[Scott Dorsey]

James Price wrote:
In your experience, would a guitar speaker (not bass guitar speaker) be
capable of producing low frequencies around 40 Hz at any output? I
ask because I was privy to a discussion where it was claimed that 1) they
don't have the excursion needed to produce frequencies that low and 2) the
wavelength comes into play; speaker excursion can't deal with waveforms
that long. There was also mention of guitar speaker cabinets being designed
for mid-bass on up to around 5 kHz, the implication being that they likewise
aren't designed or capable of reproducing frequencies that low.

If you put a 40 Hz sine into a typical guitar speaker with an open-backed
guitar cabinet, you will get a lot of sound out. A very tiny bit of that
will be at 40 Hz and most of it will be at higher frequencies resulting from
the cone breakup.

The high cabinet tuning and speaker breakup are where a lot of the sound
of the amp come from.

Open E string on a guitar is only 83Hz anyway... why design a cabinet for
use below the lowest frequency you can play?
--scott


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