This video contains a shootout of seven 12" speakers that I was interested in testing out for my Trinity Tramp amplifier. This is a classic rock and pop shootout, so the goal was to find a speaker that would do well across a wide range of sounds from very clean all the way up to overdrive and distortion.

List of Guitar Parts Used:

Sample #1 - Chordal Clean (Original)
Sample #2 - Funky Clean (Original)
Sample #3 - Blues Distortion (ZZ Topp)
Sample #4 - Pop Clean (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
Sample #5 - Tight Overdrive (The Cars)
Sample #6 - Alt Clean (Original)
Sample #7 - Rootsy Rock (Sheryl Crow)
Sample #8 - Hard Rock (AC/DC)

Table of Contents:

00:00 - Intro

04:55 - Part 1 - Speaker Overviews

- Jensen Jet Blackbird 40
- Jensen Jet Stealth 65
- Jensen Jet Nighthawk 75
- Jensen Tornado Classic 100
- Weber 12A125A (30W)
- WGS Reaper (30W)
- Celestion Vintage 30 (65W)

08:47 - Part 2 - Trinity Tramp

12:19 - Part 3 - Guitars & Music Samples Used

17:00 - Part 4 - Speaker Shootout #1 - Full-Length Raw Clips

Here you can listen to full length clips (45-60 seconds each), unprocessed, for each of the seven speakers tested. The speaker order is randomized for each of the samples.

17:03 - Sample #1 - Chordal Clean - Full-Length Raw Clips
23:39 - Sample #2 - Funky Clean - Full-Length Raw Clips
29:25 - Sample #3 - Blues Distortion - Full-Length Raw Clips
35:31 - Sample #4 - Pop Clean - Full-Length Raw Clips
44:03 - Sample #5 - Tight Overdrive - Full-Length Raw Clips
51:34 - Sample #6 - Alt Clean - Full-Length Raw Clips
58:54 - Sample #7 - Rootsy Rock - Full-Length Raw Clips
01:09:21 - Sample #8 Hard Rock - Full-Length Raw Clips

01:15:58 - Part 5 - Speaker Shootout #2 - Lightning Round - Brief Clips

This is a lightning round, where you can hear short snippets of 2-4 bars from sections of each sample back-to-back, which is useful for making quick comparisons of tone.

01:16:01 - Sample #1 - Chordal Clean - Lightning Round
01:18:28 - Sample #2 - Funky Clean - Lightning Round
01:20:15 - Sample #3 - Blues Distortion - Lightning Round
01:21:33 - Sample #4 - Pop Clean - Lightning Round
01:24:18 - Sample #5 - Tight Overdrive - Lightning Round
01:27:21 - Sample #6 - Alt Clean - Lightning Round
01:28:56 - Sample #7 - Rootsy Rock - Lightning Round
01:32:09 - Sample #8 - Hard Rock - Lightning Round

01:35:15 - Part 6 - Speaker Shootout #3 - Full-Length Processed Clips

Here you can listen to full length clips (45-60 seconds each), this time with some light studio effects added in the mix, for each of the seven speakers tested. The speaker order is randomized for each of the samples in the same sequence as the first shootout. The processed clips help to get a better sense of how these speakers might really sound in your mix, although no EQ was done to the tracks (with the exception of Sample #5, where a little bit of low end was trimmed, and a couple of notch filters were applied to mellow the pick attack).

01:35:47 - Sample #1 - Chordal Clean - Full-Length Processed Clips
01:42:25 - Sample #2 - Funky Clean - Full-Length Processed Clips
01:48:11 - Sample #3 - Blues Distortion - Full-Length Processed Clips
01:54:17 - Sample #4 - Pop Clean - Full-Length Processed Clips
02:02:50 - Sample #5 - Tight Overdrive - Full-Length Processed Clips
02:10:21 - Sample #6 - Alt Clean - Full-Length Processed Clips
02:17:50 - Sample #7 - Rootsy Rock - Full-Length Processed Clips
02:28:28 - Sample #8 - Hard Rock - Full-Length Processed Clips

02:35:06 - Part 7 - Speaker Scorecard & Final Thoughts

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