Mayer Crossroad Festival Rig

[topbrent]

Daniel from Port City posted this pic on tgp back in Feb 2010.

The upper speakers are Celestion G12-65's. The bottom left are Alnico Gold's. The bottom right are the new Celestion G-12 Century Vintage.

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[bluesfendermanblues]

How about the rack rig on the left - does it belong to mayer or another festival artist??

[mbeldyga]

It's John's.

[Structo]

Man, technology sure has changed things.

Quite a difference from the 70's walls of amps and speakers.

Fortunately the PA systems have improved over the years and as long as they don't crank the systems to a bazillion decibels, the sound quality can be quite good.

I was at a concert a few years ago where the opening act was a female who played acoustic with four other band members.
There was an electric guitar, bass, keyboards and drums.
The mix was perfect.
The overall sound was very nice, sort of like listening to a recording at a high level but not painfully loud.

Then the headliner came on and the sound guys pushed all the faders to the stops.
Instantly the sound sucked.
Huge sub woofers drowning out most everything and the mix was so loud and distorted you couldn't even recognize what song they were playing until quite a ways into it.

I never understood that, I know they want to be king of the hill and loud and all that but when the level is painfully loud and distorted it just stops being fun.
The advent of subwoofers hasn't helped much IMHO, especially in small venues.

[boldaslove6789]

Widespread panic has a killer PA rig, best sound quality I've ever heard live, Jimmy herring kills it every time too!

[groovtubin]

I saw the back of the cabs on another site recently.

One cab had a pair of Celestion Golds, one had Celestion G12 Century Vintages (neodymium) and at least one (possibly both) of the other cabs had G12-65's.

Can't say which pairings were for which amps though.

I saw him using this rig on his recent UK Tour, it did sound great in Manchester Apollo. However, I had a pair of Celestion Vintage Neo's and I absolutely hated them, they were awful in my opinion.
Now, the Jensen Neo's are a different matter, I'm getting to really like those.

Years ago no-one believed me when I said I saw Robben Ford with a pair of G12T75's in his Dumble cab, and he sounded great! It's true, honest!

Rob.

Used a celestion century neo in a 1 x 12 combo w/reverse polarity and it was stunning, sounded better than the marshall cabs the guy had! Worth a shot if you ever get another one. Lightest 100 watt combo EVER MAN!

jim@Omegaamps

[nickm57]

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looks like they are only micing 2 speakers in the other photo.
You will not hear all the speaker out front or on Youtube.
I also see a Leslie switch...
seems he has a touch of the eric johnsons.