Iceman63
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Anyone change theirs? Mines stock with a Celestion 70/80.
Custom 50 combo speaker
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Iceman63
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Anyone know what speaker they have in their H or Custom 50 combo? No one?
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My H is a head.
Iceman63
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I was mistaken, mine has a G12 Classic Lead 80, not a 70/80; which has developed a rattle. I do not play this amp loud.
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Interesting.. the stock speaker in the 2-channel Custom 20 combo is a G12H30.
Have you tried tightening the screws that mount it to the cabinet? Usually a rattle is something loose somewhere.
I once thought I had an amp rattle, and it was a heat register buzzing in the room. I wasn't playing loud. Took the amp apart, drove myself crazy, then realized it wasn't the amp. Tightened down the heat register, and fixed it. But it sounded EXACTLY like it was coming from the amp.
Psychoacoustics!
Another true story: In 2014 I was getting a strange buzz from my left studio monitor. Of course, I checked everything in the room, but the sound was clearly (I thought) coming from the speaker. I sent the speaker to Genelec for repair, but I was in the middle of a project, and bought a second set of monitors. And these weren't cheap monitors!
Genetic called and said they'd run the speaker in their anechoic chamber, and there was nothing at all wrong with it. So they sent it back.
Suddenly, playing the piece that buzzed on my NEW monitors, the speaker buzz appeared again!
It was the speaker stand! The platform the speaker rested on wasn't tight enough. I wasted $3000 on new monitors because I hadn't thought of checking the speaker stand! Did I ever feel like an idiot.
However, I sent my Genelecs to my son in LA and he tracked and mixed the 30 Seconds to Mars album "Love Lust Faith & Dreams" with them. And used them on his own band's record. So I feel like I had a hand in that!
Psychoacoustics!
Another true story: In 2014 I was getting a strange buzz from my left studio monitor. Of course, I checked everything in the room, but the sound was clearly (I thought) coming from the speaker. I sent the speaker to Genelec for repair, but I was in the middle of a project, and bought a second set of monitors. And these weren't cheap monitors!
Genetic called and said they'd run the speaker in their anechoic chamber, and there was nothing at all wrong with it. So they sent it back.
Suddenly, playing the piece that buzzed on my NEW monitors, the speaker buzz appeared again!
It was the speaker stand! The platform the speaker rested on wasn't tight enough. I wasted $3000 on new monitors because I hadn't thought of checking the speaker stand! Did I ever feel like an idiot.
However, I sent my Genelecs to my son in LA and he tracked and mixed the 30 Seconds to Mars album "Love Lust Faith & Dreams" with them. And used them on his own band's record. So I feel like I had a hand in that!
Iceman63
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I found the rattle...isolated it down to the cone dust cap on the speaker. Where it's glued to the speaker...there's about an inch long area where it's come unglued and vibrates.
The dope they use as adhesive typically stays tacky even if the dust cover has lifted. That happened to me and I used the eraser end of a pencil to press the edge back onto the cone. It's probably not a permanent solution, but adding adhesive sounds like a last resort.
Yes, adding adhesive has the potential of changing how the speaker sounds.
Iceman63
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Ok, so I spoke with Matt King in customer service. He's sending me a new speaker. Awesome customer service!
