Duffy49
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Personally I am loving the DSL40C with the Celestion Creamback G12M-65.
From the ad copy, but I find it to be 100% accurate: "With its warmth and distinctive growl, the G12M-65 serves up the essence of British guitar tone, with low end grunt complementing its warm mids, crunchy upper-mids and sweet highs. If you want definitive Celestion sound, this is the speaker."
Now keep in mind my playing style/styles. I play modern worship music in my Church Praise and Worship team (Switchfoot, Newsboys, Third Day, Lincoln Brewster, Chris Tomlin, etc.) as well as blues/Texas Blues, Southern Rock, Classic Rock and 80's. I don't really do ultra gain stuff so the taming of the "Utra-Gain" channel was a winner for me.
The Creamback really plays into that a lot as well as the removal of C19. The Creamback really gives me a smoother more even gain while still providing plenty of clarityand sensitivity. I find it balances out the tones in this amp nicely.
I can still get right on the edge of Hot Rodded JCM800 80's tones if I crank the second mode on the Ultra gain channel. Generally I only do that at home though (when the wife and child are away...)
Nice description and it sounds like a good choice for someone.
I'll think about that one. I'm also thinking of:
Governor
Swamp Thang
Texas Heat.
I also wonder what one of the expensive Celestion Golds or Eminence Ram Rods would sound like with their alnico bell covered magnets? I'm talking for blues, blues rock, Southern rock, and rock type music in general; clean and with some mild to fairly strong overdrive, but not ultra high gain - more of a C-19 modded amp type thing on the gain voices.