New amp; inbound. FINALLY \M/

[JiveTurkey]

This amp is made to go through a load box then out from there to the Axe III

 

[FuzzyAce]

I guess I am going to read the manual now FFS

A manual for a tube amp?

 

[texhex]

This amp is made to go through a load box then out from there to the Axe III

Now you cookin baby!

 

[EOengineer]

A manual for a tube amp?

Laughs in Mesa/Boogie…

 

[Mikael Dez]

This amp is made to go through a load box then out from there to the Axe III

Amp + loadbox + modeler is modern day perfection

 

[Frodebro]

4. Dump ALL of the MIDI garbage in this amp. I don't want presets. I want channels. If I reset the MIDI recallable presets in the amp following the instructions; it shouldn't still act like it is scrolling through presets (on a feature by feature basis) as I use the footswitch.

5. All the volume and master controls. Simplify them. I do not want to read a fucking manual to dial in a goddamn amp; I just want to turn it on and start blasting.

6. As a power amp this thing fucking smokes. As an amp on just barely skimming the manual goes; wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too over complicated. Dumb it down to face ripper. The tones are fucking STUPID good

7. Not a GC purchase so I am going to bite the bullet and enjoy for what it is.

8. Supper time sure came early

The MIDI capabilities are really handy if you bought one used without the foot switch, and are running it 4CM with an FM9. I have my FM9 set up where the first six scenes select each of the six modes, then I kitchen sink the effects I use around that. I also use the different channels in the drive blocks to run specific drives and setting for each mode. It works really well for my needs.

 

[megametal7]

 

[JiveTurkey]

The MIDI capabilities are really handy if you bought one used without the foot switch, and are running it 4CM with an FM9. I have my FM9 set up where the first six scenes select each of the six modes, then I kitchen sink the effects I use around that. I also use the different channels in the drive blocks to run specific drives and setting for each mode. It works really well for my needs.

What loop are you using and how do you have the FM set? Every way I tried it was murky, squealing city.

On the complicated front; the channel Volume doesn't work on the clean green channel which I had to google to find out. I am still not sure where the Master controls are or are not active. Master 2 seems to be active here and there and I am not sure if Master 1 ever made any difference. Clean/crunch channel is really useless to my ears. OD channel is pure though. Like; put it up on old school Mt. Rushmore with 5150s and Dual Rectifiers level. It's THAT good \m/ Oof.

I'm thinking sawing down a 205 112 combo OR having a Crab Custom made with just the OD channel with a better loop would be INSANE and the ultimate form factor (and carryable )

 

[Frodebro]

What loop are you using and how do you have the FM set? Every way I tried it was murky, squealing city.

On the complicated front; the channel Volume doesn't work on the clean green channel which I had to google to find out. I am still not sure where the Master controls are or are not active. Master 2 seems to be active here and there and I am not sure if Master 1 ever made any difference. Clean/crunch channel is really useless to my ears. OD channel is pure though. Like; put it up on old school Mt. Rushmore with 5150s and Dual Rectifiers level. It's THAT good \m/ Oof.

I'm thinking sawing down a 205 112 combo OR having a Crab Custom made with just the OD channel with a better loop would be INSANE and the ultimate form factor (and carryable )

I use the insert loop, but gain staging is critical here because the signal from the preamp can get pretty hot and slam the FM9 input (3) pretty hard. I actually dial back the output 3 physical knob to around 80% to lower the level going into the preamp. A gate right after the loop return, side chained to input 1, is also pretty much mandatory.

As far as the two master volumes, the JVM remembers your settings so if you manually select them as needed when dialing things in they will remember which one is active for each mode. It won't remember how the knobs are set, but it remembers the settings controlled by the buttons (modes, reverb, loop 1, and master volume 1 or 2).

 

[JiveTurkey]

I use the insert loop, but gain staging is critical here because the signal from the preamp can get pretty hot and slam the FM9 input (3) pretty hard. I actually dial back the output 3 physical knob to around 80% to lower the level going into the preamp. A gate right after the loop return, side chained to input 1, is also pretty much mandatory.

As far as the two master volumes, the JVM remembers your settings so if you manually select them as needed when dialing things in they will remember which one is active for each mode. It won't remember how the knobs are set, but it remembers the settings controlled by the buttons (modes, reverb, loop 1, and master volume 1 or 2).

Too.


Complicated.

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

This amp is made to go through a load box then out from there to the Axe III

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the remastered Fractal JVM's compared to the actual amp.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

What loop are you using and how do you have the FM set? Every way I tried it was murky, squealing city.

On the complicated front; the channel Volume doesn't work on the clean green channel which I had to google to find out. I am still not sure where the Master controls are or are not active. Master 2 seems to be active here and there and I am not sure if Master 1 ever made any difference. Clean/crunch channel is really useless to my ears. OD channel is pure though. Like; put it up on old school Mt. Rushmore with 5150s and Dual Rectifiers level. It's THAT good \m/ Oof.

