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I fell in love within 10 minutes. One of the third series with the jacks connecting straight to the power amps. I sold it a few years later when I moved house. Stupid stupid decision.
Heavy they are. I picked up a 1st series once and sold it on. The speakers had been replaced with some old Celestions of a type I can't remember. Enormous ceramic magnets on them and the whole package was truly backbreaking.
I quite agree on the prices. The amps are very much in fashion again and it's not surprising that the older prices have gone up when the new versions are so expensive. GAK's got the JC-40 at £559: it's £1123 for the JC-120.
I think a JC-40 will appear with me in the future unless I can snaffle a couple of older Peavey Bandits for cheap in the future.
I had a JC-60 in the past as well. Excellent chorus obviously but not the same.
I think the JC-40 is the way forward for me. Later in the year once I've moved and sorted out a new job methinks. I haven't had an actual pedalboard for ages, spent the last few years relying on amp sims. Helix Native grabbed me last year and I've just bought an FCB1010 for MIDI stompy fun. That was meant to be the end of it but I couldn't resist a cheap Boss GT-100 popping up the other day. If I do get a JC-40, then I think I've nearly gone full circle and come back to something close to the pedalboard and amp setup I had 12 years or so ago...
https://i.imgur.com/pEVKqz4.jpg
I've got a spare super 65 sitting around here which to me sounds better than the cost would suggest so I may have some fun with that
@57Deluxe thanks for being a great enabler :-)
I do covet the 40, but not at a stupid lockdown price.
https://symphonymusicstore.co.uk/electric-amplifiers/4038-peavey-trans-tube-special-chorus-212-100w-2x12-combo-amplifier.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwgtWDBhDZARIsADEKwgOXBNYEpKC3z21E0t2HXHn-v66I0lJRCqGbOltgBCAaOSUeA1Y019oaAlsOEALw_wcB
Same here, a JC-40 would have so many options for the future for me:
-Monitor using outs from the computer straight into the effects loop with an FCB1010 acting as pedalboard with Helix Native or whatever I cobble together
-Straight amp on its own with pedals
-Combining with the GT-100 arriving next week.
-Adding an HX Stomp in the future, hooking that up to the FCB1010... so many possibilities.
I will go modern rather than vintage as the older ones didn't have an effects loop. The 3rd series let you into direct into the power amps and bypass the preamps but you couldn't use chorus or reverb going direct in. The manuals show the effects return then goes to the chorus and reverb so happy days indeed.
Also, if you have a mate visit for a jam (possible soon??) s/he needn't bring her/his own amp - you could put two guitars through your JC-40:
- Put aux instrument - i.e. your mate's guitar - into the JC-40’s L/mono input
- Jumper a mono TS patch lead from Effects send to L/mono return. Loop should be set to “serial”.
- Plug your own guitar, via your pedal board, into the JC-40’s R return.
Given the above setup, the "aux instrument" can exclusively use the JC-40’s volume/EQ/distortion controls. So each of you get their own dedicated channel of the JC-40’s available pair.
If playing out, you could also use either or both of the JC-40’s Line out jacks to DI “aux" or “main" instruments to the PA. Would need a dummy plug in the R send if you wanted the L/mono send to just send the L half - i.e. the "aux instrument".
Caveat: Post effects on the JC-40 - i.e. reverb and vib/chorus - are shared between channels! Reverb sounds OK on both channels, but the chorus and vibrato don’t appear to work very sanely when using the amp in this way - they are best left off…
Ordering a JC40 this week. New JC120s are too spendy and I think the JC22 might not have the openness of sound I'm after. JC40 it is and I'm wondering if Roland are stopping production. Andertons have the 40 and 120 on clearance and the Roland website doesn't list the 40 in its extensive manual database.
The setup I'm going for once I've moved at the end of June is this:
Guitar--> pedals --> into audio interface running Helix Native with MIDI controller controlling pedals --> stereo outs into the JC40 effects loop --> chorus and reverb from amp --> speakers.
A decade ago I had a JC120 and a double pedalboard affair.
I'm predicting something similar by the end of the year!
The video below was a big help. 22 sounded a little more compressed than the bigger two. 120 has the fullest sound as you'd expect but the 40 seemed nicely balanced.
It’s a huge sounding amp for a 1x12 with loads of bottom end but I’ve got a little Swart and a champ for home and I can’t see me ‘playing out’ for some time yet.
Ill check but I think I paid £350 ish for it so happy to let it go for that