So do you think that the 18W breakup sound will be lost or attenuated by using a 150W rated Eminence instead of a 30W Celestion? I would have thought that some of this sound was due to the speaker (as well as amp) breakup/distortion?zaphod_phil wrote:That's a great link. Thanks for sharing it. My one comment is that in the article I think they're somewhat overemphasizing the clean Hiwatt amp story, as a lot of folks do. Dave Gilmour has the 12AT7 PI tube of his early 70s Hiwatts swapped out for a 12AX7, which makes the amp breakup sooner. BTW this is also the casse with Pete Townshend's CP103s. So DG's pedal distortion is also mixed with some natural tube amp breakup. The edgy breakup of an 18W Marwatt amp actually isn't too far off the edgy distortion of a Hiwatt.
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Rob