Seismic Audio - 12" GUITAR SPEAKER CABINET EMPTY - 7 Ply Birch - 2x12 Speakerless Cab NEW 212 Orange Tolex - Black Cloth Grill - Front or Rear Loading Options

Very surprised at the quality/cost ratio. I needed a cab quickly and didn't have mesa cab money.I had speakers in spades so I rolled the dice after some research. It arrived in two days free shipping andwithout flaws, thank you FedEx! (even a blind squirrel finds an acorn from time to time). It's much bigger than expected but not a deal breaker. Fit & finish exceeded all expectations.Tried different combos of speakers and ended up sticking with the GT-75s for now.It's well built but not too heavy and sounds like one would expect if you have played through 2x12sbefore. Huge bottom end (more so with the 75s) but for a tele/strat rock player it's moot. Les Paul needssome eq tweaks for my taste but manageable, I don't play anything heavier than sabbath/gov't muleso it works for me. Nothing an eq pedal or a hi pass/lo cut filter won't solve. I think the dropped C andlower tuning players will dig it. My opinion: If you have speakers you like and like the tone and mobility of a 2x12, get it!Hope this helps a guitar player somewhere, somehow, some time.

I purchased this empty CAB as I wanted to build out my own with the speakers I wanted to put in it. Sure, I could have gutted my other cabs and replaced those speakers, but I love my other cabs the way they are, and I am not interested in gutting a higher end cab just to do some "speaker play" with various speaker type blending, so this was PERFECT!I decided on Swamp Thang and DV-77 for my needs and tests, so when this CAB arrived I was ready to rock and roll (pun intended).I opened this box, and it was perfectly packed. Corners protected, surfaces protected / foamed, and all was right with the world. It survived shipping without any damage or even a slight scuff anywhere to be seen, so the packaging was top notch.After initial inspection, I lined up the speakers with the screw holes, and this is where I deducted a single star. The holes were not lined up properly for a standard speaker mount... this has been noted in other reviews as well, and I can vouch for the same... HOWEVER, this is not a huge deal as I just used standard wood screws to secure the areas where the holes did not line up properly... problem solved without any real issue... so get some decent wood screws that are and inch or so long, and you will be just fine... the other holes line up with a majority of the speaker, so I used the included screws for all that and it worked beautifully.Once loaded up, and configured for my first test @ 4ohm for the speakers I chose, I connected several of my amps.... Most of your tone will come from your speakers, there is no denying this fact, and it's been scientifically proven over and over again... part of that equation is your CAB and it's materials, size, baffle, etc... let me tell you.... are you paying attention?!?!?!? THIS CAB SOUND PHENOMENAL!!!!!! Could this be a combination of the speakers I chose and my other gear? maybe..... BUT.... I decided to test to see if it was just a coincidence with what I had chosen... so I took my Vintage 30's out of one of my older Marshal cabs, and WOW was I amazed at how they sounded in this Seismic Audio cab over the Marshall cab they came from!The V30's sounded killer in the Marshall cab, but in this new Seismic Audio 2x12 cab they sounded even "heavier" with some more low end, and a growl that just turns my metal / hard rock love meter ALL THE WAY TO 11!TL;DR: This is a great CAB at a great price. It's solid, constructed really well, and the only thing I would modify is the mounting pattern for the speakers as they aren't perfectly lined up with modern speaker layouts in mind, but that is easily fixed. You can't go wrong with this guy, I can promise you that.

