This will be my last post here, figured Iād go out with a bang.
I have a great collection of stomp boxes. My 100 watt Mustang III digital modeling amp was overkill for recording. I wanted a really simple small tube amp that always sounds good.
Fender Pro Junior IV 1x10" 15-watt Tube Combo Amp
$649.99 from Sweetwater.
āCapable Little Tweed Tone Vehicleā
It has:
Volume knob
Tone knob
On/Off switch
Preamp Tubes: 2 x 12AX7
Power Tubes: 2 x EL84
1 x 10" Jensen P10R
No reverb circuit.
I have it set up for recording. Iām using a Klon and a Boss CP-1X compressor in front of the amp, along with various effects and overdrive/fuzz pedals.
This is a very good pedal platform. I was concerned it might not be because all of the reviews I found only talk about cranking the volume on the amp and using your volume control on the guitar for live performance. That sounds great too, but itās too loud for what Iām doing.
The single tone knob works so well for me. I just backed it off until the highs werenāt too much, ended up with the tone knob on ā3ā and it sounds amazing. Volume knob is on 2 (the Klon boosts the input).
The cabinet is only 15ā across, but I have to say, the lows sound so good and deep. Itās uncanny what this amp does with such a small cabinet.
This will turn a lot of people off - doesnāt bother me considering how it sounds:
Construction Material:
0.75" Particle board cabinet
I came very close to buying:
Vox AC15C1
Fender Blues Jr
Marshall Origin (1x10" 20-watt)
I love this simpler option. And $650 taint bad.
The sound of the amp to my ear is actually closer to a Vox or Marshall amp than a typical Fender. I guess because of the EL84s? Itās somewhere in the middle. Still has Fender DNA.
And lastly ā¦. Itās a tweed amp. Not a real one but still, I love hearing that crazy good sound coming out of my tiny tweed amp.
Some other guys who supposedly used Pro Juniors:
Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Brian Setzer, Warren Hayes
Shout out to Jared at Sweetwater. I bought it right before Memorial Day and somehow, he got it to me before the end of the holiday break. I didnāt expect it until the following week.
Yeah so this is my last post. Iāll just say certain aspects of being a member of this forum were getting annoying.
Oh, and I was on the fence about this:
Gibson Les Paul Special - TV Yellow $1,799.00
or
Fender American Professional II Telecaster - Butterscotch Blonde $1,799.99
Decisions decisions. š¤ Think Iāll be going with the Telecaster. Anyone know any good Fender-based forums? I know about Strat-Talk.
Peace/out
Hereās a video of a guy using a Pro Jr and a Klon with a Les Paul for a gig: