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The Eminence Maverck™ 12" guitar speaker with patent-pending FDM™ technology puts tonal control at your fingertips. Just turn the modulator knob to adjust speaker output and amplifier interaction, helping you find that sweet spot of saturated tube tone but at a significantly lower volume.
7 year parts and labor warranty against defects on all speakers sold under Eminence name.
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The Eminence Maverick 12" 8 ohm speaker serves as a replacement for the original 1964 CTS ceramic that has been living in my 1966 Ampeg Gemini I for over 45 years. I decided to preserve the original and began a tedious search for a replacement. Finally, after months of testing, I settled on this new design from Eminence. The Maverick is an amazingly clear, crisp, detailed speaker. It remains articulate at high volumes and has a tight, focused low end response. The Maverick never becomes woofy but really has a lot of low end capability. Whatever is coming from your amp, the Mave can handle it beautifully. The midrange is slightly scooped in the 1-3KHz range which manifests itself as accentuated lows and highs. However, it is not a dramatic "modern" high-gain style scoop. The speaker still has bite in the midrange and retains a vocal quality most noticeable while wailing single notes in an overdriven format. The highs on this speaker are where it really excels. Never glassy or brittle. There are no piercing spikes. The high end is very smooth and round and works deliciously with hot humbuckers. The combo of the '66 Ampeg Gemini I / Maverick / Seymour Duncan "Jazz" SH-2n produces what is by far my favorite guitar tone ever. It's like a violin/saxophone/woodwind tone. Amazingly smooth and buttery. In a lot of ways, it is the perfect speaker. The beauty of this design is the FDM knob on the back. It effortlessly turns 300* to give you it's full gorgeous bell-like chime, yet if you decrease the efficiency by turning the knob to raise the magnet it becomes a darker image of itself. Incredible. If you have an amp that just needs a tad more tone tweaking towards bright/dark this is a great choice. The Maverick offers -9 decibels of volume attenuation. That is really not that much of a decrease overall. If you are looking at this to dramatically lower your bedroom volume while driving the power amp hard, look elsewhere. Perhaps you need an attenuator like the THD HotPlate. What it can do is trim those treble and mid spikes that your amp can produce as it gets louder. The FDM function is more of a "tone knob" than it is a "volume knob" though there is a decent volume decrease overall. This would be an amazing match in a 212 with a V30, Blue Alnico, or even the Reignmaker imo. Tons of tonal possibilities here. Once it breaks in, it just gets smoother. Great buy! You gotta hear it!
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