Fender Twin Reverb or the Roland JC-40. Really hard to choose between them on the basis of sound alone, I love them both so much. I can move the JC-40 regularly without herniating a disc which is a plus.
:michael-laugh: i used that thing for way longer than i should have. I still have it but i just use it as a stand for the roland and much like a french gourmand preparing to devour a tiny songbird, i have covered it with a cloth to hide its face from god.
Nah, it's a blackface reissue. I think it's from 1995, new tubes and recapped. And most importantly a purple lamp jewel✨. Lol the wheels are righteous but the JC-40 is a real sweet spot for bedroom practice/band practice/and at least small gigs. I was super tired of wrestling the twin reverb up/down stairs, to my car, up/down more stairs, and back every week for practice so the weight was a consideration too. Even though I've ended up parking the Twin at the practice space and keeping the JC here at home anyhow.
The super twin combo? 95lbs holy. Do you play a lot of heavy/doom/sludge sorta stuff? I see people seem to like the GT120 for that and I remember a user posting a while back about getting to do some shows with their doom band or something, might be thinking of someone else though.
Oh sick, you guys have a lot of stuff up! I will check it out. What makes the GT120MV your favorite? My amp requirements have been excellent cleans and good headroom so whatever combination of pedals I throw at it come out detailed and rich. Curious what you go for in a doomin' rig.
My twin reverb was $500 at a pawn shop but i quickly found it needed tubes and new capacitors which was a bit of a bummer. Was like ten years ago though.
How's your jc-120 treating you? I've read the old ones can be noisy.
Honestly, the possibility of everything that can go wrong with those vintage tube amps + my lack of engineering knowledge + it weighs like 120 lbs is why I probably won't ever get one :/ but a boy can dream. Shame cuz I really love the tone of those fender tube amps. My roomate plays a twin reverb and loves that thing.
Yeah, I did hear a bit about JC-120s allegedly having a bit of a low dB "hiss" regardless of how loud the amp is cranked. I tried it out a bit before I bought it and, to my ear at least, it's practically unnoticible. I think it will be a fantastic gigging amp. In live settings that hiss (which really is barely noticable) will be completely irrelevant... the notoriously clear guitar transients just cut through everything like fucking butter. I couldn't believe how clear and clean it sounds.
I havent tried yet, but I'm pretty confident I'll be able to double mic the amp for recording with no issue. Even at, like... 0.2 volume setting, the background noise completely disappears. Maybe it's just a case by case thing with the 80s models though, and I just got lucky? I have no idea. Based on this one though I would definitely recommend it, especially if you can find one on the cheap!
Ahh that's awesome to hear you got a quiet one, sounds like a pretty good deal too! I love my JC-40, absolutely only complaint I can come up with is that I wish the EQ was more responsive which is a very minor complaint. I double mic'd mine with the chorus on when I first got it just to see and it sounded great, the stereo totally comes through. I don't use the chorus super often though, it is too lush and decadent for me, i don't deserve it :punished-bernie:
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Lmao jk:miyazaki-laugh:
Fender Twin Reverb or the Roland JC-40. Really hard to choose between them on the basis of sound alone, I love them both so much. I can move the JC-40 regularly without herniating a disc which is a plus.
The GT120MV seems gnarly though damn
im not a tone snob anymore but 10 years ago this would have made my eye twitch lol
:michael-laugh: i used that thing for way longer than i should have. I still have it but i just use it as a stand for the roland and much like a french gourmand preparing to devour a tiny songbird, i have covered it with a cloth to hide its face from god.
Ironically these days when I perform I don’t even use an amp I literally just use a waves prs guitar amp plugin on my laptop lol
Hey, at least it's not a Digitech RP series. :side-eye-1:
Silverface Twin Reverb? And why not the JC120 in combo version? It has wheels!
Nah, it's a blackface reissue. I think it's from 1995, new tubes and recapped. And most importantly a purple lamp jewel✨. Lol the wheels are righteous but the JC-40 is a real sweet spot for bedroom practice/band practice/and at least small gigs. I was super tired of wrestling the twin reverb up/down stairs, to my car, up/down more stairs, and back every week for practice so the weight was a consideration too. Even though I've ended up parking the Twin at the practice space and keeping the JC here at home anyhow.
I used to have that 180 watt tube Fender that they did for like 3 years in the late 70s. That shit was H E A V Y. Glad the 40 is treating you well!
The super twin combo? 95lbs holy. Do you play a lot of heavy/doom/sludge sorta stuff? I see people seem to like the GT120 for that and I remember a user posting a while back about getting to do some shows with their doom band or something, might be thinking of someone else though.
Yep! I'm the doom person! Plague of Carcosa?
Oh sick, you guys have a lot of stuff up! I will check it out. What makes the GT120MV your favorite? My amp requirements have been excellent cleans and good headroom so whatever combination of pedals I throw at it come out detailed and rich. Curious what you go for in a doomin' rig.
It's a blues amp that dooms
Fair nuff :sankara-bass:
Theres a vintage super reverb at my local music shop for $2k and every time I walk in my gf has to pull me away that thing.
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My twin reverb was $500 at a pawn shop but i quickly found it needed tubes and new capacitors which was a bit of a bummer. Was like ten years ago though.
How's your jc-120 treating you? I've read the old ones can be noisy.
Honestly, the possibility of everything that can go wrong with those vintage tube amps + my lack of engineering knowledge + it weighs like 120 lbs is why I probably won't ever get one :/ but a boy can dream. Shame cuz I really love the tone of those fender tube amps. My roomate plays a twin reverb and loves that thing.
Yeah, I did hear a bit about JC-120s allegedly having a bit of a low dB "hiss" regardless of how loud the amp is cranked. I tried it out a bit before I bought it and, to my ear at least, it's practically unnoticible. I think it will be a fantastic gigging amp. In live settings that hiss (which really is barely noticable) will be completely irrelevant... the notoriously clear guitar transients just cut through everything like fucking butter. I couldn't believe how clear and clean it sounds.
I havent tried yet, but I'm pretty confident I'll be able to double mic the amp for recording with no issue. Even at, like... 0.2 volume setting, the background noise completely disappears. Maybe it's just a case by case thing with the 80s models though, and I just got lucky? I have no idea. Based on this one though I would definitely recommend it, especially if you can find one on the cheap!
Ahh that's awesome to hear you got a quiet one, sounds like a pretty good deal too! I love my JC-40, absolutely only complaint I can come up with is that I wish the EQ was more responsive which is a very minor complaint. I double mic'd mine with the chorus on when I first got it just to see and it sounded great, the stereo totally comes through. I don't use the chorus super often though, it is too lush and decadent for me, i don't deserve it :punished-bernie: