Suggestions for making a JC-120 sound nice at low volumes?
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:20 am
By "nice", I mean fixing that cliché sterile solid state amp sound it has when taking digital reverb/delay and distortion pedals at low volumes. It's not a problem whenever I'm playing with a full band, and can just crank the volume to 6+. In fact, it sounds amazing as it's allowed to break up a bit there. But with the volume at a 1 or 2 it sounds awful. Just metallic and yucky. At least with my setup for this particular band, which involves a Gretsch with TV Jones classics and a Wampler Ego compressor.
Just wondering if anyone has some interesting ideas. I thought about just sticking a Joyo American Sound on there somewhere, but that's made for PAs/recording direct, so maybe it would sound dreadful with a solid state amp—I dunno.
Alternatively, if anyone in the Trondheim area wants to either trade a JC-120 for a Twin Reverb, or a JC-40 for a Princeton Reverb, let me know, hah.
Just wondering if anyone has some interesting ideas. I thought about just sticking a Joyo American Sound on there somewhere, but that's made for PAs/recording direct, so maybe it would sound dreadful with a solid state amp—I dunno.
Alternatively, if anyone in the Trondheim area wants to either trade a JC-120 for a Twin Reverb, or a JC-40 for a Princeton Reverb, let me know, hah.