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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:00 am
by wormdiet
The big issue I have with a lot of "practice" amps is that they come with dinky speakers and flabby low end.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:32 am
by ken_j
Paul, If you have the early Blues Jr. with the green circuit board there is a fix for the reverb hum. I have the link at home for the mods. Let me know and I will post it or send some info to your Email. Mine is a later version with the cream board. Fender fixed it by then.
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"The big issue I have with a lot of 'practice' amps is that they come with dinky speakers and flabby low end."
The Blues Jr. has a 12" speaker. The bottom end is ok, but I changed two of the tone circuit caps for even more bottom. The cost was about $5.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:14 pm
by early_topboost
I have a Blues Junior, and I love it! Very Vox ac15ish. Running the master volume at full, and the preamp to about 4 gives a great full sound with slight break up. Loud enough for the bands I play in, and this amp sounds good played quietly as well.
I recently compared a Traynor 20w combo to a new BJ, not bad but much harsher in my opinion. The BJ has a more "classic" tone.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:53 pm
by chim
i have a traynor ycv40 and i think it sounds absolutely beautiful, i never crank it past 3 and it just sounds gorgeous with ricks. No headphone output though, if thats a major deal
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:25 pm
by ken_j
As promised here is the link for the Blues Jr. mods. They are backed up with alot of data and test results. I did the bias mod and the tone stack mod and am very happy with both. The reverb mod is about halfway down the page. I found this on the Fender forum. I only read good reveiws about it.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/machrone/bluesjunior.htm
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:48 pm
by paul_shover
Ken,
My Blues Junior does have the green circuit board and I would love to fix that hum. I use that amp live every week, and if I have the reverb on, it bothers the soundman. So I have just left the reverb off for the last year or two. So if you would, I would love to have that link on how to fix it. Thanks, Paul
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:50 pm
by paul_shover
Ken, Thank-you very much. I will get to work on it. Paul
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:39 pm
by ken_j
Paul, You are welcome. Do the bias mod too, you won't regret it. Bill is a good guy to deal with. If you buy the kits from him he sends you templates for drilling and laying out the mods on the circuit board plus a little more info than on the web site. Well worth it.
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:20 pm
by fendertweed2
VibroChamp, BF or SF...
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:56 pm
by rogiercreemers
I use a Laney LC-15R and it sounds really sweet... So sweet even, that I gig with it (with a mike stuck in front of the amp of course).
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:05 pm
by wormdiet
I just bought a vox tonelab SE. I'm running it through an ancient solid state practice amp and. . . it sounds really good!. On the "clean" models it breaks up very, very nicely when you dig in with strumming. It is more versatile than anything that comes with a speaker, but you can use any powered monitor with a relatively flat frequency response with it. Something like a keyboard amp or PA monitor apparently works best, but solid state guitar amps work fine too.
The version of the tonelab without stomp pedals (more like a POD-type box) runs $300.
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:41 am
by ken_j
John, is that the one that uses a single tube (possibly a 12AX7)?
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:40 am
by wormdiet
Indeed. In the POWER section.