The Tone Tubby
Mountainview Publishing, LLC INSIDE the John Harrison of A Brown Soun... The Player’s Guide to Ultimate Tone TM The Wizard of $10.00 US, January 2002/VOL.3 NO.3 Report Hemp The Tone Tubby 9 e’ve said it many times before in these pages... Speakers are the final transducers in the chain that defines your tone. Well, gang, get comfortable and settle in for our An American W exclusive report on what may be the most significant development in guitar speaker design to have occurred in decades, and it’s based on an organic ‘technology’ that is over 2,000 Treasure years old. Master Arch Top Builder Bob Benedetto 14 Output Transformers 101 with Victoria’s Mark Baier 15 Mercury Magnetics’ Sergio John Harrison at A Brown Soun (no typo, it’s Soun) has been reconing speakers in San Rafael, Hamernik... Good California for nearly 30 years, and his client list is a Who’s Who of respected bands and musi- cians, including Carlos Santana, Pearl Jam, Metallica, REM, Van Halen, Robert Cray, Ronnie Iron is Hard to Montrose, Steve Kimock, Mark Karan, Boz Scaggs, Steve Morse, Neil Young, and many, many more. Harrison has been refining his reconing techniques and selection of superior speaker com- Find ponents for decades, and he has earned a reputation for having set a high water mark in reconing www.tonequest.com cover story vintage speakers. The ugly truth about reconing is this: the TQR: You’ve been The use of hemp fiber for pulp and majority of reconed speakers were (and still are) rebuilt with doing this speaker thing paper dates back more than 2,000 inexpensive, unspectacular generic parts and kits.
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