The worst sounding amp you’ve played through?

[paisleywookiee]

i never met one! man that turkey was stiff and dirt sounded like a square wave! :lol: glad they fixed it!

Yeah, I was going to ditch my DC-5 when I had one, for the 5:50. It ended up being a bit of a turd. Then they did the 5:50/5:25+ series, and it was MUCH better. Still kept the DC-5 for the time being (wish I still had it), but whatever they did with the revision made a big difference.

 

[László]

the JC is a very weird amp to *play* if you are used to tube amps. I don't know how else to put it. It's too responsive and not enough all at the same time. It is no fun whatsoever to play solo, it's the least rewarding experience ever. "Yep. That's my guitar." It's incredibly useful, though, and has some really nice tones in it as well as being a unique pedal platform.

An SS amp will have a faster slew rate than a tube amp, so it responds differently to transients (among other differences). So any solid state amp sounds fast and more in your face, which I don't care for except on very clean tones.

Pick attack is faster, the dynamics are different, on and on I could go.

But yeah, they can be useful. Not my cuppa meat, however, but the JC did sound great on that record I mentioned.

 

[GuitarBilly74]

It had an okay clean channel. But yeah I agree. I had the 100w head. That’s why I laugh when fucking Glenn Fricker goes on about it. Like dude, it’s a crap amp. Stop peddling garbage.

When Glenn Fricker gives advice, you have to pay really close attention, then do the opposite.

 

[paisleywookiee]

When Glenn Fricker gives advice, you have to pay really close attention, then do the opposite.

Would like to give a and a laugh reaction to this.

 

[ejecta]

For me and my tastes and not every one of them… but pretty much most amps that I didn’t like had Mesa and or Boogie on it.