piggin1972

I heard a handwired marshall 2x10 with greenbacks yesterday, which was the fattest sound i've heard from a cab - quite fabulous. Made me think i might try to "improve" my 1960A 4x12 slanted cab, loaded with Vintage 30s. I am going to keep the V30s for now, but am going to handwire the thing myself - any recommendations for guage/types of wire to use?

Also, I have the stereo switch in the back of the cab, but never use it. I use the 16ohm only - feels like I could ditch that as well, which is one less thing for the signal to pass through - any suggested wiring diagrams?

I am ok with a soldering iron (but am not doing silver soldering), thankfully!

cheers

American Viking

Soldering everything together, even if using a larger gauged wire isn't really going to change the tone of the cabinet.

Nevertheless, here is the wiring diagram, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Wiring a 4 X 12 Speaker cabinet
Jumbo Sunshade - Speaker Wiring Diagrams

What is your definition of silver soldering? Brazing typically involves a torch to get temperatures that high and a torch does not belong near a speaker. The melting temperature for typical solder is slightly above 400°F. The melting temperature of brazing rods or silver solder is well above 1000°F and even if you could get the metal that hot without a flame it the heat would travel and damage the speaker itself. Sorry to get all in depth about it, I was in commercial and industrial construction before I was a rock star.

One last thing, if you do decide to mess with everything and remove the unused jacks from the back plate of the cabinet, if I were you I would make sure to either plug the unused jack or remove it completely so you never run the risk of accidentally plugging your amplifier into a jack with no load connected.

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piggin1972

thanks for the note of caution.

i got the idea for rewiring from another thread in the forum, where that person claimed it made a big difference - what could possibly go wrong!!

i've been spending some time doing this sort of stuff lately - i.e getting better cables and patches (george ls), auralex gramma cab platform (which makes a huge difference in terms of tihghtening bass response, rather than it dissipating through the floor boards) and all my pedals are now true bypass.

seemed like another geeky way to get better tone

apart from the obvious solutions like - spend a whole bunch of cash on boutique stuff