Members Damokles Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Hi everyone Now that i have a fairly good guitar for the first time since i started playing( an Ibanez prestige 2550) i feel like getting another Amp to reach the tone i want. I'm currently playing a hughes&Kettner tube 100 thorugh a marshall 1936 Cab and use a Hugeh&Kettner Warp factor for distortion. While the Cleans of that amp are top notch i don't like my distorted tone. At first it doesn't Sound big enough when i crank up. The Rhythm gets too trebly and doesn't have anough focus and Punch o doo heavey Palm muted riffs (that's what i want). I tried eq ing and everything but besides changing the amount of how the amp pierces my ear it doesn't change anything. A rhythm tone i'd like would be the one of a XXX / 5150 / Dual Recto . Now for my leads: totally horrible, thin buzzy soudn no sweetness nothing. horrible i think it's just the nature of the Amp. I love to play lead and do it wherever i can without driving my bandmates crazy So i need a nice lead tone that oozes with saturdation and sustain without sounding buzzy fuzzy. I've been playing for 4 years, my current Amp is my second amp in general and my first tube amp so i have no clue whether it makes sense to change cabinets, buy a new amp or switch pedals. I guess a 4x12" Cab would help me to soudn bigger because i allready played through one and it kicked ass but it didn't help me qith my other problems. So please recomment me a nice amp or pedal while keeping in mind that my budget is somewhere around 1000$ so a XXX would be possible, a recto way out of reach. thank you and good night! Damokles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cobrahead1030 Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 sounds like the peavey jsx would be right up your alley, it's heavily based on the XXX, but it has an even better clean channel, and it doesn't have the fizziness of the XXX series also, that marshall 2x12 isn't helping you as far as sounding 'bigger' either, not because it's a 2x12 but because it's not a very well designed cab IMO (the 1936 are some of more tinny 2x12's i've played, especially in their price range) a new cab wouldn't definitely help as well...lots of options there, avatar makes some really great cabs that are priced about as good as a cab can be edit: places like musicians friend etc. have the jsx listed @1199, but there are ways to haggle them down to about a grand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Viesczy Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by cobrahead1030 edit: places like musicians friend etc. have the jsx listed @1199, but there are ways to haggle them down to about a grand 'Fess up and tell how! FWIW, I'd go with the XXX because it does what you're asking. Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sordid1 Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Either the XXX or JSX are awesome but the XXX needs some tube swapping to get where you want and the JSX sounds great stock. I think if I didn't already own the XXX I would go with the JSX because it already has the noise gate built in and you have more control over the sound. I don't like the big J on the face plate but I didn't like mudflap chicks either and that's easily fixable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JerryP Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Here you go FJA Modded XXX Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members georges Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by Sordid1 Either the XXX or JSX are awesome but the XXX needs some tube swapping to get where you want and the JSX sounds great stock. I think if I didn't already own the XXX I would go with the JSX because it already has the noise gate built in and you have more control over the sound. I don't like the big J on the face plate but I didn't like mudflap chicks either and that's easily fixable. you can take the J off.. it was designed so it just looks like a normal head with those metal bits off. I think it said on one of the interviews somewhere.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sordid1 Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by georges you can take the J off.. it was designed so it just looks like a normal head with those metal bits off. I think it said on one of the interviews somewhere.. I have seen that before but then it looks boring. I think my next amp will be something completely different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JerryP Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by georges you can take the J off.. it was designed so it just looks like a normal head with those metal bits off. I think it said on one of the interviews somewhere.. It's an S and even if you remove the chrome panel the wood behind it still has the S cut out of it. You could remove the chrome S and mount some other type panel on there.Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sordid1 Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by JerryP It's an S and even if you remove the chrome panel the wood behind it still has the S cut out of it. You could remove the chrome S and mount some other type panel on there.Jerry Weird Jerry, There was someone on here that removed the S and I thought there was just that mesh stuff behind it. Maybe they modified it or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JerryP Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by Sordid1 Weird Jerry, There was someone on here that removed the S and I thought there was just that mesh stuff behind it. Maybe they modified it or something. Here it is. Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sordid1 Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by JerryP Here it is. Jerry Thanks Jerry, as usual you are right and i'm wrong. I'm going to stop arguing with you one of these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cobrahead1030 Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by Viesczy 'Fess up and tell how!FWIW, I'd go with the XXX because it does what you're asking.Derek there's an e bay seller that has them for $950 shipped new, if you go to the jsx page on music123.com they've got that "seen it for less? we'll beat it!" link at the bottom...send them the link to the e-bay auction being that it's an auction they won't beat the price, but since it's still a new one in the auction, they'll come close to it! they offered me one for $1,000 shipped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members superhombre2k Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 I'd get the XXX and use an EQ or overdrive pedal to get the lead sound you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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