donnyboiler
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- Jul 31, 2016
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New amp day! Previous Mark V and current JP-2C owner... was looking for a portable package for Central London gigs, also to open up some possibilities for plane and train stuff.
Very impressed! I can get close to my main JP-2C medium high gain sound on IIC+ mode, a little less weighty but very punchy, chunky and satisfying. Cleans up so well which really opens up a lot of possibilities for how you use the first channel.
I don’t use a clean sound for gigging - I’m a volume pot guy and the cleanest I really like is SRV unless you’re talking studio cleans. So on channel 1 I can live on Crunch mode which is punchy, fat, and more Marshally than on the full-size head. It cleans up spectacularly. Or I can dial up Fat mode with the gain and mid boost cranked and it will distort beautifully and cleans up better still. This gives me the same two sounds I use in my JP-2C but in a small, light package.
It’s small enough to carry down the street or wait in line on the tube, it’s incredibly neat and tough, and it has CabClone which I’ve been using a lot live; it performs really well especially when you have a speaker connected as well. I find it better than an indifferently mic’d speaker actually - although for full album quality there are better options.
What has really struck me though is the versatility - you could take this to any session and do something appropriate. The amazing cleans and high gains I was expecting (and Extreme mode is massive) but I did not expect it to clean up so well or feel so musical at mid-gain. I thought I’d miss Tweed mode from the regular V but the mid boost control renders it unnecessary.
Also thought I’d miss the extra girth compared to the JP-2C but it’s so punchy, musical, and palm mutes are so satisfying that I enjoy playing through it just as much - even more at lower levels.
Very impressed! I can get close to my main JP-2C medium high gain sound on IIC+ mode, a little less weighty but very punchy, chunky and satisfying. Cleans up so well which really opens up a lot of possibilities for how you use the first channel.
I don’t use a clean sound for gigging - I’m a volume pot guy and the cleanest I really like is SRV unless you’re talking studio cleans. So on channel 1 I can live on Crunch mode which is punchy, fat, and more Marshally than on the full-size head. It cleans up spectacularly. Or I can dial up Fat mode with the gain and mid boost cranked and it will distort beautifully and cleans up better still. This gives me the same two sounds I use in my JP-2C but in a small, light package.
It’s small enough to carry down the street or wait in line on the tube, it’s incredibly neat and tough, and it has CabClone which I’ve been using a lot live; it performs really well especially when you have a speaker connected as well. I find it better than an indifferently mic’d speaker actually - although for full album quality there are better options.
What has really struck me though is the versatility - you could take this to any session and do something appropriate. The amazing cleans and high gains I was expecting (and Extreme mode is massive) but I did not expect it to clean up so well or feel so musical at mid-gain. I thought I’d miss Tweed mode from the regular V but the mid boost control renders it unnecessary.
Also thought I’d miss the extra girth compared to the JP-2C but it’s so punchy, musical, and palm mutes are so satisfying that I enjoy playing through it just as much - even more at lower levels.