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Re: High power, low break up speaker

11/24/2003 2:04 AM
Owen	Re: High power, low break up speaker I have a Mojotone Black Beauty 12 in my Deluxe clone. I believe it is the 100 watt version, as it doesn't have the Jensen type basket. It is a very loud and clean speaker, not really breaking up at all really - at least until the volume and tone are on nine and you are hitting the guitar hard. The clean and distorted sounds are great, but it is the clean sounds that are really nice - I think it has more color than a Weber California, which is another speaker I was considering. I'm not a major proponent of the Mojo thing - I just think it sounds MUCH better than I thought - at least as good as Weber and Jensen in quality of construction and tone. My amp sounds big and bright and focused, even with flatwounds. But it does not sounds like a little, midrangey Deluxe with that suggestion of a bottom end. It sounds like a twin, which is at times a good thing, though I think in a band situation, it may be hard to get that "Deluxe" sound. It kind of has that Standel clean, not Fender raunch. I'm going to buy another c12Q for raunch - tried all the rest.

11/24/2003 2:04 AM

Owen

Re: High power, low break up speaker

I have a Mojotone Black Beauty 12 in my Deluxe clone. I believe it is the 100 watt version, as it doesn't have the Jensen type basket. It is a very loud and clean speaker, not really breaking up at all really - at least until the volume and tone are on nine and you are hitting the guitar hard. The clean and distorted sounds are great, but it is the clean sounds that are really nice - I think it has more color than a Weber California, which is another speaker I was considering. I'm not a major proponent of the Mojo thing - I just think it sounds MUCH better than I thought - at least as good as Weber and Jensen in quality of construction and tone. My amp sounds big and bright and focused, even with flatwounds. But it does not sounds like a little, midrangey Deluxe with that suggestion of a bottom end. It sounds like a twin, which is at times a good thing, though I think in a band situation, it may be hard to get that "Deluxe" sound. It kind of has that Standel clean, not Fender raunch. I'm going to buy another c12Q for raunch - tried all the rest.