Guitar speaker cabinet
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A guitar speaker cabinet contains one or more guitar speakers - usually 1, 2, or 4 speakers, most commonly 12" in diameter. A speaker cabinet can be open-back or closed-back. A 4x12 cabinet is a guitar speaker cabinet containing four 12" speakers. A cabinet is usually mono, but can be stereo.
The speakers in a cabinet can be wired in parallel (lowering the impedance) or in series (increasing the impedance). For vacuum tube amplifiers, the cabinet impedance must match the output impedance the amplifier is designed for or the impedance value it is set to.
A combo amp for guitar is a single integrated cabinet that contains the amplifier head and one or two guitar speakers. A 2x10 combo amp contains two 10" guitar speakers.
Speaker compliments are often abbreviated such that a 4x10" cabinet is written as 410 cab and a combo amplifier with a single 12" speaker is referred to as a 112 combo amplifier.
A guitar speaker isolation cabinet contains a guitar speaker and one or two microphones in a single- or double-layer soundproofed box.
[edit] See also
- Loudspeaker enclosure
- Bass instrument amplification
- Electric guitar
- Guitar amplifier
- Guitar speaker
- Isolation booth (audio)
- Isolation cabinet (guitar)
- Loudspeaker
- [1]- loudspeaker cabinet manufacturer
