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I had the Jet City before the Eleven Rack, and it was the reason the Eleven Rack went. Well, the first one, anyway. Here's a list of all the things I thought were better than the Jet City, but turned out not to be:
ADA MP-1
Rocktron Piranha
Eleven Rack
Bogner Ecstasy Red + MJW 18-watter (althought the jury's still out on the first half of this bit)
Framus Cobra
Soldano Decatone
Victory Kraken
You'll note they all have one thing in common - they're all far more expensive than a Jet City amp.
Really, once you've bought it and used it and the money is gone, all your left with is the box of electrical gubbins and it has to stand or fall on its own merit.
Endemic in the pedal world. A boutique Rat clone isn't better than a rat because it costs more. It's just different, for better or worse or sometimes both.
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
Plus there's the fact that my rig is designed to be lightweight. I can handle an extra couple of kg to go from a Kraken to a JCA22H; another amp and cab on top of that, and the benefits significantly outweigh the drawbacks.
I'm mostly happy with my ac15 alike but I haven't gotten rid of my bandit yet because it does quite a lot of stuff far better than the ac15. Yet one is a turret board, vintage style hand wired jobby and the other is, well , a bandit .
Not the bank balance.
If the JetCity worked for you, do it.
or to put your quandary into another frame of reference.
"I play in an SRV/Hendrix covers band, but I found my Mexican Strat sounded much better than my Les Paul Standard, am I mad? the Les Paul is much more expensive than the Strat"
Not the same as a Decatone at all. Really it's just a massively expensive Jet City, so it sounds like it should be the very thing for you .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Once, and to be honest I wasn't all that impressed. There certainly didn't seem to be enough there to justify it being about 20 times the price of a Jet City.
Probably a month or two. It won't muddy the waters for me, though, because it has a clean channel and a drive channel - I need crunch and drive.
One with a clipped C6 cap on the gain channel, one without.
From conversation volume to a big stage roar, I've never heard anything better in my 37 years of gigging.
I really don't understand how their brand isn't absolutely huge. I suppose it could be something to do with the misstep in the design of the effects loop on the JCA50H and JCA100H, or it could be the rumour some retailers started about them being unreliable (when it was actually that they got shafted by the distributors, but couldn't say that in public without looking petulant).
Actually just found the specs:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/jet-city-amplification-amelia-50w-tube-guitar-amplifier-head#productDetail
If you ask the guys who've played the prototypes, it's very much like the Cornford MK50 Mk II.
Aside from that...50W, EL34 (I think), two channels (clean and drive) with independent EQ, dual footswitchable master volumes.
Somebody spotted a pre-order page on Musicians' Friend a while back, $499.
Might be a stupid question, but how hard would it be to mod a JCA to have the Lucky 13 clean channel?
But at the right level - a glorious sounding thing. And I'm not generally a Brit based amp/high gain fan.