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:
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: