® G212 Vintage Custom Cabinet

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    This is the new full sized Avatar Vintage 212 guitar cab. It is styled after the famous Bluesbreaker 212 cab from the 60's. It features a slanted front speaker baffle board to point the speakers up slightly towards the player. The construction is voidless Birch Plywood and comes with black tolex and grille color choice.   It is available with either a closed back panel or split two piece back for variable partial open back options.  The two piece back allows you to have the opening at the top, middle or bottom of the cab for different tone responses. With the opening in the middle you get more mids and highs radiating out into the room from the back of the speaker cones....with the opening at the top, you get a little more low end and with the opening at the bottom, you get even more bass reflecting off of the floor.

    With the closed back panel, you get a very focused sound coming off of the front of the speaker cones but with a strong bass. This deluxe cab has two recessed round metal bar handles and a rear metal jack plate with dual 1/4 inch jacks for daisy chaining with other cabs. Switchcraft jacks and thick oxygen free internal speaker wire are standard.

    The two 12's are rear loaded with T Nuts which makes it easy to swap out speakers for tone experimenting. We have many choices of quality Celestion guitar speakers to fit your precise tone preferences.  Please go to Celestion.com to read about or to listen to sound samples to help you decide which are best for your playing style and TONE requirements. 

(The picture on the right shows Kelly Pickler's guitarist Ryan Ochsner with the Vintage 212 Cab at recent  '08 ACM award show live on CBS)

    It has been our experience that some of the favorite speaker combinations are two 'industry standard' Celestion   Vintage 30's for Superb high power tone and for the widest variety of music styles and for a great deal of presence to really cut through the mix in a 120 watt cab. 

  One Celestion Vintage 30 and one G12H30 for a slightly deeper, warmer sounding tone as a  60 watt cab, or two Celestion G12H30s for a real rich,  sweeter overdrive tone at 60 watts. 

  The Celestion Greenback will give this cabinet early cone break up for classic warm low wattage tone at 25 watts each.

  The Celestion G12T75 (used in many Marshall cabinets) have lots of crunch, big bass, scooped mids and sizzling highs at 75 watts each.

  For fantastic, natural sounding high power clean tones, the 80 watt Celestion Classic Lead 80s are the Celestions that most faithfully reproduce your signal rather than to add any color or character to your tone....Classic lead 80's are great for modeling type amps or situations where you want neutral clean clear reproduction.

    For the lower powered  high end boutique tube amps, two Celestion Alnico Blue's have the most wonderful chime and creamy midrange to them in a 30 watt cab or consider the mix of one Alnico BLUE and one G12H30 for half chime and half warm overdrive. A lot of guys that have boutique amps really like the Celestion Blue/G12H30 combination. 

   Our Hellatones are also great because the Hellatone 30 is a slightly broken in  Celestion G12H30 and the Hellatone 60 is a slightly broken in Celestion Vintage 30. 

  For the ultimate in vintage alnico chimey tone, the new 50 watt Celestion Alnico Golds have the same wonderful chime as the lower powered Blues but are rated at 50 watts each speaker rather than 15 watts.

   The  Vintage cab dimensions are 30"W x 24.5"H x 12"D. 15mm Birch Plywood. Weight is approximately 59 lbs depending on speakers.

This cab is only available in black tolex but is now available with our other grill cloths such as wheat, black, oxblood, vintage oxblood with gold stripe, fender, silver/black weave, gold/black weave grill.

 Vintage cabs are not sold on a trial basis and are not returnable. You get a One year limited warranty. The cab does come with four rubber feet on the bottom but they have just been cropped out of the photos.