PRICE: $ 253 USD
Speaker cabinet emulation devices can be broadly broken into two categories - analog and impulse responses (IR). IRs, while accurately capturing whatever cabinet and mic was used when the IR was taken, typically have very limited or no control options. They are fixed ‘snapshots’ of a specific cab, mic and room combination and if you aren’t happy with a particular IR you either have to accept it or search through a bank of IRs until you find one you do like. Analog speaker cab emulators, while often giving more adjustment options are also often too dark, too fizzy, not complex enough, too comb filter-ish, or just get something wrong in the frequency response somewhere.
The AXiom Speaker Cab Emulator SCE-1 is a sophisticated 100% analog speaker cab emulator that is based on the frequency responses of 82 speaker cab and mic combinations, with controls that were meticulously tuned to accurately reproduce their defining characteristics while providing extensive control over all the critical parameters. You can go from the response of a huge, ported bass cab to a closed-back British 4x12, to an open-back American 2x12, to a 1x12... even a 1x8. The SCE-1 can capture the throaty mids of vintage cabs or the scooped mids of modern cabs, the smoothness of distance miking or the phase cancellations of putting the mic against the grill cloth, the extended high-end of ceramic speakers or the upper-mid presence of alnico speakers. You get precise and realistic control over the resonant frequency of the cab, speaker size, mic position and distance from the grille, speaker baffle rigidity (stiff/fixed to "floating"), cab construction style (open vs. closed back) and speaker magnet type (ceramic vs. alnico). Not only does it sound like a real miked cab, it gives you an easily adjustable, endless variety of them at your fingertips.
- 100% analog circuitry
- Based on the frequency responses of 82 speaker cab and mic combinations.
- Runs on standard 9Vdc but steps the voltage up internally to 18V for maximum headroom.
- A RESonance control that adjusts the strength of the cabinet's resonant peak and a FREQuency control that adjusts the frequency at which the cab resonates (from 85 Hz to 210 Hz). You can reproduce anything from the response of a massive, ported cab to a small practice amp.
- A SPKR control that adjusts from 8" to 15" speakers.
- MIC controls that reproduce the effects of mic DISTANCE from the grille (near to far) and mic POSITION (from the center of the speaker to the edge of the cone).
- A BAFFLE control that emulates the influence that speaker baffle stiffness and construction has on frequency response. (Stiffer baffles have more mid frequency cancellations whereas floating baffles produce more "throaty" mids.)
- Cerm/Alnico settings that reproduce the extended high-end response of ceramic speakers and the accentuated high-mids typical of Alnico speakers.
- Open and Closed cabinet construction settings that accurately emulate the low-end resonance characteristics of open and sealed cabinets.
- Individually handmade
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