Speakers for Pedal Steel

[GrungeMan]

Any one use two Cali 12"s in their pedal steel amp?
Type of dust cap?
Thanks

Grungy 

[JonL]

Been a long time since I checked in at the Weber board (too little time....).  For a while I was running a 2 X 12 cab off a Dual Showman Reverb (as an alternative to a 1 X 15"---it has always been a love/love relationship with the 15 vs. 12 and which one I carried out the door depended on.....not sure what.  Mood.  Whatever.  The 15 is a Cali, paper cap.  As are the 12's.  Ceramic w/ paper cap.
I'm going more portable these days (hauling the rig to NYC gigs) and the 1 X 15" in an ultra lightweight cab with a PodXT and a Crate Powerblock, believe it or not, is my rig.
Money is tight but if I were looking to buy & try stuff I'd look to pull one of the 12" Calis and mix something else in there.  Not sure what.  Chicago?  Mich?  Ken Fox is really jazzed about the Sica neos.

[Bigsbyguy]

I have a pair of really early JBL D-131 12's. When I got them they'd been reconed with fiber dust caps. They sound great, like Jensens on steriods. I grew to really like the fiber caps. Had a 10 reconed that way and it sounds great also. I've decided that any JBLs I have reconed from now on will have them.
IMO they mellow the sound out. But then anything that has to do with sound and tone is a very personal choice. If you're playing a modern steel I bet you could live without the added highs.

[GRis]

I don't think you can beat the old EV SRO alnico for steel. Have seen/heard a few of them in the Nashville cats' Sho-Bud amps... ;)

Weber Cali alnico is probably closest, maybe one Mich alnico as well - not cheap...

[GrungeMan]

My oldtimers is acting up, forgot I posted this!

Definitely want a mellow Ben Keith tone, RIP Ben 

Really just wondering if more than one speaker is too much for pedal steel?

I'm kinda leaning toward a 10" and a 12" Cali now instead of the traditional single 15" speaker.

Thanks for the responses.