G'day Folks!
Recently, I had a thread going on my Bugera V22 tube amp. As that amp began to give me heartache, I ordered a Jet City 20watt 1x12 combo (JCA2112RC) to replace it. I received the amp on Friday and there is some fantastic tones coming from this amp. I can get a slightly gritty clean (I know what you're thinking gritty but clean? I'll explain in a second.) to a heavily overdriven tone from this amp. There is not a lot of clean headroom because the preamp/gain volume must be up around 1 for the amp to produce sound. Its truely a preamp stage control. Controls go up to 9, but I couldn't get the master volume past 4 or 5 when my ears couldn't take it anymore (preamp was maxed out).
Its a simple, but effective amp. 5 12AX7's (two for Reverb) and 2 EL84's.
The control panel is laid out like this:
-Input; -Preamp/Gain volume; -Reverb (tube driven!); -Bass; -Mid; -Treble; -Master volume; -Presence.
Then its standby and on/off switch. Very simple to control and it is based upon a Soldano Atomic 16 amp. (It was designed by Mike Soldano who is also part owner of the company). All this and I paid $288 out the door for it.
Has anyone else tried this amp? What do you think? Its supposedly mod friendly, but I don't think I need to go there... yet...
