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08-12-2010, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Soest, the Netherlands | | | In search of that 90's Ampeg tone
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Hi,
I'm fairly new here.
What a great resource this is!
I'm trying to find out what kind of speakers Ampeg used in their pro cabinets in the late 90's, before the chinese production started. I've been told they were called just Ampeg pro speakers with an Ampeg label on them, but what brand were they? Someone also mentioned the same kind of speakers were used in the Eden cabs during that time.
I just love that sound. Accurate, loud and solid. A good friend of mine has a selfmade 2x10" cab with 2 ampeg pro speakers and it sounds so good. He knows a lot about ampeg, but couldn't tell me what the brand of his speakers are. Did Ampeg made these their own? I've been tempted to buy just 2 Eminence Legend bp102 speakers for the cab I'd like to build, but I fear that they won't deliver me that true pounding bass sound.
I'm sure there must be someone around here who knows more about this...  |
08-12-2010, 02:32 PM
|  | Making short stories long since 1977©. | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Loxahatchee, Fl | | | Ampeg's tone is more about the amp than the cab, but put the best speakers in a poorly built cab and it will sound like a wet fart.
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08-12-2010, 02:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Soest, the Netherlands | | | I'm planning to build the cab very accurate with 3-4cm thick birch multiplex. The same as my 412 orange clone cab.
My friend uses an Eden Traveller in combination with the his 210 cab and sounds truely astonishing! |
08-12-2010, 03:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: St. Louis | | | Some people here will fight to the death maintaining that new Ampegs sound EXACTLY like old Ampegs. My opinion, if you want 90s Ampeg tone, get a 90s Ampeg.
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08-12-2010, 03:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: South Florida | | + 1 on the thought that Ampegs sound is about the head first. I bought an SvT400T from the bay a while back ( $400). Its solid state and about 20 years old. I read reviews about this head being a proto-type for the 4PRO. It is 200watts per channel but it has no trouble powering an 810E or a 410HLF. Maybe you can luck out and find a head similar to this one from the 90's....  |
08-12-2010, 03:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | We have had some long discussions regarding 810 cab speakers and the cab's construction materials and design changes. These discussions were rather in-depth, included pictures, model numbers of different speakers and opinions from the more knowledgeable people on TB regarding AMPEG tone.
Try searching for these threads, don't stop until you find them, they were all from this year or started maybe fall of 09 and ended this year.
Also AMPEG TONE, the two main components of the sound are the PREAMP and the CAB. The amps can be totally transparent if you have the other two items working like they should.
BOB
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08-12-2010, 03:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RNV  Ampeg's tone is more about the amp than the cab, but put the best speakers in a poorly built cab and it will sound like a wet fart. | Yup
MDF = MuDFart
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08-12-2010, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RNV Ampeg's tone is more about the amp than the cab | I've always felt the opposite  |
08-12-2010, 04:11 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | you guys are all crazy...it's the preamp, power section, cab and speakers 
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08-12-2010, 04:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | I thought it was all in your fingers Jimmy?
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08-12-2010, 04:20 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rbonner I thought it was all in your fingers Jimmy? | fingers gotta plug stuff in and turn knobs
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08-12-2010, 04:22 PM
|  | Domo Arigato, Listen to Nagato.
Records of Existence/PyrE owner | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: wes virginny | | | well, by now Jimmys' fingers are probably dripping full of ampeg tone!
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08-12-2010, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by eyeballkid well, by now Jimmys' fingers are probably dripping full of ampeg tone! | they're dripping, but not because of that
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08-12-2010, 04:30 PM
| | Domo Arigato, Listen to Nagato.
Records of Existence/PyrE owner | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: wes virginny | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM they're dripping, but not because of that | bad day with the soldering iron huh?
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08-13-2010, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by eyeballkid bad day with the soldering iron huh? | um, yeah, sure, that's it
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