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So I in fact did pull out the LP Jr Sp+ and dusted off my Roland Micro Cube to have a ready to go rig in my bedroom. I eventually want to replace the Micro Cube with a Fractal AM4 and run it into the PreSonus Eris 4.5 speakers I'm using as monitors for the flat screen at the foot of my bed.
The LP Junior Special Plus sounds great. Good Jazz tones and great gain tones as well with the 490R/498T stock pickups. Interestingly I really don't like those pickups in my son's Les Paul Studio Plus but they sound wonderful in my LP Jr Sp+. It's been a good while since I've played it so it could use a good cleaning, fret board lubrication, fret polish and new strings but even as it is it's been a joy to play.
Oddly, because I'm traditionally a single coil guy, both of my current practice guitars, the ES-333 downstairs and the LP Jr Sp+ upstairs are both guitars with humbuckers. They're ideal for practice volume Jazz tones and the LP even sounds good going through the Micro Cube on the Jazz Chorus setting.
That Micro Cube has been my bullet proof travel companion for over a decade. I took it with me to practice everywhere from a cabin in the woods of Vermont to a B&B's rooftop terrace bar in Taganga Colombia.
Wow. I bet that little amp has some great stories.
