We’re very excited to announce a completely new way of building up a Celestion impulse response library – our IR Pick & Mix option. Now you can buy any combination of 3 or 5 cabinets from our full range of IRs, for a significant discount. Your choices can include IRs from the same speaker or […]

Since we launched our speaker impulse responses (IRs) a lot of guitar players are using Celestion IRs in a myriad of ways, with homemade demo videos on YouTube and plenty of forum discussions. Clearly, users are experimenting with all kinds of different setup options made possible with our impulse response files – but if you’re […]

Our impulse responses have captured the unique tones of Celestion’s classic guitar speaker range in digital form, and the focus is quite rightly on the tones of the different speakers. A couple of weeks ago we focused on the difference the type and position of the microphone can make to the final tone – but […]

Nearly a year on from the launch of Celestion’s Impulse Response range and the verdict seems to be pretty much unanimous: Celestion IRs deliver accurate, authentic Celestion tone which is virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. Successfully capturing the tones of our speakers in high quality, digital form is a technical achievement we’re proud of […]

One of the pleasures of an extensive impulse response library is the ability to instantly switch between different tones to suit different styles of music, so it’s understandable to wonder exactly what are the best impulse responses for metal, rock, blues and so on. In this blog we’re going to guide you through some of […]

Metal masters Joel Stroetzel of Killswitch Engage and Jeff Waters of Annihilator; Blues icon Joe Bonamassa; Jazz fusion legend Allen Hinds; Country supremo Trey Hill (Kellie Pickler). All of them are awesome guitarists in their chosen genres, of course, but other than that, what could this incredibly diverse group possibly have in common? While their […]

The Celestion G12-35XC guitar speaker, launched as a Limited Edition model in 2014 to mark our 90th anniversary, is starting to become increasingly difficult to come by. But now we’ve made its vintage tones easily available to everyone in digital form, with the release of our newest Impulse Response download, expanding our range to a […]

If you’ve already downloaded and used one of our speaker IRs you’ll notice that each speaker cabinet option features no fewer than 4 different microphones: the Royer R-121, the Sennheiser MD421, the Shure SM57 and the Neumann TLM 107. You may be wondering why we used so many different microphones to create our impulse response […]

If you’ve downloaded any of our impulse response files you may also have read our End User Licence Agreement, which includes the following: “Our impulse response downloads are tagged with unique Identifiers so we can track them back to the original purchase and purchaser.” This has triggered some speculation about what this Identifier actually consists […]

Hot on the heels of the G12H-150 Redback impulse response comes the release of the new Celestion Neo Creamback speaker IR. Neo Creamback Tone What type of tone can you expect from the Neo Creamback impulse response?   Like all our speaker IRs, the digital version of our speakers is almost identical to the real […]