Hi all,
I've spent a frustrating afternoon yesterday trying to sort this out, but can't seem to get there.
I'm running a Peavey Classic 20 MH and a celestion gold through a 1x12, using a Les Paul, PAF pickup sounds, maybe a little hotter on the bridge.
Clean, with no drive pedals or anything, it sounds quite good actually, but applying any kind of drive pedal results in a really harsh freq peak, at either the upper mids or lower trebble regions....sorry I can't give numbers I am not that well-versed just yet lol. If I turn down the trebble, I get mud, turn down the mids, I get a horrible boxy, toneless bit of unpleasantness. Pedals are a TC boost and a JHS Angry Charley Andy Timmons pedal.
I don't even bother with the Peavey drive channel because its a sizzling mess, but hoped to use this thing as a pedal platform.
I really like the cleans for twanging country sounds though!
So, is it the amp? the speaker? or what?
I'm not running it particularly quietly, maybe halfway up.
Thanks
Matt
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It also might be the amp, particularly if you have the channel volume (probably labelled 'Pre' on a Peavey) low, because these often have a bright cap which brings out the top-end harshness in pedals. I don't have a schematic for that amp so I'm not sure.
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No channel volumen on the classic 20 mh but the master was about half way up. not quiet but not cranked.
The good news is that it does get better over time. After 6 months of gigging and band practices the ones I've had in the past have sounded smoother. Still one of the brighter speakers I've used but nothing crazy.
It's funny, they're supposed to be cut from the same cloth as the Celestion Blue but I consider them very different speakers.
I see you live in Birmingham, book a few hours at a practice studio (I use Robannas), take the amp and some earplugs and crank it up, or maybe even just leave a signal looping and go shopping for a bit.
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What you're describing just sounds like a gold. Have you got another cab? It could work nicer with something woodier like a greenback, or an American voiced speaker possibly.
You might be able to get away with a Blue in a Classic 20. For me that is a completely different sounding speaker. Otherwise try and track down the Tayden version of a Blue which I think has 25W power handling. It doesn't sound quite the same but it's a very good speaker.
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