Celestion BN12-300S

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Speakers can only be purchased as an upgrade to a cabinet and are not sold separately.

The best of Celestion's guitar speakers are available to customise the sound of your Barefaced AVD cab. Add your cab to the cart on the relevant product page and then add the speaker here. The price you see here is the cost we charge to replace the stock Vintage 30 with this custom driver.

If you're ordering a 2x12" or two 1x12" cabs, don't forget to add two drivers! If you only want one custom driver and one stock driver in a 2x12" or two different custom drivers, please email us to explain where to put each driver (top or bottom, left or right). We'll fit the impedance stated in your cab order. Email us if you're confused!

Celestion BN12-300S

Yes, this was originally designed by Celestion as a bass guitar speaker - for bass guitar it's a good speaker although it can't compete with our Barefaced 12XN or 10CR drivers, so we don't fit it to our bass cabs. However it's a great speaker for guitar sounds that need fairly minimal colouration with smooth highs. It handles huge power and massive lows for a guitar speaker (because it was originally a bass speaker) so it suits everything from jazz guitar (clean mellow highs) to downtuned metal (thick deep chug). Hilariously light due to the neo magnet.

Most of our custom Celestion speaker choices come in 8 or 16 ohm impedance (a few old alnico ones are 8 and 15 but the 15 is just a historical silliness) however the BN12-300S is 4 or 8 ohm only. As you choose impedance on the cab page, that's fine for 2x12" cabs because we can do 4 ohm (two 8 in parallel), 8 ohm (two 4 in series) or 16 ohm (two 8 in series) but we can't do 16 ohm 1x12" cabs - and you also have the option of a 4 ohm 1x12" cab. Please email us if you want a 4 ohm 1x12" so we can order in the 4 ohm BN12-300S.

Power rating	300W rms
Impedance	4 or 8 Ohms
Sensitivity	99dB
Frequency Range	50Hz - 4000kHz
Magnet Type	Neo
Speaker Weight	2kg / 4.4lbs
Weight difference vs stock V30	-2.7kg / -6lbs

Customer feedback

03/12/25 - Uprising 212V (BN12-300S + Cream) - France

Hello there! I hope you are well.

I haven't gotten back to you sooner since receiving my cab because I wanted to take the time to test it, especially in a concert setting. So it took me some time.

First of all, thank you very much. It's a really great cab (a Vertical 212 with two Alnico Cream and BN12 300s speakers and single AVD on top), beautifully made, very light, and easy to transport, which is very important when you're moving it around!

I'm also really happy with the mix of speakers; they both sound great.

However, I must admit that I am a bit disappointed with the AVD system. But maybe I'm using it wrong or my expectations were not right?

I thought it would be very non-directional, basically combining the advantages of a closed cab (bass presence) with those of an open cab (diffusion). I was also afraid that the single AVD would reduce the effect a little, but you told me it wouldn't.
But in concert/rehearsal situations, my cab is super directional. When I'm right in front of the cab and the Cream, I can hear myself very well, with lots of presence and high frequencies. But as soon as I move out of the direct field, I can hear myself much less, and the high frequencies are gone. Even if I'm 3 feet away from my cab, but slightly off to the side, and my second guitarist's Hot Rod is 13 feet away from me, but more directed towards me, I can hear him more than I can hear myself.

So there you have it, it seems like a strange sensation to me. Do you have an explanation or perhaps some advice? Does what I'm describing seem normal to you?

Thank you very much!

Best regards

Gregoire

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Hi Gregoire,

Sorry to hear you feel the AVD isn't working as well as it should - my best guess is that your expectations of the AVD are too much, because at the end of the day the forwards behaviour of the cone is barely changed vs a normal cab, but the AVD makes a big difference to the balance in the room. I suggest you move your cab further away from you and point your second guitarist's cab more away from you. If you're curious you can stuff the AVD with some cushions or pillows to block the mid/high output to hear if it makes a difference - I'd be very surprised if you don't notice a change then. Let me know what you find! Glad you like the cab otherwise.

Best regards,

Alex

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