Tone Tubby Speakers Hempcone Speaker

I have four 10" Tone Tubby hempcones 2 Ceramic, 2 Alnico mounted in 2 2x10 cabinets.
Impedance: 16 Ohms
Alnico: 40 watts 8 bolt with 5" bell cover, 22 Oz Magnet. Copperclad aluminum edgewound coil.
Ceramic: 40 watts 8 bolt 42 Oz Magnet

mostly Les Paul type guitars, Humbuckers and P90s 1 Tele, Super Strat, 1 hardtail Strat, 1 SG. I'm using three amps. A Marshall JTM45 head, a modded Valve Junior head, and a Marshall AVT50H.

One word describes the sound of a hempcone speaker. S M O O T H w/ no flub and no mud.

These appear to be built on Eminence frames, seem as rugged as any.

I've heard that Brown Sound has good support.

The two cabs are wired parallel 8 ohms, w/ 1 alnico and 1 ceramic in each. These will handle some power, but also sound well with the Junior. Had some issues matching up speakers with the JTM. This solved it and is a good replacement for the original cabs. Very Marshally and British, Fenders or HBs. With P90s the sound is quite thick. These are the best speakers I've ever owned, but at this price, they should be.

Don't think there is a speaker for everybody. Certainly, everybody wouldn't like smooth, and these aren't jangley like the Fender reissue speakers. However, if you haven't experienced a hempcone speaker you should at least try them. Started out with a Lil' Buddy and I've used the Cannabis Rex (both have Brown Sound hempcones) and was just floored. There is no flub or mud. Now I've moved up to real thing, and this is my speaker.

I have Tone Tubby speakers in 3 of my amps: A 66' Fender Blackface Deluxe Reverb; A 66' Fender Blackface Super Reverb; and a red tolex repro Marshall Bluesbreaker 2x12 cabinet with a custom built Marshall 18 watt clone chassis. I play blues and classic rock and these amps with the tone tubby's are par excellence for those particular jobs.

I have an alnico 12" tone tubby hempcone speaker in my 66' Deluxe Reverb with Tung Sol 6V6's JJ 5Y3GT and Groove Tube preamp tubes. After speaker break in (to loosen up the cone) my buddy and refurbisher of said amp says "it's the best amp I've ever heard" and thats over Blackface and Silverface Super Reverb amps that he's been able to compare with. I had A Broun Sound recone a 12" Celestion Greenback 25 watt speaker and a 12" Vox Silver Alnico 25 watt speaker with hempcones, both of which speakers I installed in a red tolex Marshall 2x12 "Bluesbreaker" repro combo, with a Marshall 18 watt repro chassis. My most recent application of Tone Tubby's, is 2-10" Ceramic Hempcone's and 2-10 Alnico Hempcone's in my 66' Fender Blackface Super Reverb. This amp has Groove Tubes 6L6's Sylvania GZ34 vintage NOS preamp tubes, and a Silverface Super Reverb pan. I tried something different however, in that I have a ceramic up top behind the power transformer and an alnico to the right of it on top. Below the ceramic I have the alnico, and to the right of that on bottom is the other ceramic speaker (in a X pattern) to give tight bass below and above with the alnico sweetness above and below as well. This has to be the best absolutely the best Fender clean, powerful bottom, deep lush reverb, that I've ever heard (and the 10"s haven't even been broken in yet).

No problems thus far, if there were, the guys at A Broun Sound are great to deal with regarding recone issues.

Samey Samey as reliability.

Great guys to deal with, it's too bad that the Alnico 12" and 10"s are not cheaper as I'd have them in a few more of my 4x12 and 4x10 configuration amps. So for value I'd have to say the Alnico versions are like buying Gold BUT Celestion Gold's and Blue's are no different pricewise, and I'd have to honestly say that the Tone Tubby's win out here.

Tone Tubby - Hemp Cone
40 watts on Valve amplification. 80 watts on Semiconductor amps.
60 Oz Ceramic Magnet.
Green color with Solder tag terminal connections.
12.8 Lbs.
Standard one-way driver

'The 12" Tone Tubby 40/40 is an answer to the much needed Ceramic style
12" guitar speaker. Superior tone, no cone cry, just full great tone.'

