Got the Avatar 4x12 with Greenbacks today! This is an 8ohm cab. Upon unpackaging I noticed two things........damn...forgot to order casters! Number two....whoa the Vintage 4x12 is not as wide as my Marshall cabs. It is exactly the width of the VM head. No biggy, lets plug this beotch in.
First the VM....place the VM head on the Avatar cab...plug in my pedal board and Anderson Strat with humbucker/single coil/humbucker config. All pedals off....LDR range first....clean. Ahhh, I smile and know right away it's gonna be good cuz I'm getting a full bassier tone than my aforementioned cabs now in my garage. A crank it a bit, oh yeah...musical not harsh. Now I can't wait, I just hit the HDR and crank the gain. I laugh out loud....papa like!! This thing crunches great, cleans up great and is full and not "brittle". Nice. After playing for 1/2 hour I compare it to the Mesa 1x12 C-90 that I mentioned in previous posts how well it sounded. Very similar as far as full tone/crunch and not brittle like my 16ohm cabs. I gambled by ordering the Avatar sight unseen and it sounds fabulous. Very rocky....breaks up a little earlier than the 1x12 mesa cab...understandably. Actually, on open chords you can hear individual notes slightly clearer with the 1x12. This is playing only for 1/2 hour for what that is worth......Thumbs up!!!!
Okay, time to hook up the AFD to the Avatar. Oh yeah.....bing! Best sound of the day! Crunchy, smoother, no harshness and highs are tamer. I'm not going to say this cab is the best thing since sliced bread, but it blows my other two cabs away as far as getting back the crunch and getting RID of the harshness. I'll need to play with the band and record and stuff like that but I'm pretty happy with this cab. Paid 647.00 out the door delivered. No casters.
Lastly, I really do like the VM through the mesa 1x12 C-90 cab. At low volumes (studio or lower) it sounds great and doesn't have to bore holes in the wall to get that crunch.
Here is a snip it from my iPhone of the first few minutes of playing through the Avatar. I hope this youTube posts right. Never have posted a youTube clip.
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-- Thu May 12, 2011 4:22 pm --
Dang, I don't know how to post an imbedded youtube clip onto this forum. Surf?
Fixed it for you