Celestion spoke with guitarist and musician Pete Thorn, who has performed worldwide alongside legendary artists such as Don Henley, Chris Cornell and Melissa Etheridge. After relocating to Los Angeles to attend the Musicians Institute in his late teens he played with a succession of bands, building a resume that ultimately led to tours with globally […]
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Mike Spink on his Role in Creating Celestion IR
What was the process? I worked together with the Celestion guys on the studio engineering side of the IR production and completed mixing the presets that Celestion are going to offer with the main IRs we’ve recorded. I recorded Celestion’s Andy Harper in his band many years ago—14 or 15. He tracked me down, and […]
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Speaker Or Impulse Response: Can You Hear The Difference?
What you really want to know is… How accurate are our impulse responses? How faithfully do they reproduce the tone of our Celestion speakers? Can you actually hear any difference between the two? To demonstrate the answer to this question, we’ve put together this video which splices together clips of a guitar and valve amp […]
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Cenzo Townshend talks about the Celestion IR Library
If by some chance you haven’t heard of Cenzo Townshend, you will most certainly have heard his work. He’s been a major force on the music scene for the past decade or more, producing and mixing for outstanding performers such as The Maccabees, Kaiser Chiefs, Jake Bugg, U2, Snow Patrol, and even New Order, amongst […]
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Why We Did This – An Interview with the Celestion IR Team
The team behind the creation of the Celestion impulse downloads talk about their motivation, the process they went through to achieve this major innovation, and what it’s going to mean for musicians in the studio and playing live. Where did the motivation come from to capture Celestion speakers in a digital format? As a company […]
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