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Tomy
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2025
First off, this is a honest review, coming from a common person. I have no affiliation with any companies what so ever. I have for sometime been reading reviews, and articles about how to improve my newly purchased Fender Blues Deluxe (purchased March 2024). Not that I thought the amp sounded that bad stock. I will say that I have noticed that it has a transparent cloudy, muffled tone. Let alone would my ears notice a $150.00 speaker upgrade. Amazon had the Eminence "Swamp Thang" on sale, and thought its got to be a improvement regardless. The speaker was delivered today 2/12/25, and all I can say is WOW !! This speaker is incredible. I was worried that my ears couldn't really tell a difference. The difference is night vs day. It even increased the touch sensitivity to a level, I didn't want to put my guitar down to clean up the mess I made. Fair warning, keep fingers out of the electronics, very high voltage. Remove the tubes, unhook speaker cable, reverb tank. Then remove the entire chasis. Installation was straight forward after that. Tighten speaker screws diagonally to avoid warping speaker frame. Kudo's to Eminence Speakers for a FANTASTIC speaker, thats 100% American made. You will notice a BIG difference from the stock speaker. Honestly I thought all the propaganda I was reading was a sale tactic. If you have a Fender Blues Deluxe and looking to upgrade, this speaker is a BIG step in the RIGHT direction. Spend the money, buy the " Swamp Thang !!! "
tMK29
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2025
I have a Carvin SX200 2x12 combo that is 150 watts and i wanted speaker that will handle the power rating. It was the same size as the stock V12 speaker. I'm thinking this original was also an eminence they look the same.The Swamp Thang cleaned up my lower end nicely without getting muddy. It was easy to setup. Weight is the same as stock. It sounds loud and clear. I play clean classical music through Seymour Duncan Sentient neck pickup and this speaker sounds great paired with the Texas Heat on my open back combo.Definitely improved my sound and tone. It still hasn't broken in but I'm sure it will sound better with time. With these speakers i didn't even need my EQ in the effects loop. All the strings sound loud and clear.
David Wilson
Reviewed in Canada on August 24, 2021
I have a hand wired Hoffman BLACKFACE DR and it had a 20 watt Celestion Greenback when I got it. I tried a 25 watt Weber 12F150 that sounded good at low volumes but anything past 4, the bass would get mushy. The Swamp Thang sounds fantastic right out of the box. At low volume, I can turn up the bass setting to 8-9 and get that rich deep bass that sounds so good with a Strat. At higher volumes I just turn the bass down to 4 or so and it remains tight. I was going to get a Celestion Redback, but at half the price, this speaker is fantastic. The highs come through clear but not ice pick at all. A telecaster simply sings through this amp speaker combo. +10 on the satisfied scale.
ssssssss
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2021
I have been A/Bing the 12" Swamp Thang, Cannabis Rex and Celestion G12H 70th Anniversary in 3 Pre CBS Fender amps (black face Princeton Reverb, black face Vibrolux Reverb and brown Vibrolux) with 3 Fender guitars ('66 Telecaster, Nocaster relic, Esquire relic).I have not made up my mind as to which speaker to put in which amp but will say this- the Swamp Thang is an impressive speaker. It is efficient (loud), punchy (dynamic) and clean. It does not crap out on the bottom end and the highs come through with no clouding. I think it gives me everything the amp is putting out. The Princeton sounds bigger than it is and there's no fuzziness on the bottom end. The BF Vibrolux thinks it's a Twin Reverb (but in a good way!) and the brown face Vibrolux sounds like I hadn't heard it with the other speakers it's had in it over the decades (Altec, SRO, original Jensen).Now, do I love it? Yes and no. Being a Tele/Esquire player I love the clear bottom end the Tele puts out but it's ultimately important to not cause pain in the high end. The Swamp Thang is very open on the top. I love the tight bottom end. I kind of wish I could have the top end of the Cannabis Rex with the bottom end of the Swamp Thang. The Cannabis Rex has a lovely warm/softness. It softens the two black face amps nicely. It gets a little fuzzy on the bottom end with the Princeton Reverb. I might put the Swamp Thang in that one. I have to be careful with the tone knob on the Tele/Esquire. Chords ring out nicely. Leads on the unwound strings can be kind of bright. It makes the PR louder than any speaker I've had in it.If I was playing more country gigs (anybody playing dance gigs these days?) this would be a perfect match for the black face Vibrolux. It's loud and clean. For blues, r&b, r&r the Cannabis Rex is better.With the Swamp Thang in the brown face Vibrolux the tone controls become powerful. Once again, I have to be very careful with the treble knob. The Cannabis Rex in the brown Vibrolux is perhaps the warmest, softest amp I've ever heard; really sweet with a lot of character and personality.The Celestion is not bad by any means. Just much prefer the two Eminence speakers.
Wbg
Reviewed in Canada on January 1, 2020
I needed a bit more power on gigs from 100 watt speaker I’ve been using. I put the speaker in rocktron cabinet with the swamp thang replacing the speaker that came with it. I found for the jazz and Latin stuff I was doing mostly clean I got great tone, more depth than 10 inch I’d been using and more than enough volume for club dates. Warren
Bobbo
Reviewed in Canada on September 10, 2019
Put this speaker together with an 8 ohm The Governor in a ported Seismic 2 x 12. Absolutely fantastic!! Clean tones are sparkling. Crunch channel does exactly that. Super crisp and meaty. Very easy to get lead tones to sing at every tone dial position. Crushing bass and mid bass for anyone who tunes down. All channels have great depth due to the two different speaker frequency curves. Highly recommend the combo for anyone who plays blues to ground shaking metal. Now I want to combo Private Jack and The Wizard.
MMTele
Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2016
Still breaking it in with my Fender Blues Jr. III. It replaced a factory-issue Jensen P12R. The Jensen sounded flat, very boxy and unrewarding. Very straightforward installation. Sound is generally louder, fuller and better bottom end. Haven't had a good opportunity to open it up, but am pretty satisfied with the sound. With break-in, more time planning and adjusting settings 4 stars will become 5.
Andy
Reviewed in Canada on January 29, 2015
I absolutely love to tone of this speaker! I generally do clean stuff: jazz, blues and country mostly. This speaker provides a very full and rich tone for jazz. It also has a nice deep tone country leads, especially picked on the bass strings. With a tele or strat, this speaker does a good job taming any harsh highs so you can really dig in. It also brightens up reasonably well if your tone controls have the range; that's the nice thing about building your own amp.I especially like the way this speaker sounds with the '63 fender reverb tank and fuzz face distortion! The extra lows really fill out the sound with these effects in a way I didn't expect.If you play clean Jazz, country (Waylon, Cash, etc..) or just generally like a nice full clean sound, this if for you. If you're into heavier stuff, I'm sure you won't be disappointed with the mids and bass...this thing will melt your face.Currently, I'm using a home-built 100W transistor amp. Really, for cleans, the speaker is largely what defines your sound, and this speaker has a lot of character. Without question it was the right choice for my style and my amp!
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