Amp GAS over...

IvisonGuitars

...well, it's not, of course it's not BUT after last nights gig with this rig, I've woken up with a real odd feeling that I don't want to buy any more amps today. I'll be fine tomorrow...

But until then... this sounded incredible last night. We were headlining an outdoor festival, we soundchecked in the afternoon and the engineer initially mic'd both up with 2 x 57's. I cranked them and half way through, he came up and took the mics away and said "I don't think we'll be needing these!" 

The most inspiring & bone crushingly loud tone i've had in a long while. J40 is running clean-ish pushed with a Cruiser and the J20 is running nice and dirty.....that clean but dirty tone - Pure Keef!

jacksparrow

Nice rig. i would like to try a lazy j one day

Wazmeister

Gorgeous. I do something similar with the Rambler...

Mate, I'd love a photo of your J20 settings if possible at some point...

Those two do LOOK the absolute cobs too !!!

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Wazmeister said:

Gorgeous. I do something similar with the Rambler...

Mate, I'd love a photo of your J20 settings if possible at some point...

Those two do LOOK the absolute cobs too !!!

Cheers @Wazmeister! To be honest, regarding J20 settings, I have no fixed setting they change from gig to gig depending on the the room.

Wazmeister

Cool.

I know they are simple, but I rehearsed the other week, changed things round (Im normally on the 'normal' input) and it just felt magical. The week after ??? Not so !!!

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Wazmeister said:

Cool.

I know they are simple, but I rehearsed the other week, changed things round (Im normally on the 'normal' input) and it just felt magical. The week after ??? Not so !!!

@Wazmeister ;I always use Bright 1 as my input on both.

The two together are stunning as you can imagine, the J40 adds some rich bottom end that I find lacking on the J20.

Im driving the input of the J40 with a cruiser to get that edge of breakup thing happening but I might dig out my Airbreak and give that a try too.

hotpickups

Oh god I hate these posts. Am I wanting a J40 again

ruoma

What are the speakers in the j40? Alnico's? Do they have that upper mid spike like the j20 does?

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ruoma said:

What are the speakers in the j40? Alnico's? Do they have that upper mid spike like the j20 does?

The J40 has a 50w Tayden Ace alnico speaker.

Tonally, I much prefer the J40 to the J20, it has a rich bottom end, no mid spike like the J20 and the top end really sparkles, with the negative feedback wide open, it has a real 3D Matchless-like quality.

The J20 is much more mid focused and 'ragged' like a tweed deluxe should be. It does have the major advantages of being more portable, is voiced so it cuts through any mix and is infinitely more tameable that the J40.

Together they are outstanding.

TCat

I was very near to buying the fantastic J20, then I tried out the Toneking Imperial II.....................game over, the Toneking is in the front room............................lazy J is one of the finest out there, but to my ears, it was just pipped at the post by Tonekings ability to totally nail the blackface clean AND the driven tweedy sounds. Best I've ever had including loads of Fenders, old AC30s, Dr Z, Mike Marsh, Musicman etc etc

hotpickups

TCat said:

I was very near to buying the fantastic J20, then I tried out the Toneking Imperial II.....................game over, the Toneking is in the front room............................lazy J is one of the finest out there, but to my ears, it was just pipped at the post by Tonekings ability to totally nail the blackface clean AND the driven tweedy sounds. Best I've ever had including loads of Fenders, old AC30s, Dr Z, Mike Marsh, Musicman etc etc

One step further I took @TCat. I already had a J20 for the past 3 years and recently lucky enough to be able to buy an Imperial MkII too. Waiting on a splitter to be delivered to try them both together but both extraordinary amps

ruoma

@miserneil Matchless huh? So I guess it won't do blackface cleans? Is it quicker then the j20 though in it's attack?

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ruoma said:

@miserneil Matchless huh? So I guess it won't do blackface cleans? Is it quicker then the j20 though in it's attack?

@ruoma Well, sort of, yes. There is a switch on the underside of the chassis that switches the voltages in the preamp
from Tweed to more Blackface and it tightens everything up and gives a much quicker, punchier attack. Turning the negative feedback off also tightens up the attack so it'll get very close to Blackface - perhaps not as close as a Carr or Toneking but very close.

its a very versatile amp but still firmly I the tweed bloodline. If you are after purely Blackface Fender, find a Blackface Fender amp.