Celestion Vintage 30

The Vintage 30 resulted from Celestion’s early steps to preserve the tonal characteristics of vintage speakers while using contemporary materials and construction techniques.
Seemingly twice as loud as anything else at the same power level, the Vintage 30 handles massive overdrive sounds with ease. Tight bass, fat mids and a smooth, harmonically rich top end powered by a ceramic magnet.

It has been one of the most used and most notorious speakers of the guitar world. This has been the predominant speaker when it comes to heavy rock recordings.

Sound.

Below are recordings of both cabinet variations. All recordings were done live through the amp set to a ‘neutral ’ 12 o’clock dial setup. The first ‘chord progression licks’ were played on a Gretch G5420t and the second ‘blues style licks’ were played on a PRS SE Custom 24. Both guitars were set to the same tone setups each time using both pickups and again, ‘neutral’ guitar dial setups.

The live recordings were recorded through two microphones. One SM57 close to the cone and a vintage Cadenza ribbon microphone sat 40cm from the cabinet. We have supplied each recording to give you a wider scope and understanding of how each speaker can sound and perform.

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