Review: Mills Acoustics Guitar Cabinets

When gearing up to do clips for this blog I was looking for a more modern approach to add to the classic sounding cabs I already had to do demos with. One name that kept popping up in my search was “Mills Acoustics Afterburner”. Let me just say dealing with this company was top notch.The communication with Mills was great and the product that was delivered was, in my humble opinion, one of the best I’ve had and what was delivered was a great product 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 whenI ran this cabinet through it’s paces but I also hope the demo’s to come on this site will do this cabinet justice because this cab quite frankly sounds massive in person and I’ll be using it along with a traditional cab to demo heads here.

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. I like both the classic cabinet 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.

Please check back for my clips on this site to hear the cab in action.