Flannelette grill covering

[Supa Scoopa]

I've got an old Peavey 2x15 but the grill is stuffed, its bent. I want to put something over the speakers, as they are naked right now.

Would using 2 thing extra large flannies work? As in, does anyone know if it'll be too muffled or not. I thought it'd be funny to use flannelette

[JimmyM]

yeah, funny until you hear it. flannel is way too thick for grillcloth.

[Supa Scoopa]

Decided I'm gonna go with flannel and cut out holes for the speakers and use a thinner material to cover the speaker holes.

[Bard2dbone]

My faorite thing I've seen someone use for a grill cloth was pieces of old concert Tshirts, all sewn together like a quilt, but kind of randomly.


Okay, that was way less coherent than I wanted it to be. I saw a guy with an 8x10 cab that had a grill cloth made of several irregularly shaped pieces of old concert Tshirts. They kind of looked like someone took a stack of magazines and dropped them on the floor and then copied the shapes that the magazines landed in. And there was no way that the same person had attended all of the shows involved. It had a Pink Floyd shirt from Animals and a Metallica one from Kill Em All.

They didn't even all feature the whole graphic on the front of the shirt. Most had most or all of the graphic. Some didn't. One piece even looked like the tour date list from the back of the shirt.

It was pretty awesome, but definitely labor intensive to make.

[::::BASSIST::::]

If you use regular fabric as a grill cloth its going to start to sound distorted at anything near medium volume.

You can either buy the proper grill cloth or get a metal grill made for your cab. Or you can buy those grills that only cover the speaker. In fact thats probably what I would do.

[will33]

Grillcloth or metal grates are close to being "acoustically transparent", t-shirts and flannel are not. If you want to do it anyway, tape the cloth over the speakers first and see what it does to the sound both close up and farther back at medium to loud volume first. It would be akin to draping a blanket over your speakers, the thicker the blanket or the more dense the cloth weave, the more muffled.

[Bard2dbone]

I didn't notice any particular muffling from the guy with the Tshirt-grilled cab. But then again it was only at club volume. I can't speak to how much effect it might have at louder volumes. I can only speak to the 'cool' factor of it, which was excessive.

[lbwdog]

High frequencies would be most affected by acoustically non-transparent material. You may or may not notice much difference with a 2x15 cab, depending on the actual material.

Personally, I'd go with something designed for the job. The esoteric novelty of flannel will wear off, and probably not be as impressive as you might think.

My next custom cab will have a dark oxblood covering with a cane look grill.

[D.M.N.]

I put a U.S. flag on as my grill, it looks cool and sounds fine. But flannel is a lot thicker......

[interstatejoe]

Originally Posted by D.M.N.

I put a U.S. flag on as my grill, it looks cool and sounds fine. But flannel is a lot thicker......

I did the same with a pirate flag...it's pretty thin nylon so it has little/no effect on the sound.

The t-shirt grill Bard2dbone mentioned sounds pretty sweet, might have to start on a new project....

[D.M.N.]

Originally Posted by interstatejoe

I did the same with a pirate flag...it's pretty thin nylon so it has little/no effect on the sound.

The t-shirt grill Bard2dbone mentioned sounds pretty sweet, might have to start on a new project....

D@yum, I should have bought a pirate flag.............

[interstatejoe]

Originally Posted by D.M.N.

D@yum, I should have bought a pirate flag.............

Definitely added lots of attack...along with a good dose of pillaging and plundering.