I would check out a full range spk caninet and leave the Kemper speaker on. an EV 12M is gonna color your sound
I would check out a full range spk caninet and leave the Kemper speaker on. an EV 12M is gonna color your sound
This.
Or run a direct profile into the cabs..
It would be probably be better and less expensive to buy a FRFR speaker because it will have the proper crossover installed..
Celestion and Emminence both have a Coax 12" w/a horn... You'll need to buy there crossover as well, to install into your cab
The cats at Eminence can hook you up with the parts for the most commonly used frfr coax setup.
I just built a cabinet using a coaxial Eminence Beta-10cx and ASD:1001 horn and it sounds pretty darned good. It also measured pretty flat. I think this is what Xitone uses.
I'd recommend the Beta-12cx and ASD:1001 with the PXB2-2k5CX crossover. I tried the 3k5 crossover first and it was peaky around 3k5.
Mike, The avatar looks like a nice speaker. But for reference, you could replace your speakers in both of your existing 1x12's for about $300, including the woofers, tweeters and crossovers. In addition to saving money, this would also provide the option of running in stereo if you ever wanted to, or using one for backline and one for a monitor.
See these links:
The only other stuff you need is some short speaker wire and crimp terminal ends if you don't want to solder to the crossover. Also, you'll need some short screws to mount the crossover inside your speaker cab. The rest is pretty intuitive, pos/neg inputs to the crossover from your speaker jack and pos/neg outputs to the woofer and tweeter. Optionally, you can line your cabinet with eggcrate foam to help control internal resonances to help flatten out the response a bit, but you can play around with that later. This is more important if your cabinet is sealed or mostly sealed. Not really required for an open back.
Maybe try converting just one cabinet first to see if you like it. If you need any help, give me a holler.
You caught me making a new (lighter) box for my speaker, so I was able to take a few pictures. Hope this helps.
Note that the compression driver (tweeter) is screwed into the back of the woofer.
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Mike, sorry to hear my suggestion isn't working out. Mine is the 10" version in a closed but ported cabinet and I don't get the flabby sound. It actually sounds decent even on bass. The culprit is probably the open back cabinet. I thought it might not be a problem at guitar frequencies, but apparently it is. This speaker is designed to go much deeper than a typical guitar speaker (57Hz rolloff vs 80-120Hz on a guitar speaker, and 47Hz resonance vs 75Hz resonance).
There are two things I can suggest:
1. Try running a High Pass filter at 100hz on the Kemper in the effects section and see if that helps. This will give a low frequency response closer to a regular guitar speaker. This kind of rolloff was occurring naturally in your old speaker. If that works, then maybe the monitor EQ can work well enough too, freeing up your effects slot.
2. If you like the sound other than the flabbiness, you might want to consider putting a back on your cabinet, which could be a simple piece of plywood. If you send me the internal dimensions of your cabinet, I can run it through my speaker sim software and see what that will look like. Generally, closed cabinets provide tight bass without super deep lows, which might be perfect for you.
Keep me posted, it was my idea so I'll help you through this.
Mike, sorry to hear my suggestion isn't working out. Mine is the 10" version in a closed but ported cabinet and I don't get the flabby sound. It actually sounds decent even on bass. The culprit is probably the open back cabinet. I thought it might not be a problem at guitar frequencies, but apparently it is. This speaker is designed to go much deeper than a typical guitar speaker (57Hz rolloff vs 80-120Hz on a guitar speaker, and 47Hz resonance vs 75Hz resonance).
There are two things I can suggest:
1. Try running a High Pass filter at 100hz on the Kemper in the effects section and see if that helps. This will give a low frequency response closer to a regular guitar speaker. This kind of rolloff was occurring naturally in your old speaker. If that works, then maybe the monitor EQ can work well enough too, freeing up your effects slot.
2. If you like the sound other than the flabbiness, you might want to consider putting a back on your cabinet, which could be a simple piece of plywood. If you send me the internal dimensions of your cabinet, I can run it through my speaker sim software and see what that will look like. Generally, closed cabinets provide tight bass without super deep lows, which might be perfect for you.
Keep me posted, it was my idea so I'll help you through this.
Thanks. It is sounding better after playing with the EQ's a bit. I am going to try the closed back as well. I play pretty loud so hoping the speaker can handle it. Rated at 250W.
Hello! I've finished my Monitor Project by putting an Beyma 12ga50 in a cheap harley-benton 1x12 cab (from thomann) , close the back (!!! makes more definition and pressure)) and listen. It's an amazing monitor-cab for the Kemper, just tweak a little more bass (I've made an extra Output preset for it, so I can switch fast) and it sounds very good for this price (payed 105 € for the Beyma and 25€ for the used cab)!!! I compare it with the headphone Sound with a AKG 712 Pro and it comes very close!
My second experience is the VOX nighttrain 1x12 open back cab, which is very little and there's an Celestion G12M Greenback in it. This cab sounds also very amazing with the Kemper (I leave the monitor cab on!!!), not that flat like the beyma, but much more amp-sounding color, which is very great. I use it in my homestudio for composing and practice, and it really rocks!
Greetings
Andreas
