#FENDER JR BLUES AMP MOD#
#FENDER JR BLUES AMP UPGRADE#

Those who would ask what pedals might sound good on the Blues Junior or how loud it is, would most likely not be a good match for this amplifier if you know what I mean. Those who purchase this amplifier are most likely Blues or Classic Rock players looking for a practice or recording amplifier or for small to average size gigs. It is a single channel amplifier and is relatively simple in tone controls. It is a bit lacking on the bass end but this is to be expected in an amplifier of this size. It has classic Fender clean tone, rich harmonics and that vintage blues/rock breakup that can't be reproduced, in my opinion, by any solid state amplifier. In the right hands, this Blues Junior really sings. I have been playing the guitar for over 25 years and can tell you unequivocally that real tone comes from a combination of experienced fingers and a good quality valve amp. This amplifier is well built and very attractive. It has wonderful vintage tone and that warm, overdriven tube sound. Try using ABY switch to go back and forth from guitar to harmonica.This amplifier is the real thing. He's a nice guy and he built Dan's 5E7M Bandmaster. Since, it had been a year between my visits, I was surprised that he remembered me. I met him a couple of times at Dan Treanor's jam at the Outlook. I have spilled a number of drinks for that reason. makes a great guitar amp too but given it's single channel nature it's a bitch trying to play both harp and guitar at the same time as guitars, especially humbuckers, want that treble turned way up. It is very headroom limited though, you will find yourself blowing your brains out if the guitar player is playing anything more than about ten watts. 5) This is my favorite pratice amp and it works well for small venues such as house parties. The circuit boards are colored differently but other than that I cannot explain the reason for this, maybe I just got lucky. This includes some of the fancy special editions with the replacement Jensen. 4) To date every MIM BJr that I have tried does not have the same tonal qualities as my USA model. 3) Mess with the reverb, sometimes for reasons unclear you get the sweetest Little Walter horn tone for no explicable reason at different reverb positions. 2) I agree that volume at 50% is definitely the starting point, I keep treble and mid at about 4-5, bass at about 6. Caveats: 1) It sounds best with with a bright JT30crystal, my two black labels crs, two white label cms and a mim cm do not sound nearly as good. delivers excellent tone in it's stock form. It is the best-sounding, nicest playing harp in my collection. He replaced a blown reed in my Hohner Marine Band Deluxe harp in A, and chamfered, arced, embossed, and tuned the harp. When I played it I found it needed a bit of pushing to get it to tip into warm distortion, but it was all very controllable and nice. When Victor played it with his EV RE-10 mic it was clean and pleasing. It sounded great, with more body and thickness than your standard BJr. and one HECK of a great deal in a grab-n-go. Today, we move to its lil brother, the Blurs Junior, which is also a perennial best-seller. Howdy Tone friends Soooo, last week we discussed the best speaker options for the Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp, Fenders all-time best selling amp.

#FENDER JR BLUES AMP UPGRADE#

He has modified the amp in ways I canвЂ™t completely describe, telling me it has a new gain stage. Best Replacement Speaker Upgrade for Fender Blues Junior. I played his BJr at the Boulder Outlook blues jam last week. The other Fender Blues Junior I tried belongs to Victor, a guy known to many harp players around Denver and across the country. The next step for this amp is a 12DW7 tube in the phase inverter socket to give it slightly more grit. The Cherry Bomb has a deeper tone due to itвЂ™s bigger cavity, thereby ameliorating some of the BJrвЂ™s brightness. It is worth noting that it sounded a lot better with my gig mic вЂ“ a Greg Heumann modded Peavey Cherry Bomb bullet mic with Shure CM element вЂ“ than it did with another bullet mic I tried. While the tone was not as crunchy and organic as I like, I would totally gig this amp with no problems. The tone was surprisingly good and feedback resistant. Master control is used to set the ampвЂ™s loudness. We fiddled with the controls and got a very satisfying tone with these settings:

#FENDER JR BLUES AMP MOD#

The only mod we made was trying a 5751 in place of the 12AX7 tube in the preamp socket. Also, newer amps powered by EL84 tubes donвЂ™t produce the tone I prefer.ДЄ friend who is a beginner at amped playing asked me to help set up his BJr. As many of you know, I have been skeptical of the BJr in the past because its high gain guitarish nature makes it unsuitable for the kind of crunchy harp tone I like. IвЂ™ve had a couple of close encounters recently with Fender Blues Juniors used as harp amps and I was impressed enough that it warrants a blog update.

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