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Just curious, but what different speakers are in a speaker cab (like the woofer, tweeter, etc). What do the different parts look like, and what range are each of them?
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normally, a speaker cabinet is simply an array of speakers. there are instances where 'cabinets' for stereos have different sets of speakers (such as tweeters), but in the case of a guitar/bass amp head/cab stack, the cabs are simply 1-4 'normal' speakers, and then wired in series, parallel, or both to aquire the needed impendance for the amp.
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Does the same go for monitors and the speakers used for the main mix (house speakers? I don't know if they have a name for them).
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Originally Posted by HeavenOnAStick Does the same go for monitors and the speakers used for the main mix (house speakers? I don't know if they have a name for them). short answer: no
less short answer: generally PA and monitor speakers have tweeters/horns for the reproduction of vocal ranges.
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Ok, so tweeters and horns are the same thing? I thought so but wasn't sure. (Just to prove how inept I am :-P) What are the frequency ranges of the woofers and the tweeters?
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from what i've read, a tweeter is the actual speaker, and the horn is the large directing device in front of it.
woofer frequency ranges are from about 20/40Hz to "a few hundred" Hz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woofer)
tweeters reproduce from 5kHz to 22kHz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweeter)
this is going to vary from speaker to speaker though.
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Ok thanks, that's what I needed to know.
Another very newbish question, but are all the cone-shaped speakers woofers then?