Building A Guitar Cabinet 2x12

Dimensions based on a mesa boogie rectifier 2x12 horizontal cab.

Building a guitar cabinet 2x12.

Wood has a direct effect on music. There are many types of wood you can use for guitar speakers including composites or manufactured wood. The rt 2100 is a 1x12 hybrid amp with a tube pre amp stage and solid state power amp. As an amateur electric guitarist one eventually begins to seek a better sound.

Tube amps are supposed to be the bomb right. Well some time ago i bought a blackheart little giant 5 amp used. The 2x12 speaker cabinet will be paired with a mosvalve tube works rt 2100 amp that was purchased used for 250. Here s a link to part 2 of how to build a 2x12 guitar speaker cabinet.

As guitar speakers are different so their cabinets are different. When used as a guitar speaker wood imparts tone character and volume to the guitar. Speaker sound is related to wood density just as it is in a piano soundboard or a guitar body. Today we are going to talk about how to build a guitar amp cabinet from scratch.

One day i started to scribble a cabinet on a piece of paper that was flying around and half an hour later the plan was laid out. What might seem like a daunting task is actually not that hard at all. Youtu be 0nhz5adowju i ve tried to show you all the steps on how to build a 2x. The key is to take things slow plan the whole process thoroughly and have patience.

A quick how to build a 2x12. Building a 1 12 guitar speaker cabinet. The studio classic 2 12 is build to be paired with the new marshall studio classic head an amplifier that has been compared by many to the jcm800 one of marshalls best ever amps. Primarily the cabinet is a convenient way of housing the speaker so it should be solidly built to ensure no joint vibration unpleasant buzzing and be strong enough to withstand hard use.

I started this project with a budget of building a 2x12 speaker cabinet for under 500. Marshall guitar cabinets have long been known as the workhorses of the music industry and its hard to think of any cabinet brand that comes close in terms of legacy quality and reputation. As you might know i m really into guitars and guitar equipment right now. Most 2x12 cabs are approximately 20 x 30 x 11 inches and they have about 6500 cubic inches of volume.

The box design is acoustically less critical than that for hi fi or pa systems but proper construction is essential.