"The best guitar speaker on the planet" Steve Kimock/The Other Ones "The Tubb's are it." More from Steve about his gear at Kimock.com Click on Gear |
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"They're the shit, great sonic spread!" Terry Haggerty/Sons of Champlin "I played Luther Burbank Center last night and my twin Tone Tubbies were like laser beams, as solid as the cables on the Golden Gate Bridge!! Out of twenty guitar players on the bill, my rig shined brightly." "It don't get no fatter than my Tone Tubbies" Randy Hansen |
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"Definitely in the Bulldog family, incredible" Peter Young/Bobby Whitlock "Very English" Chick Peterson/Petaluma,CA |
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"The speakers are awesome. They are warm but lots of body and presence. It doesn't break up as easily thus a lot more clarity."
Billy Shen/Tainted Love, SF
I received my Tone Tubby 2 days ago and installed it in my SF Princeton Reverb. I'm tempted to write things like "cosmic tone truth", "tubby chubby", "alnico grail", ect. to try to describe the immediate satisfaction I'm getting from working with this speaker. When I heard you guys were using your 25+ years of experience to really "nail" this one special speaker of your own I thought, ...this could be killer...and it is. I have been playing professionally for many years and have had lots of stuff. This somewhat rare occurrence when something really delivers like this is a wonderful thing.Thank You.
Ray B/Boston, Mass.
The new Brown 2-12 pine cabinet with two Tone Tubby alnicos is the best sounding new speaker I've heard in a long time. It's incredibly accurate (you'll think about replacing pre-amp tubes because you can hear the difference). It has a wide and even tonal response in all registers, and it projects a clean, bell-like tube sound as well as a grittier overdriven signal with equal finesse.
I tried the cabinet with several vintage fender heads before deciding on the best set up for my sound. I also compared it to some vintage jensens. As you'd expect, it has a deeper, fatter sound (on the bottom) than a 4-p10r set-up. It also has brighter upper-mids, which is not surprising as it's new, not a 40-year-old magnet with recones. Curiously, I found the 2-12 was the perfect compliment to a 4-10 set-up, expanding the overall richness and drama of the amp set up. I also found that the 2-12 is able to generate feedback at a very low volume - by using the right amount of fingerboard vibrato and sitting in front of the speaker - which is a great trick. It means you you don't have to kill your bandmates or audience to get into that zone of cool tone.
Steven Rosenfeld/The Spodee Odees, (an unknown SF band)
"Their Sick!." Mark Karan/The Other Ones (Grateful Dead), Ratdog
"They’re sort of like an upgraded version of the old 15 Watt Vox Celestion Blue Speaker, sort of a cross breed between those and the old beautiful Jenson’s that Fender used to use back in the Tweed days, P12Ns I believe they’re called. I’m a tone freak, but I don’t go quite as far into it as Steve does." [laughs]
More from Mark about his gear at MK's World Click on Interviews
This balanced sounding speaker has a character of it's own that enhances, rather than gets in the way, of your sound...great mid-range punch with tight, solid bass and a smooth, refined top end. Thanks to Brown Soun, I got a great sounding, great looking cab that fits in the front seat of my 'Vette!
Rob Gillette/The Fabulous Jammies, San Jose
I just wanted to tell you that the Tone Tubby's are working out great. I am running stereo with 1 1x12 on each side of the stage and and it is butter-licious. The very first gig that I used them, someone came up to me who had never seen us before and told me that my tone was "hypnotic!" She said that she had never heard a guitar sound like that before. I took that as a huge compliment and you should too. As I continue to become familiar with their sound, I keep finding subtle adjustments that make the tone absolutely sing. I play slide mostly, so the effect is even greater. When I got my custom acoustic guitar, I felt like it made me a better player. I feel the same way about your speakers, like they bring me to another level.
Brandon Creasman/The Electric Magi, Detroit
I wanted to let you know that I really like your 12" speaker - I put it in my '67 Deluxe Reverb and took it to the Sonoma County Blues Society Blues jams. At these Jams I typically play along with 60 and 100 watt Mesas and Fender Supers and Twins etc. (and a lot of really loud amps) but I have no trouble cutting through. I love that set up with either my '55 Les Paul copy with P-90's or my Tele'...just wanted to let you know.
Roger Lachenbruch/San Rafael, CA
"Fuller sound, more frequencies. Beautiful rich bottom"
Chris Hayes /Huey Lewis & The News.
Chris's Mesa Boogie Cab with Tubbs