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Posted by Dropout on June 26, 2017 at 5:09pm in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

Hey guys first post here. I recently purchased a cbg and love it. I find myself playing with it more than my actual guitars. I debated with building one but figured it best to have one i could study before doing my own. Right now i have a box i purchased from ebay on the way. My plans for it are to build a little amp to go with my cbg. However I cant find any small rectangular speakers on cb gitty. Is there another source you have to get them?

thanks,

nate

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  • JL July 5, 2017 at 10:31am

    you could try to mount the speaker sideways inside the box then just cut some sound holes in convenient places that keeps your box's graphics in tact.

  • Clark Rowden July 2, 2017 at 8:49am

    You could cut around the "face" graphic leaving a sliver of wood on either side to maintain support and then, use some wire screen or grill cloth to cover the void. Mount the speaker centered with the face graphic's center.

    This should act like a Beam Blocker ( https://www.tedweber.com/wbb12-4 ) which may tame some of the shrillness that small speakers have any way... two birds - one stone.

  • Dropout June 30, 2017 at 7:36pm

    This is the box i plan on using. Its rather large as you can see. But I dont want to mess up the picture and logo. Could i run 3 speakers in it and use the 14 watt amp?306627153?profile=original

    • Timothy Hunter > Dropout July 2, 2017 at 7:35am

      use a 6"car speaker and have the opening on the back? that way you wont ruin the graphic...

  • Cause the Blue rat June 27, 2017 at 9:19am

    Put a round speaker behind a square hole. What's it going to hurt? Resulting sound depends on the size of the speaker to the size of the hole. If most of the speaker is covered you will end up with a bit of a nasaly sound. Losing some of the low end. If you find you've ended up with a shrilly sound put a square of wood directly in front if the center of the speaker. On the grill. Experiment with the size of this square. 

  • Paul Craig June 27, 2017 at 5:12am

    What are your cabinet dimensions?

    What are your amp's output in watts and ohms?

    • Dropout > Paul Craig June 27, 2017 at 6:30am
      That's a bummer. I picked that amp because it has tone knobs and led prewired in the board. Any suggestions for something similar that would work?
      • JL > Dropout June 27, 2017 at 8:38am

        A) mount the amp circuit in the box you ordered, run the output to a jack and label it "SPEAKER" and mount your speaker(s) in a separate box with a jack, like a professional head and cabinet stack...in the speaker cab wire up 4 of the gitty 3in 4w speakers, 2 pairs of series and then wire the 2 pairs in parallel, label the jack "8ohm/16w".

        B) mount the speakers buried inside the box and cut a custom hole in the box to  "port" the sound out, like the fancy BOSE soundwave thingy

        • Timothy Hunter > JL June 28, 2017 at 7:29am

          good idea JL. mini stacks can look cool..

    • Dropout > Paul Craig June 27, 2017 at 5:54am
      I'm still waiting on the cigar box to get here. So no dimensions yet. The amp I want to use is a 14watt nightfire not sure about ohms.
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