sound for playing in their bedroom late at
night or whatever. I think cabinet design is very
important.
[WM] I’m seeing the G12H30 in a lot of your
cabinets. What about that speaker makes it so
appealing to you?
[Chris] We just keep shooting it out against
different speakers, and it seems to have
more air, more depth, and more of a three-
dimensional quality than almost anything we’ve
put it up against. The one we like is actually the
cheaper one, it’s the anniversary model, and
there’s just something really special about the
engineering on that speaker that we just love
the sound of. It just works really well with the
amps. We don’t use that in our stiff cabinets
for the most part. In our Vinny we use a Jenson
C10R which is also a nice speaker.
[WM] The Dizzy Bird is a fascinating design,
as it’s a combination of your reverb and Vinny
combined, which seems like a kind of mad
scientist move. What’s the story behind that?
2x12” Chimera Cabinet
a cannon, it has a really fast powerful response On the other end of the spectrum we have [Chris] My friend Izzy who is a luthier at Ronin
that just kind of hits you in the chest. We use the Vinny, where we actually don’t want that Guitars actually came up with the concept.
pine on those, and everything just starts to cabinet to resonate because we want it to be We were at NAMM a couple years ago and I
resonate with the speaker, and that’s part of the quiet. When people buy a 1-watt amp, they showed him what the Tall Bird sounded like in
sound of the amp. don’t want volume, they want a controlled front of the Vinny and he said, “Oh, it would be
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