anyone have experience with the diezel 1x12 cab?

[obi]

I'll be ordering a 50W Einstein head within the next few weeks and I'm looking for a 1x12 cab to go with it. A lot of people have recommended the Bogner Cubes and the Custom Audio Electronics 1x12 cabs. I believe they are very similar and have top notch ratings with many users to support them, but I'm also very interested in the Diezel 1x12. I mean cmon, its a DIEZEL!!! Unfortunately, there are none of the Boger, CAE, Diezel 1x12's where I live, so I'm wondering if anyone can gimme some comments or suggestions on Diezel's 1x12.

Also, I believe the Einstein fits perfectly on the Diezel 1x12, right? If someone can confirm that, that'll be great, but I'm more concerned with how they sound.

Thanks in advance!!

 

[nbarts]

Why 1x12?

 

[obi]

Cuz I don't gig anymore and now I'm mainly an apartment player with some occasional recording. I feel like 2x12's or 4x12's might be overkill, won't it?

 

[Joeytpg]

Cuz I don't gig anymore and now I'm mainly an apartment player with some occasional recording. I feel like 2x12's or 4x12's might be overkill, won't it?

I think so....but even a 1x12 it's kind of overkill for bedroom playing. At least Diezels sound great at low volumes. I'd suggest getting an attenuator, or maybe a volume pedal in the loop.

I have a 2x12 and at the moment I'm only playing in my bedroom (I use the volume pedal in the loop) and even though it's great, I think an attenuator will be my final purchase to solve this.

 

[White_Van]

Cuz I don't gig anymore and now I'm mainly an apartment player with some occasional recording. I feel like 2x12's or 4x12's might be overkill, won't it?

I think so....but even a 1x12 it's kind of overkill for bedroom playing. At least Diezels sound great at low volumes. I'd suggest getting an attenuator, or maybe a volume pedal in the loop.

I have a 2x12 and at the moment I'm only playing in my bedroom (I use the volume pedal in the loop) and even though it's great, I think an attenuator will be my final purchase to solve this.

Attenuators merely will suck your tone. What you do is you boost the Master Volume to a pretty high setting and you use the channel volume to control the overall volume level, crazy good poweramp distortion at bedroom levels. The best of both worlds. I literally can get a screaming tone that won't wake up my brothers in the next room. Great stuff.

 

[obi]

Yeah...I already have the hotplate (the purple 8 ohm one), but still considering if I should be using it with the Einstein since the MV is so good. Well, I'm actually thinking of getting two 1x12's so either I can use both with the Diezel or use one with the Diezel and the other with my Jmp-1/Mesa 20/20 rack. The 1x12's will only be my home rig though. Although I don't gig, I bring my amps around to my friend's place and a friend-owned cafe to jam, and they have their own cabs I can use.

Anyone with experience with the Diezel 1x12 care to comment?

 

[bmwm3cs]

Honestly, it depends on the amount of bass and gain one uses. I've used a 2x12 and a 1x12 and didn't really care for them when using much gain. Cleans and tweed sound good. Although if you are wanting a 1x12 for volume control I wouldn't recommend it. It is still loud. Diezel's are really good for low volumes. Power attenuators are hard on the Diezel's transformers and aren't really nessesary.

If u r in an appartment situation make a sound isolation box.
Check out this:
Scroll down to where he talks about mic'ing a Cab. He shows you briefly how to make a sound issolation box. He's Dave Weiner form the Steve Vai band in case you don't already knwo who he is. Really smart guy.
http://www.daveweiner.com/rotw.html

 

[nbarts]

There is not that much difference between loudness of 1x12 & 2x12. The only 1x12 I could recommend as of now is something with EVM12L in it. I have a Bogner Cube 1x12 with v30 & though Cube is a great cabinet, a single v30 doesn't sound pleasing to my ear. On the other hand the Mesa Thiele I had with EVM12L (it had the harshness of mesa cabs) sounded very good in the room with Herbert, not that good in front of the speaker though.