Playing guitar and tinkering are two of my frequent hobbies. Over the past couple of years, I've designed and 3D printed two guitar speaker cabinets- a 4x6 and 2x10 cab. These were feasible because I was able to 3D print one cabinet shell for a speaker in one go. Both cabs are loaded with Eminence Legend speakers in their respective sizes.Recently, I bought a Boss Katana guitar amp head, and it's become my main all 'round amp. One problem is it puts out too much bass for my poor little 4x6 cab. As timing would have it, Eminence Texas Heat speakers were on a slight sale, so I bought two with the intent of 3D printing a cab for them.I bit off more than I could chew. Not only would I have had to print the cabinet shells in multiple pieces, but the cost of filament placed the cost of the cab nearly $100 more than this Seismic cab cost, and that's under the assumption that none of the prints would fail!I saw another reviewer of this cabinet installed Texas Heat speakers in his cabinet with no issues, so I felt good about buying this cab. I was saving money and installing the speakers would be a breeze. Well....That's not how this little venture went down.As you can see in the photo of the cab's inside before I installed the speakers, the cabinet has steel inserts to make mounting the speakers easy. The cab comes with eight M4 machine screws that thread into the inserts. IF your speakers' mounting holes line up with the inserts, then installing the speakers is easy.The inserts DID NOT LINE UP WITH MY SPEAKERS' MOUNTING HOLES!! I blame the manufacturer here. One other reviewer didn't have this issue, and to return to my discussion about my 3D printed speaker cabs, I didn't either.As mentioned, I chose Eminence speakers for both, and designed and began 3D printing the cabinet shells before I ever received the speakers (all of them bought here on Amazon). I simply went to Eminence's website and downloaded the spec sheets for the speakers, using data from the sheets to place speaker mounting holes in the cabinet shells respective 3D models in my modelling software, so I wouldn't have to do any drilling to the prints. Each speaker dropped right in to it's printed cabinet shell and lined up with no issues when I got the speakers and the cabinet shells came off the 3D printer.My point here is if someone reading this doubts it was the manufacturer's fault, my argument is why did another reviewer not have this issue, and why did I not have issues with speakers from the same manufacturer fitting correctly when I, a mere basement tinkerer, designed my own cabinets from scratch?As luck would have it, I had M4 bolts and nuts and I REALLY didn't want to box this cabinet back up and send it back. I positioned the speakers in this cabinet then marked and drilled new mounting holes, using the included bolts with washers and nuts sourced by me. You can see by the photos that it isn't pretty, but it got the speakers solidly mounted.I chose to wire the speakers in series to get a total impendence of 16 ohms, but kept the wiring for two parallel speaker jacks. As I connected the speakers, I would gently tug on the connectors to ensure they were tightly attached to the speakers' tabs. Aaaaaand as you can see by another of the photos, one of the connectors came off it's wire when I tugged on it. Another obvious show of poor workmanship.Some of the wire connectors were properly crimped AND soldered to the wires, and some, like the failed connector in the photo, were only loosely crimped onto the wire. As luck would AGAIN have it, I had some near-identical connectors from wiring up the speakers in my 3D printed cabinets, so I removed all the connectors to this cabinet's wiring that weren't soldered on, and crimped on connectors sourced from my personal supply. I'll quickly note that as the other reviewer I've been referencing stated, the back of this cabinet will likely require a few very firm strikes with a mallet to knock it out after you remove it's screws, but reinstalling the cabinet back is easily done.At last, I was able to button up this cabinet and try it out. And here's where I can finally say something good about this cabinet: I like it's resonance and response.Low's are tight yet thump firmly, no sogginess or mud here. Mid's are very clear and enunciated. High frequencies ring out nicely as well. Simply put, I feel this cabinet offers a well rounded response to the Texas Heat speakers, not prioritizing any particular frequency. And that's what I wanted.Thanks to this cabinet's parallel jack configuration, I have this cabinet connected to my 3D printed 2x10 cabinet. With the Boss Katana plugged in, I'm getting some very smooth and balanced tones through this odd stack of mine.In closing, I hesitate to recommend this cabinet though. For all the modifications I had to do to this cabinet and hardware I had to source because of the poor workmanship, I may as well just have gone to Home Depot or Lowes, had some planks cut to size, and built my own 2x12 cabinet seeing as I've got the tools and hardware to do it. But, as you can see in the photos, the completed cabinet looks great sitting in the corner I've placed it in, and as stated, I'm liking it's response to the speakers I installed! I suppose that if you don't want to build a cab from scratch but are handy and have extra supplies around, then this cabinet is an option. Otherwise, I would say either build your own, look elsewhere, or buy a used cab and swap speakers.

A tab bigger then I wanted but looks and functions as advertised.

got it on sale--good construction