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Anyone tried these with their Hiwatt cabs? (Or any other cabs?)

I'm just curious as I was close-listening to all the speakers in my cab and the center of a speaker really has this pronounced Hi freq that can be annoying. When playing normally (standing next to the cab) this is not a problem. But what when on stage where the ears of the listeners are on the same level as the speakers?

Maybe the Hi freq is just my Telecaster and the Analogman Beano (treble booster).

I've used the originals from W e b e r as well as some home-made ones. I like the idea, because almost all guitar speakers beam HF a bit right on axis, and "not trebly enough" is rarely a problem with guitar amps.

There are other solutions too, but I can't remember where I read about them.

--mark

mhuss wrote:I like the idea, because almost all guitar speakers beam HF a bit right on axis,...

Agreed. The higher the frequency, the narrower the cone of projection. Unless one is after a perfect alignment of sound waves (recording, for example), some sort of dispersion mechanism makes a speaker more listener-friendly. Of course, there's always the turn-the-cab-facing-backward approach.

Dave

No, not on my Hiwatt 4x12 but I have the "Radiation Disk" version (same idea) on my DrZ Maz 18jr 1x12 combo. It inherently has the sweetest tone of all my setups and so not dealing with an "icepick" problem but the added dispersion on a 112 made it sound bigger = a nice effect, along with being an openback.

I saved this link from my prior research on the subject: http://www.marshallforum.com/cabinets-s ... fixes.html