Product: Eminence Legend FS12
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
09/09/2008
at
05:50am
by
Leslie
Features
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No Opinion
12" guitar amp speaker found in Fender solid state amps made in the 1990s. This speaker is no longer in production. I have three amps that had these speakers (Fender Princeton 112, Fender Automatic SE, and Fender Ultimate Chorus). A friend of mine had a Marshall G50RCD 112 combo with the same speaker.
Power is rated at 75 watts, impedance 8 ohms.
Sound Quality
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1
The speaker sounds good for clean settings and for lighter distorted settings. It is definitely an American voiced speaker with lots of upper midrange. It has a good sound for country, jazz, or blues, but not hard rock.
I had the speaker in my Fender Princeton 112 for a couple of years, and I got to hate the thuddy upper mids the FS12 produced when I played classic hard rock rhythms on my guitar. The 'crunch' just isn't there. So I replaced the FS12 with a Celestion Vintage 30 and I haven't looked back since. The Vintage 30 has more low mids and cuts through way better than the FS12.
Reliability
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No Opinion
Customer Support
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No Opinion
Overall Rating
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3
All of the FS12s in my amps have been replaced with Celestion speakers. I could have opted for Eminence British-voiced (Redcoat) speakers, but the local music shops didn't stock any at the time. To sum things up, I'm just not into American-voiced speakers. For hard rock, it's the British sound or nothing.
