We’ve added a new and rather special Backline Heroes collection to our range of Impulse Responses for bassists – a series of stunning bass guitar cabinets from Massachusetts, USA, amp and cab legends Bergantino Audio Systems. We joined up with Bergantino to capture the sounds of their NXT (Neo X-Treme) range of bass guitar cabinets […]
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Analogue vs Digital Recording – Using The Skills From Yesterday and The Gear From Today
George “G1” Lever is an award-nominated Heavy Metal specialist music producer working out of Somerset in the South-West of England. During a recent conversation about his approach to recording music in the 21st century he spoke of the importance of understanding the basics of old-school analogue audio-engineering to make the most of the modern computer-based […]
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Speaker Sims: The Next Generation
In our latest blog, Andi Picker discusses the next generation of speaker simulation, and what our brand-new SpeakerMix Pro plugin and range of Dynamic Speaker Responses (DSRs) bring to the mix. I’m a long-term fan of speaker IRs – when I reviewed the original release of Celestion Impulse Responses way-back in issue 50 of Guitar […]
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Celestion – The Jason Sadites Interview
We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Jason Sadites – an independent guitarist and YouTuber, who put out his first solo album in 2005 and has worked with some well-known musicians including Kenny Aronoff, Marco Minnemann and Tony Levin. He has also been one of the first to create video reviews of our new […]
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Celestion Speaker Response Survey
What do YOU use Celestion Speaker Responses for? The world of music-making has changed dramatically over the last few years and we have seen an astonishing increase in the world of digital guitar tone products available to musicians around the world. With now over 85 Celestion Impulse Response and Dynamic Speaker Response packs and our […]
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Introducing Celestion’s new SpeakerMix Pro Plugin and Dynamic Speaker Responses – the Next Generation of Digital Tone
The new Celestion SpeakerMix Pro plugin (VST, AAX, AU) is designed to be a studio-grade application, enabling you to produce stunningly realistic guitar tones in your DAW. Far more than just an IR loader and mixer, SpeakerMix Pro delivers pristine sound, while offering a whole host of features. All with an intuitive and instantly familiar […]
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The Newest Addition to Our Backline Heroes Range is… VOX Amps!
Our Backline Heroes range has grown again! We’re excited to reveal the newest name in our now-legendary line-up is iconic British cabinet and amp company, VOX Amps! We teamed up with VOX Amps to record a completely new collection of cabinet impulse responses based on recordings of three classic VOX cabinets loaded up with some […]
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A Flexible Speaker Solution for the Modern Musician – With Built in Celestion Impulse Responses
For many electric guitarists there is really nothing that will ever be as good as a guitar plugged into an amp and cab, moving air in a room. That’s fine when we have time and space to set-up and we’re allowed to make some (a lot of) noise, but the reality for many working musicians […]
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What are the Best Speaker Responses for Metal?
In this blog, we aim to answer one of the questions we get asked a lot: “what are the best speaker responses for metal?” At first sight, it might seem as though the answer is the same as for “what are the best guitar speakers for metal?” So, you just have to find the best […]
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Celestion Complete Guitar Speaker IR Collection
If you didn’t get a chance to take advantage of our stupendous sale offer, due technical glitches (#servercrash) we are now offering it again! Making music is all about making choices; notes, phrasing and sounds together create the parts that build the songs, and although we all know that much of a guitarist’s tone is […]
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