Devildriver Tour!
01 August 2010
Santa Barbara's Devildriver are Celestion's latest awesome metal endorsees. Right now they're in the middle of a massive world tour, for their gut-punching new album, "Pray for Villains". - Read more
Welcome to a World of Tone
06 July 2010
Celestion's Rick Skillman walks Shawn Hammond from Premier Guitar magazine through a whole World of Tone, at the NY Amp show. Check it out....
Celestion @ NY Amp Show
Props to our friends at Premier Guitar for giving us the opportunity to show off!
Celestion and Annihilator at Hellfest
21 June 2010
Check out the latest vid from Celestion-loaded metal giants Annihilator who were spreading the word at the Hellfest, Clisson, France on June 20th. Annihilator @ Hellfest - Read more
19 January 2006
With sales topping the one million mark and a recent endorsement from Steve Stevens, Celestion couldn't be happier to mark the 20th anniversary of the Vintage 30 speaker in 2006.
The Vintage 30, originally introduced in 1986, was developed after extensive research into crafting a speaker that could reproduce the classic Alnico sound with a ceramic magnet — a more cost-effective material. It was hailed as an instant classic both by those who were familiar with Celestion's legendary quality, and new players alike.
Its 100dB sensitivity was apparently twice as loud as anything else at the same power level — the Vintage 30 was able to handle massive overdrive sounds with plenty of headroom and ease. Featuring tight bass, fat mids and a smooth, harmonically rich top end, its superior tone has made the Vintage 30 incredibly popular. In fact, we believe the Vintage 30 is likely to be found in a wider range of cabs and combos than any other premium speaker on the planet!
At a time when Alnico was prohibitively expensive, Celestion found its ‘H’ magnet came closest in performance to Alnico. Pioneering methods like Laser Doppler Interferometry were employed to analyze the cone behavior of an original Alnico Blue, and Celestion’s R&D Department was able to capture a precise model of the vintage speaker characteristics and apply it to this new speaker design. A new cone was used (similar to that of the Alnico Blue), and a new coil assembly was added, utilizing modern materials with similar mass and physical properties to the originals, yet better able to handle the extra heat generated by operating with higher power equipment.
The result was an authentically vintage sounding speaker, released during a rising demand for classic loudspeakers such as the G12H30 — this is why the speaker became known as the Vintage 30. On the 20th anniversary of this enduring favorite, Celestion players the world over are still celebrating the truly distinct tonal quality of the Vintage 30 speaker.
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