Mark IV wide body w/celestion - problem

[LavaMan]

I bought my current Mark IV about two years ago brand new and just assumed that it had the EVM12L like the one I bought in 1992 had. Wrong. When I took it out of the box and started playing with the EQ the celestion would get real "woofy" when I had the lowest EQ slider pushed up - I played around with it and found I had to really back off on the EQ to get somewhat of a decent sound. Well long story short, I found an EVM12L on EBay, as they do not make them anymore. The fit was kind of tight and I had to remove the spacers on the spring reverb but the amp sounds great now!

Anyone else have this problem?

 

[dylan7620]

well good thing ur amp sounds great. so what was the old speaker? i know alot of ebay sellers dont always know what theyre talking about when they sell an item.

 

[LavaMan]

The old speaker was the stock Celestion that came with the amp. The Electro Voice EVM12L i bought only because there was a good picture and it was from an actual store.

 

[nocluejimbo]

The way I see it, the Mark series was designed to run into a flatter-response speaker. Running it with a fairly eq'ed speaker such as the Black Shadow or a V30 limits the possibilites of tone that you can create between the parametric and graphic eq's.