fenderguru.com Fender Vibroverb EVM 15L speaker
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- On request we have made a short video demonstrating the tone of a 1964 Fender Vibroverb with a 60s EVM 15L speaker, also famously known as the speaker Stevie Ray Vaughan used in his Vibroverbs. As you can hear it has razor sharp treble and a firm, punchy low end. It is a very difficult speaker to get a smooth and decent tone out of. It requires some experience with guitar pickups, pedals and EQ settings to achieve a balanced tone and to tame the ear-bleeding treble.
The amp has a stock setup with no modifications in circuit or with tubes. It is a very clean sounding amp and therefore we have thrown in an Okko Twinsonic overdrive pedal. If we had Cezar Diaz' mods implemented to this amp with tremolo disconnect, diode rectifier and a Twin Reverb output transformer, the amp would have been even louder and more powerful. That was not the point with this demo. Maybe some other time
We always get questions about pickups. So here you are; Lindy Fralin Vintage Hot. The overdrive pedal is an Okko Twinsonic. The octavizer pedal is a Mythos Argos Octave Fuzz
Getting great sounds seems to be a common denominator in all your videos! Keep making them!
EV in the late 60s made the SRO, massive alnico magnet, super sweet and natural tone, one of the best speakers of all time. Then they made the SRO12L and SRO15L in the early seventies, which evolved into the grey metallic EV speakers they made up until the mid eighties I think when they when to series II
I love your tone dude! Sounding amazing
Wow, really brings out that unique attack!
Badass tone 👌👌
Can you try this speaker thru a bassman? Just got an incredible result of that amp speaker combo
That setup! Wow
Sounds good to me. I have one ready to into my Vibroverb clone I just built. Will be interesting. Will have to be pretty special to justify the weight.
Mine needs recone. :-( Will ship to Weber most likely.
Speakers are the most important tone filter imho, after the guitar (or other instrument) itself, and ALL guitars are "acoustic" guitars - including solid body "electric" guitars. Whatever kind of guitar you are putting pickups on, the sound of the guitar is what they are amplifying - in Europe they sometimes call pickups "microphones". Even a pedal steel guitar has a sound played without amplification, which is then amplified by the pickups - it isn't ALL the pickups making the tone! If you listen to a pedal steel played without being turned on, it does have a sound, the same sound that is amplified. The two ends of the signal chain - instrument and speaker - are the most important tone filters.
tell that your distortion pedal, 18m of cable & your amp's preamp lmao
Hell yeh
What 's the Silverface Amp Head above the Vibroverb Amp ? Great playing & tone...!
Would like to see this compared to the JBL D130F and the Eminence Legend. I have those and will be doing my own comparison but would love to see what you get also.
wheres the comparison video n
@@uhMaxx Sorry, I didn't mean to say I would be doing a video. Just doing my own comparison. But for what it's worth vintage JBL D130F is my top pic, then tied for 2nd would be Eminence and Weber Neomag 15 and Weber California ceramic, all great speakers just a little different. I now have 3 EVM 15L speakers. Two original in pristine condition and one reconed by Weber. They are OK but honestly just a little too sterile and hi-fi in my opinion for a guitar speaker. A great guitar speaker imparts a little special something and the JBL D130F certainly defines this as it has something that I can't describe other than being simply wonderful. I have 3 or 4 of those and they all are very special.
Patrick I agree I had a Weber California ceramic until I found a clean JBLD130F and when I put that thing in it sounded glorious. Nothing beats it. Has a unique cone curve like a trumpet. Ted Weber schooled me on it when he was still alive. The Weber Ceramic California was also cool but a little less special. JBL has that nice tinkle on top. Beautiful sound. A guy heard me playing one night through it and not offered me 5 grand and a 65 Blackface Vibrochamp so I took it. But I regret selling it. I found that amp for 600. and bought the old JBL D130f for 100. Those were the good old days. Late 90's.
@@BlackDotPatrick what amp did you run these speakers thru?
@@uhMaxx I built two blackface Vibroverb clone amps.
The black frame is not stock or normal. I am wondering if the cone is original and also if the dust cap is the original oversized paper or aluminum trying to be JBL? This would help explain the brightness...but Fender amps are bright anyway plugged into the Hi jack without the bright switch activated.
Black frame is stock. This is clearly an 80's EVM Series II. No idea why the video description calls it a "60's EVM"
Doesn’t a EVM 15L has 8 ohm impedance and the vibroverb 4 ohm impedance?
No the Vibroverb is an 8 ohm amp.
How loud is the amp
probably on around 5, pretty loud
Would the 15L fit in an original vibroverb or would a custom baffle be needed?
It fits. But very heavy speaker and causes stress and wear on baffle board. Be careful with transport.
Try one of the Neomags by eminence or Weber. Neo mags are kind of half way between alnico and ceramic tone wise. You want something with some top end sparkle to bring out the best in a Vibroverb or similar. 15 inch speakers are great with strata. I don't care for 15's with Gibson guitars though.
No!!!!
You must replace the output transformer…