Ipswich, UK · since 1924

Celestion.

The house voice of British rock. Three speakers carry most of the lineage — the Blue in the Vox AC30, the Greenback in the Marshall stack, and the Vintage 30 in the high-gain era that followed.

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In the pool3 speakers

Magnetsceramic 3

Power range25–60 W

Sensitivity98.0–100.0 dB

The Celestion Blue came first — an alnico twelve that went into the Vox AC30 and stayed there. Its chimed, three-dimensional top runs through everything from the Beatles to The Edge. The G12M Greenback arrived in 1968, a ceramic twelve with a round, woody midrange and a cooperative break-up under drive that became the Marshall sound through the seventies, and by extension most of what British rock sounded like for the decade after.

The Vintage 30 followed in 1986 — a harder-hitting ceramic with a pronounced 2.5 kHz presence peak that cut through high-gain mixes the way the Greenback never had to. It’s the default British high-gain driver today, and many modern 4×12s ship with one or a licensed clone. Celestion’s parallel alnico line — the Gold, Ruby, and Cream — extends the Blue’s voice into higher power ratings.

In this pool · 3 speakers

Celestion G12H Anniversary

Tight & Dark

№ 002

Celestion G12M Greenback