What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

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What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by Larsongs » Fri Nov 03, 2017 8:19 pm

We always talk about our Jags & JM's but not so much what Amps we pair them with.

I'm curious what Amps you all pair your Jags & JM's with? Also which model Guitar you plug into those Amps?

I have been running my AV65 Jag & AV65 JM Stereo via a Keeley 30 ms Double Tracker Pedal to either my Fender 65 DRRI & Vox AC15CC1X ( Celestion Alnico Blue) or my Fender 65 RI Princeton Reverb & Vox AC10C1 (w/Greenback). I mostly use the Abbey Mode Setting & it's Stereo Double Tracked Sound is very realistic. It can also be setup for great Reverbs, Delays, Chorus & Slapback Echo combinations of Stereo Sounds make this Pedal extremely versatile & the a Sound is great.

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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by FightingPlankton » Fri Nov 03, 2017 8:47 pm

Most members run through fender amps.
Personally I prefer my jc-120. I have several tube amps but I like the pristine clean tone of my jag thru the jazz chorus.
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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by marqueemoon » Fri Nov 03, 2017 9:08 pm

Probably my all time favorite amp for offset use is my Thomas Organ era Vox Cambridge Reverb. Like this one: https://reverb.com/item/75427-vox-cambr ... k-all-tube

Sonically sort of a Princeton meets Vox flavor. It has the spookiest reverb which sounds great with a volume pedal and some tremolo arm action. It's 12 watts and a single 10" so it does tend to fall apart if you push the low end too much at band volumes.

I know I've raved about it in other threads, but the At Mars Specialist I picked up a few months ago is still knocking my socks off. It loves Jazzmasters and lipstick tube guitars. I've dialed the pedal gain way back since getting this amp.

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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by Embenny » Fri Nov 03, 2017 9:29 pm

JCM800.

Set for some gain, gets absolutely underrated clean(ish) tone with guitar volume rolled back. Very responsive. Mid-heavy, which complements the scooped mids of a jag, JM, or Mustang (I use all 3).
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Post by dinosaurkale-> » Sat Nov 04, 2017 3:51 am

vox cambridge

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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by s_mcsleazy » Sat Nov 04, 2017 4:44 am

last time i had the chance to play loud, it was my 72 bassman. seems to have the right balance of grit and clean
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Post by Singlebladepickup » Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:10 am

That pedal looks pretty neat. I think it's the same double tracking thing keeley uses on the Memphis Sun? I love that effect, I'd totally plug a mic in and go all John Lennon

I don't have much to add to amp thing, I play my jag through my Princeton reverb 78' or silvertone 1482

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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by JagInTheBag » Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:46 am

Rivera Venus 3, no pedals- no need for them. Class A 15 Watt 6V6 Tube amp. I can cut power to 7 watts, and I also have a foot-switchable and adjustable gain boost. It has 3 band equalization and a scoop switch so I can get "Vintage Tweed" and "Black Face" tones all day long. It also has an Accutronics 3-Spring Reverb Tank built in. It is a 1x12, with a 12" Celestion G12 Heritage 30 speaker. If I wanted to run effects, it has an effects loop. Also a line out to slave another amp, or record at line level. It also has a second speaker out if I wanted to stack it on an external cab. Old school with all the modern flexibility and built like a brick outhouse!

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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by julius2790 » Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:39 am

I recently saw a great band (Tobin Sprout) play using two of these amps...

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A Tele and a Jazzmaster through these and it sounded FANTASTIC. Wish I could play one. Apparently the colored tabs activate different tone settings. Super cool.

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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by soul1 » Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:09 am

Any Fender blackface.

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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by Chiediazanna » Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:50 am

Fender blues junior 15w, four pedals, Jazzmaster.

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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by TeenageShutdown! » Sat Nov 04, 2017 7:10 pm

julius2790 wrote:
Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:39 am
I recently saw a great band (Tobin Sprout) play using two of these amps...

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A Tele and a Jazzmaster through these and it sounded FANTASTIC. Wish I could play one. Apparently the colored tabs activate different tone settings. Super cool.
Oh shit, I didn’t know he was touring! Cool amp. I can see Tobin belting out some lo fi shit with Pollard singing drunken anthems.

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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by Maggieo » Sat Nov 04, 2017 7:27 pm

The Secret Agent by Pierce Custom Instruments.

Amazing amp.

https://youtu.be/kF92fQiChDk

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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by Venice Lockjaw » Sat Nov 04, 2017 7:44 pm

Maggieo wrote:
Sat Nov 04, 2017 7:27 pm
The Secret Agent by Pierce Custom Instruments.
Really impressed by this, especially for the price.

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Re: What is your favorite Amp for your Jags & JM's?

Post by electric12 » Sun Nov 05, 2017 1:37 am

My main amp is a 70's Selmer Treble & Bass 50 SV. It's loud and very clean which is ideal for running loads of pedals into.

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