eminence swamp thang with vintage 30's or eminence legend 12

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I play a 5150 head with an esp m1 that has an emg 81 and am about to get a cab that either has eminence swamp thangs with vintage 30's (x pattern) or a cab that has eminence legend 1258 speakers. I play down tuned metal in drop A with lots of palm muting and am looking for a sound that has big, tight bass with enough high end to cut through. Which combination of speakers would you think is better for this. I know that the 300 what basson cabs come with the eminence legend 1258 and the 480 watt basson cabs come with eminence patriot red white and blues (which I heard are trebley and not good). I heard a 5150 with a basson cab which I think had the eminence legend 1258 in it and it sounded awesome. What do you think? anybody have experience with these speakers? thanks in advance
 
Ive got a swamp thang in a 1x12 combo that sounds fairly nice, particularly when broken in. Can't say much about running them with V30s though. 150w on the swamp, it stays tight down to drop A no problem.
 
The Swamp Thang is my favorite high gain speaker. I've never tried it mixed with the V30, though.
 
As a side note I like that sonic blue stephen carpenter guitar that thing is siick
 
anyone else have an opinion on the swamp thang or legend 1258?
 
I have a quad of V12 Legends. I never mixed them in the same cab, but played with a Legend cab and a V30 cab at the same time and they mixed pretty good.
The Legend has clarity and a tight, deep lowend. It's a darker speaker with reduced treble and lots of low mids.
The V30's add their typical high mid and treble crunch to that and it worked out well.

The Swamp Thang has more lowend than the Legend and more presence/treble cut.
I'm not sure what type or level the Swamp Thang's mids are, but I think they might be scooped. I can't remember. Also considered a dark speaker if that means any thing to you.

For what you want, I would go with a cab with four Legends.
It'll be a 480 watt cab vs a 240 watt one and it will handle all the gain and volume you can throw at it. Those speakers work great for drop tuned clarity.
 
Yeah, no experience with 1258 sorry.
You can always have Avatar make you a custom cab for the same price you are probably looking to spend ($300-$400?)
Or, for V12 loaded cabs look for used Soldano 4x12's, Vaders or Krank Rev. 4x12's.
 
do eminence legend v12's break up at all when cranked?
 
weezerdude":384xsdf4 said:
do eminence legend v12's break up at all when cranked?
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Hardly, but they do not sound stiff or sterile either.
 
sounds interesting I think I might go for eminence legend v12's and celestion vintage 30's in an x pattern in an avatar contemporary cab. On a side note do celestion g12k 100 speakers break up at high volume or sound stiff?
 
I find the G12K to be fizzy on the highs compared to the Eminences.


weezerdude":3k6uow2w said:
As a side note I like that sonic blue stephen carpenter guitar that thing is siick
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