Celestion Rocket 50 Guitar Speaker, 8 Ohm

Put the speaker in a box I bought and got a cover now I have a nice sounding cab for my evh head. Great sounding speaker for an affordable price I'm very pleased and will buy another if I want to make a 2x12

There is a video review of this speaker in the cab I had it installed in on YouTube, Channel "Gwugluud 77" entitled "Gwugluud's Bad Gear Demos #2".Installed this along with an Eminence Man O War to replace the stock corpse-like, blahhh speakers in my Bugera 2x12 guitar cab. Yes, I know, an expensive speaker and a cheap speaker side-by-side, I'm retarded.NOW the cab has the very rude "British" characteristic that I prefer. My instincts were correct about the choice of speakers; I did much online research.The cab blasts a great Marshallesque brand of sound now, and it's interesting to get directly in front of each speaker back-and-forth to compare them. The Eminence is an ape of the Celestion 75, and it has the same slight...some call it a "mid-scoop", but I'm not sure that's the right way to describe it. When I used to own a 4x12 cab with 75s in it, I never noted any especial lack of mids. It sounded great for stuff most would I guess prefer a Greenback for, such as when I thought I was Clapton circa "Fresh Cream" or the guy in Blue Cheer or something.Now this Rocket 50 accentuates and agrees with the Man O War nicely. It has extra-harsh (in a good way) mids and highs. I own a cab which has Vintage 30s in it, and I'd describe the Rocket 50 as sounding like an extra-trashy (if that's possible) Vintage 30 with an even worse attitude problem. Greatness.Final note: When I used my Epilepiphone Les Paul with p-90s with my Blackheart 15-watt amp brain with a Rat pedal thru this cab, it NAILS the very early Clash "sheet-metal" sound I've noted from seeing footage of them from 1976. Playing (or trying to play) "White Riot" and "What's My Name" thru this setup sounds amazing.I may buy another Bugera 2x12 (they're cheap and look really cool, sort of Twin-Reverb-like in basic appearance), and with that one replace the stock drivers with a Warehouse (sic?) Greenback clone along with a Jensen Mod. Wouldn't THAT make an interesting-sounding rig played both together.

Bought this for a tweed cabinet. I play guitar at home, mostly low volume, for an edge of breakup sound. This speaker responds nicely to boosts in bass, midrange and treble. It is a 'budget' speaker, but gives good results with low-wattage tube amp heads. Cleans are clear. Low to moderate overdrives sound good. I have no idea if this speaker would be good for high-gain playing. For my application, it is a good value.

I use mostly affordable gear and I've loved my amp since it arrived, but over time it seemed like I can only get 95% of the tone I was looking for. So I swapped out my Bugera 22 Infinium's 12" Turbotwhatever that came stock, for this Rocket 50, the lowest cost Celestion I could find, and the difference is amazing. Every note in the chord has it's own chime and it's beautiful. Dirty or clean this thing sounds amazing, I swear my Les Paul sounds like a Strat just by lowering the pickup volume. I was really hoping this would do something, but I had no idea just how much it would do. In retrospect, I was only halfway to a tone, lol.It makes that much of a difference that I believe I would now upgrade the speaker of any Amp, unless it already had a high end speaker. From what I gather, most do not. Anything that makes you want to play more is a great purchase, and this is definitely making me want to play more...

Swapped out the stock Fender Champion 40 for this. Couldn't be more pleased. Clear punchy mids and punctuated highs with smoothe steady bass. Can really growl and bark when you want it to. Really dynamic with some crazy clarity. I like the shimmer and chime. Might put this in. Marshall DSL 40 next,. Seems like a textbook application for that amp at an unbeatable price.

the speaker in the picture is not the speaker you get. The speaker I received said celestion and nady and does not say rocket 50 anywhere or that its made in Ipswitch england the numbers on it are nady numbers!

This speaker exactly fit the mounting holes on the "made for Fender" speaker.A little background here:Fender Frontman 212R amp is solid state. There are two resistors on the PCB that will overheat and unsolder themselves - R144 and R145 to be specific. These are in the power supply and precede the 16V zener diode regulators. If R144 goes open, the amp will dump 40v DC into the speakers and burn out the voice coils. The bad speaker I replaced read less than 1 ohm (should be 8 ohms, nominally). Once this happens the amp sounds extremely distorted on the clean channel and it will draw a lot of current and just cut out.The solution is to remove the two resistors, clean off all the corrosion, and resolder them. Works fine, lasts a long time. And then of course replace the speaker.Bob SavinoRES Electronics LLCBergenfield, NJ

I work on amps, I got these for my new test cabinet, they were the cheapest speakers.I’ve got to say, for the price, very nice sounding speaker. If you’re looking for something reliable with decent tone for the money these do not suck.Jensen mods are the next comparable speakers price wise and I would say these sound a touch more British. Both are fine speakers.