What Amp Are You Playing Today?

[Tenebris]

Just got back from a jazz jam session. Brought my archtop and used one of the venue’s backline amps, a Roland JC-120.

It’s kinda loud snd glassy amp, so for jazz I use the Lo input, with volume at 12:00, and use the guitar knob to adjust it as needed.

For tone, bass is all the way down and mid at around 8:00, which keeps it just at the edge of feedback. Treble is at 10:00, with a splash of reverb, except on Watermelon Man, for which I reach back and raise the reverb to 11:00 for my ad-lib, then back to 7.

This venue also has a Tonemaster, but it was on the other side of the stage tonight.

Tip for anyone who finds themselves with a backline JC (I love JCs but I know many don't.)

This doesn't necessarily work on all JCs but it has on every 77 or 120 I've tried. The Distortion knob that you normally would be cautioned to never use under any circumstances, it's on channel 2 on the 120s, turn it on. Just on, it'll click lightly, don't turn it up. This dramatically cuts the glassiness and bass boom and warms up the tone a lot.

 

[EOengineer]

Now I’m really mixing it up. I needed to check out the Meris verb in stereo so why not break out the 5e3?

 

[DISTORT6]

It's Boogie time!
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Just picked up some new kicks that would go along with this amp,
The Mira, too.

 

[KingsXJJ]

Hotone Pulze w/on board drummer.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

How are you finding the X88ir?

Over the moon with it.

 

[Eagle]

Over the moon with it.

Same , super happy. The eq is incredibly useful in a way that you just don’t normally get.

 

[Dave Lewis]

Just picked up some new kicks that would go along with this amp,
The Mira, too.

My PRS Mira is wine red .
I’ve got a few guitars they would go with
My NB’s go with this pedal
I don’t think I have a yellow guitar

 

[Eagle]

My PRS Mira is wine red .
I’ve got a few guitars they would go with
My NB’s go with this pedal
I don’t think I have a yellow guitar
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There must be some medicine !

 

[LCW]

Can never go wrong with the Jube…

 

[spawnofthesith]

Almost exclusively been playing the V at home lately

Considering taking this out to our next gig in August. I can’t trust switching to the clean channel live but I currently have edge mode on channel 2 set up for very light breakup so still could work well

 

[Dave Lewis]

Giving these two a play through this morning because they’ve not been used recently .

 

[metropolis_4]

I’ve been playing my AC30 a lot, but now that I’ve got my LP back it really loves my JRT, so I’m back to that amp now.

Got some RCA JAN 6v6’s and some new NOS RCA 5879’s that I’ve had for a month; finally put them in yesterday and they’re great. Much better than the JJ 6v6’s that were in there!

The only problem is they’re too small for the tube retainers… not sure yet what I’m gonna do about that

 

[JiveTurkey]

I’ve been playing my AC30 a lot, but now that I’ve got my LP back it really loves my JRT, so I’m back to that amp now.

Got some RCA JAN 6v6’s and some new NOS RCA 5879’s that I’ve had for a month; finally put them in yesterday and they’re great. Much better than the JJ 6v6’s that were in there!

The only problem is they’re too small for the tube retainers… not sure yet what I’m gonna do about that

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I saw a Morgan AC20 and a Dr. Z at GC yesterday and figured you'd be digging them \m/

 

[metropolis_4]

I saw a Morgan AC20 and a Dr. Z at GC yesterday and figured you'd be digging them \m/

Low watt cathode biased boutique amps are my love language

 

[JiveTurkey]

Low watt cathode biased boutique amps are my love language

They were all plugged in without speaker cabs connected

 

[metropolis_4]

They were all plugged in without speaker cabs connected

Last time I was in GC some kids were trying to get a Vox head plugged into an Orange cab working and gave up thinking it was broken… I walked over and saw they had the speaker plugged into the effects loop send