There is a trick to these speakers ... Break them in!!!
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When I first got the Tone Tubby, I put it right into my Rect-o-verb ... yukkk! No bottom, shrill sounding. It would have been OK for EVH riffs, but that's it. So, I put it in a single 12" sealed cabinet and played it on the back-side of the stage for several gigs (and lots of practices). Banged a Bass through it for a little while. After several hours of use, it loosened up. One year later, I put it back in my Rect-o-verb. WOW! what a difference! Warm, no ice-pick in the ear tones. Great clean, great distorted. I re-tube fairly regularly always using the same tube types and plate current(s). So, it's not the tubes that made the difference.

So far so good. Everything I've read, says this speaker is rated for 40 watts but some nut tried 60 and 75 and didn't blow it. I wouldn't try that (nor would I recommend doing so), but it tells me the rating seems to be conservative.

Any time I've called them, which was mostly when I was trying to understand the best speaker for an open back, 50 Watt combo, they were very helpful and willing to work through the questions I had to help me get the tone(s) I was looking for.

I hesitated on buying this speaker because I thought,'oh Crate uses them, and they aren't exactly high end amps'. But being open minded, and always looking to improve tone, I tried it and am VERY happy I did.

I own Vintage 30's, G75T's, EV's and a few other speakers. A Tone Tubby is worth adding to the list of some of my favorite speakers.

My biggest kudos are for the removal of the ice-pick in the ear tone I get in some models of EV (not all). Celestions are great speakers also, but some can be harsh (again depending on the model). The Tone Tubby isn't 'Dark' sounding, but it has a nice warmth and my amp can supply enough high end if I do want it to be ear piercing (like for recording). This speaker still allows you to cut through the mix with the rest of the band (I play with a 6 piece), and still give you the tones,clean and overdriven, that you need.

Has the right features: great sound and a great look.

Swapped this into my Deluxe Reverb RI and that amp has gone from pretty good sounding to oh my, wow-sounding. Any harshness in the treble area is gone. With the volume around 4-5, it sounds just so sweet, articulate and full with just the right amount of edge. Roll the volume up to 8 and it sings. Nicely compressed overdriven tones abound and pick attack is translated beautifully. Playing an 80's USA Tele with standard P/U's, no effects (waste o' time). For me, perfect...

Note: It is of the utmost importance that TT's be WELL broken in. They sound not very good otherwise (as do most speakers).

I guess I can depend on it. Mine's a couple years old and making no weird noises. The construction quality is on-point all around, so it seems solid.

I hear they're nice, but no experience personally.

15 years of my life have been spent with my Telecaster. I've had loads of other gear, as has everyone else. This has been my only setup for the last couple years, and isn't changing any time soon. Everybody that plays DRRI's says the stock speaker (Jensen ceramic) needs to go. I think it was a fine speaker, but really emphasized the harshness at higher volumes. I played an EV in here before I got the TT, just because I had it. It wasn't different enough to warrent a separate opinion from the Jensen, so, well...

10", Hemp Cone, AlNiCo

I build speaker cabinets as a serious hobby so I spend a lot of time comparing different speakers. I wanted to find a speaker with good rock sounds that sounded big, full and warm. I tested the Tone Tubby against both the Alnico and Ceramic Jensen 10s, a speaker out of a Laney 4 X 10" cab, a Weber, Silver Ten Ceramic and a Weber, Blue Pup ceramic. All the speakers were thououghly broken in, as was the Tone Tubby. It is useless to try to evaluate speakers without breaking them in. Most of the testing was done with an Emery Superbaby and an early JCM 800 50 watt amp. Of all the speakers tested, the TT was definitely my least favorite. With the Emery, all the speakers, with the exception of the TT sounded best with the tone knob somewhere around straight up. With the TT it had to be set to at least 3/4 the way up to get the right trebble and by then the bass had gone away. I could never use this speaker with amps without separate trebble and bass controls. I got better results with the Marshall but still found the speaker to be over-compressed, dull, lifeless, with no sparkle at all and constricted. It sounded like a packing blanket had been put over the cabinet. This is not an exaggeration. To make matters worse, the high frequencies shot straight forward with extremely narrow dispersion, much more so than any of the other speakers. I basically had to play directly in front of the cab. I feel bad giving anything a 1 but it says 1 if you can't stand the sounds and I can't stand the sound.

To give you a sense of my taste in speakers, my favorite 12" speakers are The Celestion Blue, Celestion G12-65 and Weber Blue Dog AlNiCoFor cleaner Fenderish amps, I like JBL D120s and EV FORCE speakers.

