Celestion G10 Creamback 8 Ohms Reviews

It gives me the ideal rock tone

My Peavey Envoy has these wonderful Transtube distortions but after a while the cheap Blue Marvel speaker showed it is lacking in tone beauty, especially with the metal distortion. So I switched to this speaker and the tone is just ideal. Even the metal sound that I thought was maybe too harsh and brittle is creamy, very hard creamy but creamy. I could write a lot but enough sound samples are in YouTube that the comparison is easy. This is the most professional and pleasing tone.

Could be the perfect speaker swap for the Vox AC10C1

The Vox will only take a shallow speaker with a reasonable diameter magnet. No Alnicos will fit in there. But the Creamback models the Vox Alnico sound of its 12" brothers with a bit more chime than a Greenback. That makes it a great upgrade for the VX10. The stock speaker isn't bad at all, but the Creamback is nicer. Full bass and mids, with the chiming top end, but no piercing ice-pick.

I have installed this speaker in my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe II, as a replacement for a Vintage 30 12". My goal was to get a better, livelier sound at low a volume level.

The V30 sounds a bit dull and muddy and I reckoned that a smaller speaker would require less energy to come alive.

I'm very pleased that it worked out really well, the speaker has a very precise low-end and a nice chime. Even at a low volume level. I never play loud, so I can't let you know how it compares at high volume levels.

I also tried the G12M-65, the sound is somewhere inbetween the V30 and G10, however I preferred the G10.

I'm using an attenuator to reduce the volume, so I can turn up the amp volume a bit. (The tubes/valves of the power-amp require a decent signal amplitude in order to create the pleasant harmonics that are caused by the non-linear amplification of a tube/valve). The attenuator may influence the sound somewhat, however, without the attenuator, the amp sounds definitely worse to my ears.