Re: I'm possibly buying a late 70's JC120

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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by daydreamdelay » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:15 am

it's here and it sounds lovely!

more later  :)

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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by stevejamsecono » Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:04 pm

Fantastic, glad to hear you like it :)
Good effects platforms too, so you can get all sorts of mid-period Cure-ish weirdness out of it :)

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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by OffYourFace » Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:34 pm

northern_dirt wrote:
Yeah.. gotta love and amp with Treble.. and HI treble.. (I think this was only on the JC 120 Heads... )
the old JC-77 I have has the two trebles as well.  The later JC-120 has a bright switch.

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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by daydreamdelay » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:38 pm

lol the first thing that I played was a forest... guthrie would hate me ::) :D

I had to do it


my god it's a gorgeous sounding amp and isn't too heavy for me.. I've had worse but it's big for sure, good thing for the casters. Normally I'd remove them right away but I don't feel as bad rolling a SS amp around. I always worried about rattling the shit out of valves

HOLY BRIGHT SWITCH!  ear bleeding ice picks!!

HOLY HORRIBLE DISTORTION!  :-X :k

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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by northern_dirt » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:47 pm

Yeah the distortion is best avoided hahahha
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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by daydreamdelay » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:53 pm

I will never speak of it again.. as they say, a picture says a thousand words

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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by williamh » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:33 pm

I've always had a desire to buy a jc-120, but I never seem to pick one up when I have the cash laying about.  I guess I just can't justify dropping the cash on a solid state amp these days.

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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by northern_dirt » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:38 pm

Its THE solid state amp
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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by williamh » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:09 am

northern_dirt wrote: Its THE solid state amp
yeah, my main issue with buying one would be that I'm not currently in a band where I'd be able to make use of one.  Just wouldn't work with the stuff my band does.

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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by LeonDanger » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:12 am

northern_dirt wrote: Yeah the distortion is best avoided hahahha
I don't know about that one. I always thought the same when I played them in a store or something, but I used one in my old band. If you turn it up over so loud that the speakers start to sound as if they are on their last breath, the "distortion" knob up to maybe 5-7ish and use a heavy strum it got a tone that I liked, just stay the hell away from that bright switch!!  But turning up that loud isn't good for your, or anyone in a 1km radius's ears  ;)

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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by northern_dirt » Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:51 am

LeonDanger wrote:
northern_dirt wrote: Yeah the distortion is best avoided hahahha
I don't know about that one. I always thought the same when I played them in a store or something, but I used one in my old band. If you turn it up over so loud that the speakers start to sound as if they are on their last breath, the "distortion" knob up to maybe 5-7ish and use a heavy strum it got a tone that I liked, just stay the hell away from that bright switch!!  But turning up that loud isn't good for your, or anyone in a 1km radius's ears  ;)
I think it depends on what yer after.. With distortion I used to only use Marshall tube amps cranked.. the JC can't do that
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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by Pacafeliz » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:36 am

the worst built-in distortion EVER must've been in my old Super Twin Reverb... oh man it was -how did they state it in the Guitar Player review- "flick it on, and you'll swear the mighty super is powered by an old battery" (or so...)
ridiculous for a 180w combo.

the JC120's "distortion" might work with some humbuckers, to give you some slight overdrive. but well, that's what pedals are for.
the chorus/vibrato are spectacular, thought, right?
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Re: I'm buying a late 70's JC120

Post by northern_dirt » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:02 pm

Mine didn't have Vibrato.. Just chorus..
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