Tayden Guitar Speakers
Tayden speakers are probably the only guitar speaker manufacturer that assemble all their speakers in the UK, and they use as many UK made parts as possible.
The standard Tayden range uses UK-made Kurt Müller cones and spiders. Kurt Müller supplied speaker parts for most of the vintage guitar speakers that shaped the sound of rock and roll. The Tayden motor units are fabricated in the UK and are CNC milled to very high tolerance and chromplated to prevent rusting. Tayden wind their one voice coils allowing them to supply a wide range of impedances for all their speakers.
The Tayden speakers are finished in British Racing Green and use UK-stamped cork gaskets for a classic vintage look.
Below we’ve recorded some sound samples using the Tayden True Brit 25, True Brit Hi, and Alnico Smooth. We will be adding sound sample of the Retro 55, the Brit 60 and Alnico Ace when we have time to do the recording!
Tayden True Brit 25
This speaker is designed to capture the sound of the classic G12M. It has more midrange emphasis and is less efficient than other Tayden speakers. Work well for higher gain sounds.
Tayden True Brit 25 Strat with effects
Tayden True Brit 25 1958 Gibson Junior
Tayden True Brit Hi
Using a larger magnet then the True Brit 25, this speaker is designed for a more G12H-style sound. More bandwidth and greater efficiency than the Brit 25. This speaker works very well for clean and overdriven sounds.
Tayden True Brit Hi Tele with effects
Tayden True Brit Hi LesPaul with effects
Tayden True Brit Hi Gibson LP Junior
Tayden Alnico Smooth
This is a design unique to Tayden, and produces a very smooth sound with less top end than many speakers. Sound really good with Fender amps, especially in a Tweed Deluxe to recreate the early ZZ Top guitar sound.
Tayden Alnico Smooth ‘58 LP Junior
Tayden Ace 25
Like the Smooth, the Ace25 uses an alnico magnet. The Ace25 was designed to capture the classic tone of the Vox JMI era Celestion Blue. It was developed by direct comparison with some examples of JMI era Vox blues. This speaker has more upper mids and less bass than the Smooth. Available in 25W and 45W rating.
Retro 55
Unlike the other Tayden speakers on this page, the Retro55 uses a 2″ voice coil, rather than the classic 1 3/4″ VC, which combined with the large ceramic magnet gives the Retro55 extra power handling, hence its conservative 55W rating.
Tayden Retro 55 -’60 LP Junior
Tayden Retro 55 – ‘68 Gretsch 6120
How we recorded the sound samples:
We used a Marshall JMP 20 W PA head, close-miced off axis with an SM57 in a 2×12 closed-backed cab with one speaker driven into an ART TubeFire8 pre-amp/ interface and recorded with Reaper. We used Tele (BKP loaded Japanese JD Telecaster)/ Strat (stock 1965)/ Les Paul (stock 1982 Standard), LP Junior (stock 1958).
We recorded clean, crunch and flat out sound samples with Strat/Tele/ Les Paul Standard. These were edited together and the levels adjusted to equal volume. Other than this no processing was done to these samples.
For a laugh we also applied some processing to a few of the sound samples to give an idea of what sort of sounds can be achieved using Reaper plug ins. The first half of each mp3 is the unprocessed recording, and the second half is the same clip with processing.
The Strat, Tele and Les Paul samples were performed by Dave Page of Headspace.