Speaker from an old Fender StudioBass combo

Hog Branch · #1 02-20-2011, 11:15 PM

Anybody know anything about this speaker? It sounds great (to me anyway), and I've used it in three cabs now. Even my old 1955 Kay slapped thru a 500-watt head doesn't seem to kill this speaker. I couldn't find any info on it and was just curious. Thanks if you can tell me anything.

Here's its history the past three years (before that I cannot say):

This speaker was installed in a Fender StudioBass combo that I bought and later converted into a head. I removed the speaker and installed it for a year in a Mesa combo cabinet along with an Eden WT-550 head, and I used it for upright rockabilly and country gigs.

I recently sold the head and empty cab separately, so I took a few pics of the speaker as I was swapping it over into a Fender-labeled PA cab (seemingly made by Pyle with Fender cloth -- it appears to be 1970s or early 80s). The cab looks like a bassman cabinet but it has a mid-sized horn along with the 15. (I'd recently fried the original Pyle speaker and gave it to a friend who repairs speakers.) Anyway, the speaker sounds great in this cab too driven with an AMP BH-420 and upright bass (tho the horn is a little sizzley). That's all I know. Thanks!

lowend1 · #2 02-20-2011, 11:31 PM

Electro-Voice EVM15-B with Fender branding. Standard equipment in the Studio Bass.

Caca de Kick · #3 02-21-2011, 01:48 AM

Yup EV 15.

Someone local to me currently has one of those old Fender Studio Bass on the CL. Cool lookin' amp.

Hog Branch · #4 02-21-2011, 09:35 AM

Thanks, guys. I appreciate your input.

I thought it might be something different since I hadn't heard good things about standard Fender bass speakers. This one sounds killer with upright, though.

jastacey · #5 02-21-2011, 09:43 AM

Since that EV 15B has a cover/heatsink on the magnet assembly, it might have the 400 watt voice coil in it, but I know of no way to check for that .....

Hog Branch · #6 02-21-2011, 09:47 AM

I would guess that it does, because I regularly pushed it with at least 300 watts (solid state) from the Eden, and it was being pushed by 180 tube watts by the StudioBass before.

lowend1 · #7 02-24-2011, 02:51 PM

Back in '78, those were rated for 200 watts IIRC - I wouldn't push the envelope...

billfitzmaurice · #8 02-24-2011, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by jastacey

Since that EV 15B has a cover/heatsink on the magnet assembly, it might have the 400 watt voice coil in it, but I know of no way to check for that .....

It was the earlier 200w EVMs that had the heatsinks. In any event the xmax of the earlier and later versions was the same, so both would fart out at the same input. Which, BTW, was around 100 watts. That might seem low, but it's average for a fifteen.

jastacey · #9 02-24-2011, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by billfitzmaurice

It was the earlier 200w EVMs that had the heatsinks. In any event the xmax of the earlier and later versions was the same, so both would fart out at the same input. Which, BTW, was around 100 watts. That might seem low, but it's average for a fifteen.

The EVM 15B Proline had the Heatsinks and were rated for 400 watts RMS ...... I agree that it is an obsolete speaker, for the price of the recone, you could get a Eminence 3015

billfitzmaurice · #10 02-24-2011, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by jastacey

The EVM 15B Proline had the Heatsinks and were rated for 400 watts RMS ...

Perhaps. My first EVM circa 1974 had a sink. All those I saw towards the end of their production didn't.