I have been playing guitars and have owned at least 40 amps since my first Deluxe Reverb in 1964.

I feel that the 10" Tone Tubby Hemp Cone, AlNiCo is a very limited speaker. I love dark, thick tones but this was just over the top. I don't mind spending money for great equipment but it is a very poor value at $259.00. I also felt that all the other speakers were at least as good if not better and that both Webers, especially the Blue Pup at $90.00 walked all over it in every category.

To be fair, I have no direct opinion of the 12" version and hear from people I know who have them. My understanding from them is they really only come into their own when in cabinets with a small rear port and when played at very high volume, which I don't do.

10" Ceramic Hempcone Speaker

This has been the single biggest improvement I've done for my amp, a custom vibrolux reverb. I chose these mostly because I didn't have the coin for the Alnicos. The fact that they are more efficient than the Alnicos was also a plus. I can only speak from my experience but these speakers sound amazing. The tone is just sick! I plan on putting them in my Super next. Truly an exceptional product for me!

No problems to report, beautiful build quality.

I've been playing 25 years. I'd spec these in any amp I use. I love 'em.

dude its a speaker

very sick sound. hemp. kimock digs em. You should hear em in my leslie.

um these speakers are little beasts. I cant bust em, ive played all kinds of octave pedals through them and even played my bass through my guitar amp for a couple hours one night, i know thats a big no no but hell its my shit, and it still rips, i actually think that may have helped break them in alot, not that they dont sound good out of the box after they loosen up they sound 5 times more incredible, i can tell through recordings a month ago when i got them.

i dunno im sure anyone who invented the hempcone speaker is probably pretty cool though.

i have played for 17 years and i got the 2 tone tubbies to replace my jensen p12s i had one in a peavey classic 30 combo amp and i put one in my leslie, which sounds sick. I also have a sunn 200s that i like to use as a guitar amp, something about 60 watts out of 6v6 just sounds so damn warm and creamy. And when i use my budda zen drive through the sunn and the tt's i get some of the straightest sound i have ever heard in my life. I like to play blues, jazz, rock, and alot of jam band stuff. I also own a blonde 79 strat, a semi hollow raven west rg450, a hollow body kay SG, a schecter diamond series bass, and an alembic epic bass, i have every mutron pedal except the octave divider and the green ringer, and the budda pedal which i believe i already mentioned. I cant wait for the tt bass 15's to come out so i can stick em in my 200s cab. exellent job to tone tubby I am very impressed.

well first i gotta say to the guy a couple submissions above me that, hello! you gotta let the friggin speakers get broken in before they are gunna sound good. especially if you are using an 18 watt budda to drive 80 watts worth of speakers. Of course its gunna sound like crap idiot your amps to puss to handle the speakers. But yeah, sorry, these are speakers and speakers dont really have features mine are alnico magged 12's and they sound bad ass and theyr red thats cool to.

Wow.. I can get just about any tone i want from these freakin speakers. I new i would love them after i saw kimock play out of them back in january and. i play a blonde 69 strat with lace holygrail single coils, a raven west rg450 semi hollow, a koa gibson sg full hollow body, and an alembic explorer body. All humbucks except strat. I get the tones i want when i want. I play clean with cranked reverb and i also like to play dirty but not metal dirty, think jerry garcia meets jimi hendrix. The tubbers sound fat as hell no matter what i do to them. I have two TT alnicos 12's under my two-rock custom reverb, and i also have 1 alnico and 1 he1 tt in my peavey classic 50 all sounding sick.I cant wait to try out the super bass boys in my bass amp and when the new 15's and neo's come out, ill probably have to own those to.

Of course theyr reliable, havent you seen the sticker with the ripped muscle on the back? But hell they are speakers and alnico is known not to hold its magnetism for longer than 10 or so years but usually thats something you know before you drop 3 bills on a speaker. I havent had a problem with mine.

Well when i put the new tubbiez in my classic 50, i accidentally dropped one of them while i was lifting it off the speaker braket and punched 4 nice little holes through 1 of the the brand new $300 speakers and i called ole buddy at tone tubby and they replaced it free of charge. you dont get much better than that, i mean i t was my stupid fault.

great speakers buy some.

