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Published on 03/16/11 at 10:35When gearing up to have a more modern tone to add to my recordings one name that kept popping up in my search and that was the “Mills Acoustics Afterburner”. Let me just say dealing with this company was top notch. The communication with Mills was great and the cab that was delivered was, in my humble opinion, one of the best I’ve had. You can tell it was made by people who truly care about what they do. Words can only convey so much so I will try to describe what I heard when I ran this cabinet through it’s paces but it's so hard to put into words anything that will do this cabinet justice because this cab quite frankly sounds massive in person.
When compared to a more classic style cab the Mills has its own sound going on but in a very good way. The more classic style cabs are well, more classic in tone and focus which is good for certain tones. In this day and age when you think “modern” sounding guitar cabinets you think more bass and bottom end. The Mills doesn’t focus on emphasizing or adding more bottom end, it quite frankly a fills the whole room with tone. I ran a Plexi style head, a JCM 800 style head ,and a VHT Deliverance head for the more modern flavor when I was auditioning the cab. With the classic style heads like the Plexi and JCM 800 you just get more “dimension” and more “presence” in the room as compared to the regular 4×12 I had. The VHT was the same experience, so to me this cab works well for modern sounding heads as well as classic sounding heads.
Construction wise it was built like a tank. The quality of the materials used were very nice and the tolex was flawless. The screws on the inside for the bracing were screwed in straight and clean.
Overall I like both classic cabinets and the Mills for different reasons but if I were to have to pick just one to live with it would be the Mills. It just does it for me.
When compared to a more classic style cab the Mills has its own sound going on but in a very good way. The more classic style cabs are well, more classic in tone and focus which is good for certain tones. In this day and age when you think “modern” sounding guitar cabinets you think more bass and bottom end. The Mills doesn’t focus on emphasizing or adding more bottom end, it quite frankly a fills the whole room with tone. I ran a Plexi style head, a JCM 800 style head ,and a VHT Deliverance head for the more modern flavor when I was auditioning the cab. With the classic style heads like the Plexi and JCM 800 you just get more “dimension” and more “presence” in the room as compared to the regular 4×12 I had. The VHT was the same experience, so to me this cab works well for modern sounding heads as well as classic sounding heads.
Construction wise it was built like a tank. The quality of the materials used were very nice and the tolex was flawless. The screws on the inside for the bracing were screwed in straight and clean.
Overall I like both classic cabinets and the Mills for different reasons but if I were to have to pick just one to live with it would be the Mills. It just does it for me.