ripped speaker kinks sound

[fraser2262]

i want to try and re-create it. however i dont wanna rip one of my good speaker, if i buy a cheap ss amp and rip the cone will it work with similiarish effect?

[Simon Wicks]

Dont rip it, cut it with a razor blade. It was funny, a while back the BBC ran a series of UK celebrities learning to play an instrument and one learned the guitar. He ended up teaching himself but as he knew plenty of the old school guys like Knopfler and Ray Davies from the Kinks, he did well. Ray Davies showed him what he used to do and that was slice the speaker evenly putting small cuts in it around the cone to get a fuzzy, distorted sound. The old blues guys like Elmore James used to do that back in the day to get a harder, more "evil" sounding.

[mr_william]

yeah.. i think i once read somewhere on how he did it.. on the guitar geek site it says with a razor blade.. but im sure theres more info out there if you're to serch long enough.