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RE: Sealed/Open guitar cabinet?

Posted by Inmate51 on August 9, 2007 at 20:05:39

In Reply to: RE: Sealed/Open guitar cabinet? posted by BFB on August 9, 2007 at 13:19:23:

Finally, someone on this forum with a sense of humor!!!

Really, if you want to play guitar and be good at it, take the 20 hours you'd spend building a speaker cabinet and use it to practice your axe.

But to answer your question... the vast majority of guitar sound is at frequencies above where the difference between closed or open back is critical. If you were playing bass guitar, that'd be a whole nuther matter.

Design it closed-back, and leave the back off. If you don't like it, put the back on. In either case, pay very close attention to the cone excursion in its resonance frequency range. You don't want to break a surround or spider in the middle of a really good lick. This is the frequency range where things can get complicated, which takes us back to my original point: keep reading loudspeaker physics. :)

Edits: 08/09/07

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