I have these speakers in 4 of my cabs or amps. I have a tone tubby 2x12 cab, 1x12 cab and in 2 of my blackface Fender Deluxe's 66. I think you can use these speakers for any style of music. They now have at least 3 voicings to choose from the H1E being the most common. I have 3 of the H1E's and 1 of the original H1's.

These are probably the best speakers ever made, and they are made with amazing quality by John Harrison and crew over at Tone Tubbby headquarters. The speakers are very warm and rich, with NO CONE CRY or weird harmonics coming out at loud volumes. The one thing you must do with these speakers is break them in a lot to really hear what they can do. Out of the box they will sound tight and not have enought treble. At first I wasn't sure what to think about them due to the constricted kind of sound. I played the speaker for about a month off and on, and then one day when I was playing I realized how open and flat out beautiful my guitar was sounding, it was like I was listening into the amp, and the amp had a 3d kind of sound. This has happened with every tone tubby I own, and in every amp I have put them in. It just takes a while for this speaker to break in, so don't judge it to early.... give it time. So my advice is play them long and hard, and don't even think of forming an opinion before you have given the speaker time to do its thing.... break in is critical. Now I would not even think of getting another speaker for any of my gear, this one is just where its at. The alnico breaks up a little sooner than the ceramic, and the ceramic is slightly tighter in sound, but both are the best. So choose the one you want, you can't go wrong.

Built with amazing quality and should last a very long time.

John and Charlie run a first rate business as well as being 2 of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet. If you could wish success on someone, I can say that these guys deserve it. They will help you and work with you on your needs, and they are totally honest and trustworthy. Give them a call, you will not regret it.

This is just the best speaker ever, so I think that enough said. Other speakers just sound thin compared to this one. We are living in the new golden age of speakers.

Hempconed Celestion Vintage 30, with all them paper-coned limitations purged!

Celestion's engineers used 80s-era computer research to create a driver which they hoped would replicate Alnico Blue tonality, whilst being able to withstand greater wattage. A fat midrange & inherent creamy distortion when pushed, however, gave V30s their own unique harmonically-historical flavour. For vintage hi-fiers, V30s gave their solid-state units a complementary valvesque vibe. Even with that fat midrange, though, V30s were extremely unforgiving of their sonic source. If ya had challenging-to-da-ear amp tone, puss-league pickups, fat-fry-special strings, or a balsa wood copy, them V30s spared not a single nuance. Local techs have noted that almost all V30 complaints were actually amp-related technical travails. They have also noted that current V30s have a thinner tone than their 20th-century ancestors. So, for roughly $10 or so more than a standard V30, plus shipping, ya can get a Brown Soun hemp-reconed 70 watt cab-version V30, & finally hear that alnico-alchemy Celestions' engineers originally intended. That hemp cone also means ya gotta push yer amp harder to enter that distortion zone(perhaps the major paper-coned V30 complaint, along with cone cry). Which means more clean-n-clear headroom for that glorious alnicoesque tone. Hemp coned V30s added that missing ingredient to a Line 6 Spider II 30 & Peavey Transformer 112. Wired in series, hemp coned V30s converted a Fender FM-212R into a portable mini-stack. That sloppy 212R bottom wuz absorbed & transformed into full-fledged thunder when needed. Those maligned over-drive channels became polyphonic putty. Even the mid-contour Boogied to a Recto vibe. Betcha Slash has converted his V30s to hemp cone. Guitars are an Yngwie-ized Fender 50th-Anniversary Squire Strat, 77 Ibanez Les Paul Custom copy(with Dimarzio PAF & PAF Pro pickups), & Mexican Jazz Bass. Oh yeah bass heads, hemp coned V30s got that Rodney O-Joe Cooley everlastin' bass-type bottom.

About the only way to blow these pups iz to wire them directly into an a.c. plug. If ya got a reliable solid-state amp, but it's still missin' sum'pin, ya owes it to yerself to try a hemp-coned V30.

Brown Soun's crew are extremely professional, courteous, & knowledgable. They were also extremely papa-proud of their cabs' appearance in Vintage Guitar's March 2006 cover-story article on Carlos Santana. Brown Soun can be reached @ www.abrown.com.

Hemp coned V30s fulfill that 80s-envisioned alnico alchemy. Seductive tone that's damn near abuse-proof. Warms up solid state amps. Remember, modeling circuitry alone can't deliver "tube tone". Toss that stock speaker, pop in a hemp coned V30, & adjust yer chin strap.