Guitar speaker adaptors

[GearJunkie]

Apparently I've heard these exist, but I can't find them anywhere. Here's my dilema:

I've got a 2x12 cabinet that I wanna retrofit to be a 1x10, 1x12 cabinet. I'm looking for a ring to go around my 10" speaker that'll line up with the screw holes of my 12" cabinet. You'd think these would be abundant, but apparently not.

Anyone? You ever seen one of these? Hook me up.

[IbanezAndTamaDrums]

Frys electronics has em, radioshack might as well.

[Whoopysnorp]

You'd think that for a guitar cabinet you'd want to be careful of what material was used to make the ring, since the resonance of the wood is a big component of the sound of a quality cab.

[GearJunkie]

Originally Posted by Whoopysnorp

You'd think that for a guitar cabinet you'd want to be careful of what material was used to make the ring, since the resonance of the wood is a big component of the sound of a quality cab.

that's what i was thinking too. I don't know if a wood ring or a metal ring would be better.

[gtrdr]

Ampwares sells this "tone ring" which fender used back in the day and was actually supposed to improve resonance and tone. I don't know if it could be used to adapt a 10" speaker to a 12" baffle - you may want to call them to find out and/or get dimensions.

http://www.tubeampparts.com/Merchant...oduct_Count=31

www.ampwares.com

Also, Dr. Z (Mike Zaite), who make ridiculously good sounding amps, mentioned this in the ToneQuest report - u may want to consider. http://www.tonequest.com/articles/dr-z.htm
"There’s also another design we do that’s interesting. Going back to the Eagles tour, I noticed something that was being done by Clair Brothers Sound, which is one of the biggest companies that builds sound systems for the big tours. One day I was looking into their side-fill cabs and I noticed that the speaker was recessed a couple of inches behind the baffle. So I get a flashlight, and I’m looking at these cabs and one of the guys from Clair Brothers says, “Hey Man, whaddya doin? Get away from that shit!” It turned out that this guy was one of their engineers, we started talking, and he explained what they were doing with what was known as a tone ring in the Fender days. Well, they do the same thing with what they call lens technology. I now make a lens that consists of two ¾ inch thick sections of plywood that the speaker is mounted behind, and what that does is enable you to dial in the projection of the cabinet by the depth of the lens. It makes those 2x10’s in the MAZ Jr. sound like 2x12’s because essentially I’m adding an inch and a half to the cone diameter. You know how 2x10 amps sound really nice when you’re a guitar cord length away from them, but get 20 feet away, and they begin to sound a little tiny? The lens technology gives them a much bigger sound. It’s a little like the old horn technology where they calculated different throw lengths for those horns."

[Ol'boy rivers]

A metal ring is going to tear up that speaker, Hears why: An EXTREME amount of vibration is cancled away when someone used a tone ring in cabinets ( It does effect tone, However. ) Metal will litterally shake that speaker apart. Now.. Other materials. I'm not real fluent on it all, so Don't do it unless you know I'm right: Woods of course, more or less a less denser wood, A heavyier wood if you wanted a deeper UMPH. After that.. The goo'ey rubber stuff. ( I call it the Goo'ey rubber stuff because I have no earthly clue what that black Tar-gunk is. )