I'm thinking sawing down a 205 112 combo OR having a Crab Custom made with just the OD channel with a better loop would be INSANE and the ultimate form factor (and carryable )

I love orange crunch

I agree green clean is completely useless though. I only use Orange crunch, Green and Orange OD.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Too.


Complicated.

JT's other self:

 

[JiveTurkey]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the remastered Fractal JVM's compared to the actual amp.

FAS JVM pre-remaster were great to my uninformed ears. Still great now, though I don't know if I hear that much of a change the way I have them dialed in? The real amp is a 210 so there will be differences there but I feel like really it's just a lot MEANER souding than the FAS models. And not that they can't be aggressive; the amp at 100 watts up loud just IS because of that.

I love orange crunch

I agree green clean is completely useless though. I only use Orange crunch, Green and Orange OD.

I honestly wonder if my pickups are lower gain than I think they are? DActivators are in my main guitar. I know with my other Ibby V with 500t in the bridge I get a clip light unless I turn it down? That channel, all modes; is flubby and boring and just not gainy at all with the DActivator equipped guitar. If I did any sort of mod; it would definitely be on the clean/crunch channel.

 

[Frodebro]

Too.


Complicated.

Only the first time. Buck up, cupcake.

I love orange crunch

I agree green clean is completely useless though. I only use Orange crunch, Green and Orange OD.

I actually use green clean, we cover quite a bit from the eighties, when a lot of people were using JC120s.

Oh, and one more note for JT: I also have two EQ blocks right after the loop (actually after the gate after the loop), and each of the six modes has it's own dedicated EQ channel to fine tune each one. Avoids the balancing act with the JVM tone stacks. Yes, even more complicated. Have another cookie and dig in.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Only the first time. Buck up, cupcake.


I actually use green clean, we cover quite a bit from the eighties, when a lot of people were using JC120s.

Oh, and one more note for JT: I also have two EQ locks right after the loop (actually after the gate after the loop), and each of the six modes has it's own dedicated EQ channel to fine tune each one. Saving the balancing act with the JVM tone stacks. Yes, even more complicated. Have another cookie and dig in.

Something this oversized is staying right home on the Axe rack I am thinking more than a bit about getting a Crab JVM though and being able to justifiably take it gigging

 

[Frodebro]

Something this oversized is staying right home on the Axe rack I am thinking more than a bit about getting a Crab JVM though and being able to justifiably take it gigging

We had a rehearsal last night, and I schlepped the JVM home last week specifically to go through all my FM9 presets for it as they were about three firmware updates behind. Spent a bit of time doing that, but yesterday I went to grab it and decided fuck that noise, and brought my Studio JTM combo and my small traditional pedalboard instead. We rehearse in the other guitarist's underground basement, which is fairly small and has a low ceiling. Twenty watts is more than sufficient in that space.

I liked that so much that my twisted brain is already planning a hybrid effects rig, with physical first pedals and some analog stuff along with the FM9 for everything else. The traditional board is a Voodoo Lab with the loop switcher integrated, so it would only take a few hours of watching tutorial videos to remember how to configure the fucking thing for MIDI control. The JVM implementation is cake in comparison.

 

[JiveTurkey]

We had a rehearsal last night, and I schlepped the JVM home last week specifically to go through all my FM9 presets for it as they were about three firmware updates behind. Spent a bit of time doing that, but yesterday I went to grab it and decided fuck that noise, and brought my Studio JTM combo and my small traditional pedalboard instead. We rehearse in the other guitarist's underground basement, which is fairly small and has a low ceiling. Twenty watts is more than sufficient in that space.

I liked that so much that my twisted brain is already planning a hybrid effects rig, with physical first pedals and some analog stuff along with the FM9 for everything else. The traditional board is a Voodoo Lab with the loop switcher integrated, so it would only take a few hours of watching tutorial videos to remember how to configure the fucking thing for MIDI control. The JVM implementation is cake in comparison.

I was looking around last night and found a JVM1watt head and combo If you could slave it out to another power amp...

 

[SillyOctpuss]

I honestly wonder if my pickups are lower gain than I think they are? DActivators are in my main guitar. I know with my other Ibby V with 500t in the bridge I get a clip light unless I turn it down? That channel, all modes; is flubby and boring and just not gainy at all with the DActivator equipped guitar. If I did any sort of mod; it would definitely be on the clean/crunch channel.

The crunch channel is anything but flu by and I can get decent gain with a tele. You should be able to get classic rock level gains from crunch orange easily and more stone temple pilots gain levels from crunch red. I knock the bass back a bit with crunch red.

 

[Frodebro]

I was looking around last night and found a JVM1watt head and combo If you could slave it out to another power amp...

Slap a Creamback in the combo and get a BOSS TAE Core. That will give you plenty of power with not a lot of weight or bulk.