with, if it gives way to nice full sounding fenderness.

omari · Post by **omari** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:22 pm

you can get 'em already broken in from avatar . they also have regular celestions cheaper than most places.

TieDye · Post by **TieDye** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 11:52 pm

Always replace a speaker with one rated above the output RMS of the amp. So, if the amp puts out 60 watts RMS, I'd put a 75 or 100 watter in there. If you put a 200 watter in there it won't get driven enough to really make it talk.