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Welp I don’t know if this is the right place for guitar pickup issues but my telecaster neck pickup just died on me because the hot wire to the pickup selector was very loose and just…came off.

There was no salvaging the hot and ground leads so I disassembled the pickup to find this contraption. I don’t know how this got the pickup to work but that’s just me.
 

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I bought a cheap Marshall Origin angled 212 cabinet a year or so ago when I was still living in an apartment. I wasn't trying to spend a lot and it fit the budget. It came with Celestion Seventy 80 speakers. It sounded fine at the low volumes I could play in an apartment but I still mostly used headphones and never cranked it so I didnt disturb my neighbors.

Recently, I moved into a house where I could crank everything a little and, at jam volume, those speakers sounded like warm doodoo butter. I figured it was a good time to learn to swap out speakers.

I mostly play metal (but everything is on the menu) and I didnt want to just jump on the Celestion Vintage 30 bandwagon. I looked around online and listened to some demos and settled on an Eminence Texas Heat. I also liked that they're assembled here in Kentucky, where I live. It showed up yesterday and I got it installed in the top position.

What a difference... It was like night and day. Gone was the harshness. Warm and fat as opposed to shrill and crappy lol. Everything from the cleans through the crunch and right on into the really high gain stuff had more clarity, sounded 100 times better and I couldn't be happier.

I went ahead and ordered an Eminence Swamp Thang to replace the other Seventy 80 in that cabinet as I REALLY liked how these 2 speakers sounded blended in the same 2x12. I also like the idea of being able to get different flavors from the same cab if I feel like recording.

If youre into rock or heavy stuff but like versatility, I highly recommend these Eminence Texas Heat speakers.
 
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Jeff Scott said:
Buy an original! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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The 80s version?

At one time I was working part time and seasonal and I saw a great deal on an Ibanez copy (well as much as you can copy something that didn’t exist yet, they were made in the 70s), but it sold before I could get the money together.
This was at a time after both of those were already old, used guitars.
 
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zontar said:
The 80s version?

At one time I was working part time and seasonal and I saw a great deal on an Ibanez copy (well as much as you can copy something that didn’t exist yet, they were made in the 70s), but it sold before I could get the money together.
This was at a time after both of those were already old, used guitars.
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The very first one! '50s?
 

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