Celestion Rocket 50

Built in 2007, Modified a Marshall Micro stack bottom cabinet and replaced the closed back 10" 16 ohm speaker with this 12". Also cut out the wood that held the Marshall name that runs down the center of the cabinet. Any other speaker that was deeper wound not fit unless you re-mounted the input jack. I use this with the Epiphone valve jr head. (8 ohms). This trebbely speaker works great for the muddy stock valve jr head, and has the handeling ability to go full blast with the amp.

I use a 70s Fender strat 3 Tex-Mex single coils. It suits the blues and classic rock style just fine. The speaker tightended up the bass and the flubby mids and cleared up the trebble. It was way better than the stock 10" speaker. With the back open it breathes and has more bass. On full volume it screams and is louder than the original speaker. The pnly mods on the amp is the JJ Telsa and TungSol tubes. Even at very very low volumes it is loud so I can get a clean tone up to about 1/4 up the dial which is plenty loud for the clean chanel. A lot of head room even with the high gain tungsol tube. Being a used speaker it is somewhat broken in so I can get clean and warm tones from it.

The speaker is solid with a lot of dope around the paper. The cabined (after structural modifications) is not as strong as intended, so I handel it with care.

I have played for over 35 years and have had owned a ton of stuff for electric and acoustic. I am searching for another used Marshall Micro Stac cabinet to make another and will use a crossover and a bass speaker to get more bottom end which this speaker lacks. I compared the statistics of other speakers costing much more and for me, and the purpose of this project, I could not see spending 4 to 5 times the amount on a new high end speaker with similar frequency responses and sensitivities. For the price this is a great value for the valve jr.

high resonance, small magnet, not as loud as most speakers.

I have a pair of these in an Orange 2x12 cab that i got off ebay expecting V30's. I was pretty pissed but then i plugged it in and started jamming on it.

My setup is a Fernandes Ravelle Deluxe (Duncan Distortion)>Modded Tubescreamer>Hughes and Kettner Triamp MK1>this cab.

I was actually surprised at how good the speakers sounded for cheap speakers. They werent cheap sounding at all. The only downfall i would say is the low end, it doesnt have hyped low end freqencies at all. I would say that these speakers would mix well with a pair of bassier speakers, they arent shrill, no crazy mid spike, but they do have a lot of high end speaker characteristics. On a budget i dont think there are any speakers that match these.

On a budget you cant beat them, but if money was no object, i'd pick up a set of Vintage 30's and swap them for the Rocket 50's in my cab.

very universal as stated on their website

For my setup sounds great just what I need.I have Marshall 100 HDFX going into just one so far and sounds great (especially if you need to play at low levels with same quality of other speakers)I tried with my
other amp from guitar research that has tube in preamp section and it
sounds great too. I have not yet tried at max, I cannot do this at this time, but I,m impressed with the speaker that I almost sold.

so far so good

have not had need for them

Its a fantastic speeakers for a buck

just a 12" speaker with a small magnet. lightweight and inexpensive

i've had them for a couple of years in a 2x12 cab which i mate with 2 12" carvin brit series, also very good speakers. i use my mig 100 h head to run them. i'll get the clean response out of the way first. i really don't use clean. i set my amp so it's just to the point of breakup so when i kick in one of my od's, not distortion,the amp gets pushed into a real nice punchy gain. iuse hb equipped guitars with the p/u's being in the 12 ohm range. not too high output you lose some tone that way but i do like to kick the preamp abit. i use a dano wasabi with boost and no gain on the distortion channel just lotsa volume, a snarling dogs blues bawl wah again with no gain just volume boost and an electro harmonix lpb-1. the rocket 50's when kicked have for me a killer high end sizzle, no harshness, especially for leads. they work great with the carvins which have really nice tight bass response. the 50's are in a semi open cab and the carvins are in a sealed cab. they record awesome too. this setup lets me just krank with no mud response, i repeat no muddiness. great note definiton with solo's and when i play chords the carvins just thunder with a real nice top end from the rockets. the rockets are definetly high end and midrangey so they need a bass friendly speaker to complement them but they would be fine for a 2 guitar band with the other guitar player covering the lower frequencies. i play hard rock and they are perfect for me.

2 years gigging recording and practising and still goin' strong.

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i've been playing forever and had many amps and guitars while doing the tone search thing and i've had these longer than some girlfriends. ok than a lot of girlfriends. great speakers and cheap cheap cheap. i'd buy more for sure.

Its a speaker damn you!. i got these speakers with my laney cab. they are 50 watt at 8 ohms. nice and cheap and are quite good for budding guitarist of general sounds

I've been playing guitar for about 3 year but i played bass for 3 before then and i have been into sound technology live/studio for about 6 years aswell. i can safely say that these ARE nice speakers. but it is a matter of what you pay for. they have a nice but unclarified bottom end with distortion (i play quite high gained with a esp ltd f-2005 anniversay with emg 81's) the mids are a little bit hidden so when jamming with a band you tend to notice that you dont know what you are playing. the highs can be quite offensive in a sense that they give you head ache and the general noise is acceptable. output is rather strange. they tend to get to a certain volume and max out dithering the tone to a low mid NURRRRR sound. i have played these as 4x12 with both a laney tfx head and a marshall mode four with a few high end guitars. the clean is really strange, it is a sweet sound but the bottom end is really undefined and boomy and have the same problem with presence over the rest of the band. dont get me wrong apart from the previous mentioned problems they do have a heavy tone but not a high output. i do recomend these to starters, they have their own charm to them which sticks out at low distortion volumes.

rock hard. celestion

never need any. never looked

good. not great. not bad. avoid recording. nice and cheap for newbies. need i say more

The Celestion Rocket 50 speaker is Celestion's entry level, Chinese-made 12" speaker that handles 50WRMS. The speaker has a slight bit of doping around the outer part of the cone. It looks well-built and sturdy.

I bought the speaker to go into a 60's era Ampeg Jet/J12D. This amp has a very narrow space for a speaker and can only accommodate speakers with fairly small magnets like a Jensen C12R. The Rocket 50 fits perfectly and sounds wonderful in the amp. I was surprised for such a cheap speaker! It lets me save the 60's era Jensen speaker for posterity and sounds every bit as good as tyhe Jensen.

$40 well spent, considering few speakers will fit my 60's Jet; no Webers, none of the larger Jensen speakers.