Hey!
I've had a JP2C for a while now and while it's been an amp that I really enjoy, the only times that I really enjoy it is when I have the gain cranked to MAX. I've tried without fail different settings with lower gain in ch2/ch3 and the tone is pretty lacking. I tried doing a full tube swap and it make any significant differences to the tone.. So I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong? Initially I figured it may be an issue with me playing at low volumes, but I mitigate that by plugging in the cabclone and using the -10db attenuator so that I can crank it and I still get the same result I think part of it may be due to the tubes not being sufficiently warmed up, and the tone definitely improves after playing for a while.. But I still feel like I'm missing something to get that aggressive saturated tone I hear from others.
Just to give you guys an idea to what I'm hearing, I did a test between my JP2c and my Mark V:25 and even with my mark on a LOWER gain setting than my JP2c, it has more aggression, saturation and gain. I also did a test with 2 different guitars (an ibanez and a JP6) just to see if there were any differences related to the output of the guitar, but I think generally the results were the same.
Here are my amp settings:
MARK V:25
JP2C
Audio clips:
MARK V:25
Ibanez - https://soundcloud.com/jacob-j-153339694/ibanez-v25
JP6 - https://soundcloud.com/jacob-j-153339694/jp6-v25
JP2C
Ibanez - https://soundcloud.com/jacob-j-153339694/ibanez-jp2c
JP6 - https://soundcloud.com/jacob-j-153339694/jp6-jp2c
Hoping someone could give me some insight on why I'm unable to get those nice searing JP2C rhythm tones. Thanks for reading!
I've had a JP2C for a while now and while it's been an amp that I really enjoy, the only times that I really enjoy it is when I have the gain cranked to MAX. I've tried without fail different settings with lower gain in ch2/ch3 and the tone is pretty lacking. I tried doing a full tube swap and it make any significant differences to the tone.. So I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong? Initially I figured it may be an issue with me playing at low volumes, but I mitigate that by plugging in the cabclone and using the -10db attenuator so that I can crank it and I still get the same result I think part of it may be due to the tubes not being sufficiently warmed up, and the tone definitely improves after playing for a while.. But I still feel like I'm missing something to get that aggressive saturated tone I hear from others.
Just to give you guys an idea to what I'm hearing, I did a test between my JP2c and my Mark V:25 and even with my mark on a LOWER gain setting than my JP2c, it has more aggression, saturation and gain. I also did a test with 2 different guitars (an ibanez and a JP6) just to see if there were any differences related to the output of the guitar, but I think generally the results were the same.
Here are my amp settings:
MARK V:25
JP2C
Audio clips:
MARK V:25
Ibanez - https://soundcloud.com/jacob-j-153339694/ibanez-v25
JP6 - https://soundcloud.com/jacob-j-153339694/jp6-v25
JP2C
Ibanez - https://soundcloud.com/jacob-j-153339694/ibanez-jp2c
JP6 - https://soundcloud.com/jacob-j-153339694/jp6-jp2c
Hoping someone could give me some insight on why I'm unable to get those nice searing JP2C rhythm tones. Thanks for reading!