Marshall 1965A 4x10 cab

[MaceRider]

With that tuning you'll need a 4x10 bass cabinet. Typical 10" guitar speakers don't produce that low of a frequency well (D/C).

Hmmm. Maybe a 4x10 bass cab with 2 of the speakers replaced with guitar speakers?

Maybe 2x12 is the way to go after all?

 

[lunchbox]

Hmmm. Maybe a 4x10 bass cab with 2 of the speakers replaced with guitar speakers?

Maybe 2x12 is the way to go after all?

That might be kinda cool, actually. Mixing the two types might work really well. They're around the same efficiency as 10" guitar speakers. Higher wattages though, so you'd probably want to go with the lowest wattage bass 10".

 

[RangerJay]

Mixing and matching different speakers is tricky. If you are not careful, one or two of the speakers will use more power than the other speakers and the overall "balance" will be lost. I ran into this when getting a custom 10x12 built many years ago. I got a couple of Webers recommended by Ted himself (because he knew exactly what could go wrong mixing speaker sizes and/or drivers). He explained it to me in an email, and honestly, most of it was over my head at the time. I just went with his recommendation. Definitely do some Google research before throwing money at it if you attempt something like this.

 

[JCM900MkIII]

Mixing and matching different speakers is tricky. If you are not careful, one or two of the speakers will use more power than the other speakers and the overall "balance" will be lost. I ran into this when getting a custom 10x12 built many years ago. I got a couple of Webers recommended by Ted himself (because he knew exactly what could go wrong mixing speaker sizes and/or drivers). He explained it to me in an email, and honestly, most of it was over my head at the time. I just went with his recommendation. Definitely do some Google research before throwing money at it if you attempt something like this.

Speakers don't use power. Speakers can handle power.
Speakers are passive. They don't "do" anything.
Total misconception by people, who think a speaker "draws power".

When using different Wattage speakers, the only thing you need to know is that the Wattage (or powerhandling) of the cab is "the Wattage of the lowest rated speaker x (times) the amount of speakers"

Different efficiency is probably what you are talking about.

The dB rating on a speaker will dictate the loudness at a certain output Wattage of your amp (to get this rating they use 1 Watt measured at 1 meter distance).
A 96dB speaker will be less loud then a 102dB speaker (at whatever Wattage your amp is running at)

So mixing a low efficiency speaker with a high efficiency speaker will very likely drown out the low efficiency one.
Very pronounced frequencies could still jump out from the low efficiency speaker though.

 

[MaceRider]

So I would guess that you want to use more efficient bass speakers and maybe slightly less efficient guitar speakers (because higher frequencies need less power to be loud)?

 

[AlvisX]

1965 cabs rule , I have 3 of 'em .....for a reason
I wouldn't really want 'em with anything but G 10L 35's in there though .They are really perfect together

 

[AlvisX]

Although my B cab over in Europe has two generations of G 10 S in it ....and they rock



Just re-grilled one of my ratty A cabs last week ...diggin it !

 

[leprof31]

Whatch out about different speakers connected in parallel if ohms are different. Exemple... a 8 ohms in parallel with a 16 ohms speaker equal now 5.5 ohms, but the 8 ohms speaker will get twice two third of the current, and the 16 ohms will get one third.