shiva 20th different cabs

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i use a mesa oversize (standard rectifier cab) with my shiva 20th and find that i have to crank the gain all the way up to get a thick sound...when i played through a friends randall KH cab with the celestion GH100's i had to cut the gain back to noon. anybody experience this with different cabs?
 
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So the H100's distort sooner than the V30's?
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K100s have a greater power handling capacity - I doubt they break up sooner than the V30s.

However, what we need to determine is, is it the speaker breaking up and getting pushed? Or is it the amp's preamp section getting pushed? Or is it the amp's power section getting pushed?

No matter what, you won't want the physical SPEAKER to be breaking up. No. There will be much shit to be heard.

That said, due to the mid-spike design of the V30s, they tend to growl a little more sooner when we think it's a lot of other variables at play. The K100 is a more neutral speaker - gives more of what the amp is offering (and your guitar/playing).

K100 are great for recording. V30s great for live due to their cut (midspike).

In any event you never want a speaker to distort...that just sounds like a shit sandwich when the woofing, barfing, and farting starts.
 
A few things at play here as well, the Mesa oversized recto cabs are not super think sounding to begin with. I have an old 97' angled recto oversized cab collecting dust in my space. I find that the Bogner's particularly sound better with a more traditional dimensioned cab. My Mesa DR sounds better in a traditional straight cab as well. I find the 100's to be a tad scooped sounding as well, so that would also change the tonal dimension of the Shiva some going from one speaker type to another. If you like your mesa cab, maybe get two H100's or T75's and put them in an X pattern in your Recto cab. My Shiva sounded incredible through an X pattern cab with two V30's and two Creamback H75's.
 
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