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Gig was a biker rally, outdoors. Nice big stage. here's my signal path:
3 different guitars - Peavey Wolfgang special FM (USA) - stock pickups, ESP MII Deluxe - duncan JB bridge, ESP/Duncan rail in neck, Charvel USA strat - Dimarzio neck and middle, Duncan hot rails in neck.
Wireless to a JGCable modded Wah (vocal, true bypass, midrange, volume mods) to a self modded Boss super overdrive pedal. From there to the JSX high gain input.
FX loop on the JSX was a Pod XT Live for effects - I mainly used a little delay on songs that needed it, had reverb all the time, and had a patch set up with a volume boost for solos.
Cab used was a Marshall 1960 slant w/75 watt celestions, SM57 mic'd about 1.5" away from the grill, center up and down on speaker moved to side where it was dead on with the dust cap seam.
Clean channel sounded great. Punchy, a little compressed, nice overall. Not the best but not the worst clean channel on a multichannel amp I've ever heard. I'd rate it a little better than average.
Crunch channel - kicked ass. Reminded me a bit of a JCM800 single channel tone. Used the Super Overdrive to boost it a bit here and there. Channel also cleans up well with volume control on your guitar - in a pinch, you could probably play a gig with this one channel alone.
Ultra Channel - very nice! Plenty of gain for solos, EQ is powerful and works well. Both the ultra and crunch channels are scoopy sounding, so you really have to run the mids a little high so it punches live - I had both of the mids on the channels on 8, or at 3 o'clock. Very easy to get controllable feedback at decent volumes.
Overall: Channel switching is fast and quiet. Noise gate doesn't work that well - it just kills a little high end hiss. I used the gate in the XT Live, then noticed it was robbing some sustain and tone, so I backed it off and would footswitch to a clean channel between songs. The amp is a little hissy, but for as much gain as it has, it's within typical levels.
FX loop works great. I'd recommend this amp for anyone looking for a bargain 3 channel tube head - I like it more than the XXX series (I checked one out saturday before the gig at a local music store... the JSX is smoother and a little less gain, but you don't need XXX gain, trust me on this!) [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
Pete
3 different guitars - Peavey Wolfgang special FM (USA) - stock pickups, ESP MII Deluxe - duncan JB bridge, ESP/Duncan rail in neck, Charvel USA strat - Dimarzio neck and middle, Duncan hot rails in neck.
Wireless to a JGCable modded Wah (vocal, true bypass, midrange, volume mods) to a self modded Boss super overdrive pedal. From there to the JSX high gain input.
FX loop on the JSX was a Pod XT Live for effects - I mainly used a little delay on songs that needed it, had reverb all the time, and had a patch set up with a volume boost for solos.
Cab used was a Marshall 1960 slant w/75 watt celestions, SM57 mic'd about 1.5" away from the grill, center up and down on speaker moved to side where it was dead on with the dust cap seam.
Clean channel sounded great. Punchy, a little compressed, nice overall. Not the best but not the worst clean channel on a multichannel amp I've ever heard. I'd rate it a little better than average.
Crunch channel - kicked ass. Reminded me a bit of a JCM800 single channel tone. Used the Super Overdrive to boost it a bit here and there. Channel also cleans up well with volume control on your guitar - in a pinch, you could probably play a gig with this one channel alone.
Ultra Channel - very nice! Plenty of gain for solos, EQ is powerful and works well. Both the ultra and crunch channels are scoopy sounding, so you really have to run the mids a little high so it punches live - I had both of the mids on the channels on 8, or at 3 o'clock. Very easy to get controllable feedback at decent volumes.
Overall: Channel switching is fast and quiet. Noise gate doesn't work that well - it just kills a little high end hiss. I used the gate in the XT Live, then noticed it was robbing some sustain and tone, so I backed it off and would footswitch to a clean channel between songs. The amp is a little hissy, but for as much gain as it has, it's within typical levels.
FX loop works great. I'd recommend this amp for anyone looking for a bargain 3 channel tube head - I like it more than the XXX series (I checked one out saturday before the gig at a local music store... the JSX is smoother and a little less gain, but you don't need XXX gain, trust me on this!) [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
Pete
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