Members petejt Posted February 22, 2009 Members Share Posted February 22, 2009 The Roland Jazz Chorus 120 is a solid-state amp, and many claim it does not have that warmth. It's touted as the ultra-clean sterile solid-state sound, and nothing else. Well, n:o:obs, there's a trick to getting warmth out of it :poke: Use BOTH channels! haha lol just stirrin' . Yes you really can get warmth out of this amp, to give depth to the clean tone while still retaining that ringy brightness. The trick is to split your signal so you can plug into both channels. Use any stereo pedal, and switch it off. Set Channel 1 quite dark. Set Channel 2 fairly bright, especially with the mids set rather low. You'll be fattening & warming it up by mixing together the Channels with their respective Volume controls. Set both volume controls as equal as possible, and adjust to taste- Channel 1 louder for more warmth, Channel 2 for more brightness. I made a demo video last night. I plan to record this properly in the future, once I can get some microphones, a new Firewire thingamajig, and another computer. It helps too if you put a chorus pedal in front of Channel 1, on a very slow Speed. I used my Visual Sound H2O Liquid Chorus & Echo. And of course I embellished it more by chucking in my Deluxe Electric Mistress in front of all of it... There's annotations containing the settings. [YOUTUBE]8HCqLRNQW-g[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members petejt Posted February 22, 2009 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2009 Yup I played The Cure again.......hey I like that stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cap'n'crunch Posted February 22, 2009 Members Share Posted February 22, 2009 OK I'm on my way downstairs to try that with mine. Well, actually I'm gonna use 2 different distortion pedals after I split the guitar signal and blend them together. I actually think dirt pedals into a JC120 sucks ass but running 2 differently voiced dirt boxes might be kinda cool. Thanks for the tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alchemist Posted February 22, 2009 Members Share Posted February 22, 2009 sounds good.... can you make a video with no chorus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jaytee123 Posted February 22, 2009 Members Share Posted February 22, 2009 OK I'm on my way downstairs to try that with mine. Well, actually I'm gonna use 2 different distortion pedals after I split the guitar signal and blend them together. I actually think dirt pedals into a JC120 sucks ass but running 2 differently voiced dirt boxes might be kinda cool. Thanks for the tip. Depends on the "dirt" pedal. Barber Direct Drive and Sansamp GT2 work pretty well, as well as a tubescreamer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members petejt Posted February 22, 2009 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2009 sounds good.... can you make a video with no chorus? Thanks Yep probably in the next few days I'll make another video, and yep I'll do it without any effects at all except for some reverb, and then with just the in-built chorus switched on. No external chorus or flanger pedals. I'll record a loop and let it play through the amp while I show each channel separately and then mixed together, with both the in-built chorus on and off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thinkpad20 Posted February 22, 2009 Members Share Posted February 22, 2009 sounds good, but not what i'd describe as "warm"... but sounds good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members glenecho Posted February 22, 2009 Members Share Posted February 22, 2009 Another good way to get warmth out of them is playing big old hollowbody jazz guitars out of them. They aren't called "Jazz" amps for nothing and playing an Ibanez RG through them isn't gonna sound terribly warm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bigdaddyd Posted February 23, 2009 Members Share Posted February 23, 2009 Thanks Yep probably in the next few days I'll make another video, and yep I'll do it without any effects at all except for some reverb, and then with just the in-built chorus switched on. No external chorus or flanger pedals. I'll record a loop and let it play through the amp while I show each channel separately and then mixed together, with both the in-built chorus on and off. why would you use an external chorus with a JC? They are world renowned for their chorus. As for getting a warm sound, you are correct, they are definitely capable of it. I was at SIR studios a few years ago watching a Columbia artist at rehearsal and her guitar player was using on with some BOSS pedals and dude had some serious tone. It was amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cap'n'crunch Posted February 23, 2009 Members Share Posted February 23, 2009 Depends on the "dirt" pedal. Barber Direct Drive and Sansamp GT2 work pretty well, as well as a tubescreamer. Hmmm! I got a TS knockoff...I'll have to give that a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members isvoid Posted February 23, 2009 Members Share Posted February 23, 2009 why would you use an external chorus with a JC? it's that whole department of redundancy department thing that's getting very popular Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bigdaddyd Posted February 23, 2009 Members Share Posted February 23, 2009 it's that whole department of redundancy department thing that's getting very popular Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members barjv01 Posted March 14, 2009 Members Share Posted March 14, 2009 why would you use an external chorus with a JC? They are world renowned for their chorus. As for getting a warm sound, you are correct, they are definitely capable of it. I was at SIR studios a few years ago watching a Columbia artist at rehearsal and her guitar player was using on with some BOSS pedals and dude had some serious tone. It was amazing. Channel One does not have chorus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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