burke Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I love the way the Valve Jr., looks. Currently I am just playing my Epi Zephyr, jazz & finger style stuff. Does any one here use this amp for Jazz? Or does the gain get in the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWANG Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Long as you keep the volume down, it's a nice clean amp. I love those Zephyrs. Not a jazz guy, but. ....just the looks of the things! I do finger pick, and on mine I use the NFB I installed... TWANG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layboomo Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 The stock gain structure of the Valve JR is much more suited to overdriven tones than clean jazz IMHO. Clean headroom is the amps achilles heal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-theory Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 I would think that the Vjr would be near the bottom of the list of amps to be considered for jazz. Clean headroom is definitely not the amp's strong suit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWANG Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 I wouldn't rate it as a jazz amp for anything but low volume home playing. and I was kind of assuming that. I know my low volume clean sounds at home are nice and warm and satisfy me. TWANG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Lister Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 I love the way the Valve Jr.' date=' looks. Does any one here use this amp for Jazz? Or does the gain get in the way?[/quote'] VJr. can be used for jazz if you do one/more of the following... ... use an amp modeler (my POD 2.0 has some decent jazz tones on the F*nd*r models) ... change the pre amp valve to reduce gain (maybe a 5751 or 12AT7) ... *optionally you can also tweak the gain stages by using different value resistors -- along lines of the F*nd*r mods. I'm not a jazz artist (and I don't play one on TV) but I do some clean jazz tones on a few slower or balladesque songs. Here is one time where a try-out is not going to reveal anything for you. Because, as others have pointed out, VJr. is not going to do it for you out-of-the-box..., but then again there a lot of us using VJr. and who on earth besides a bedroom player here and there that is using it purely out-of-the-box? If you really love the looks, the tones you need may be inside, but you're going to have to risk the $150 and some time trying to find out. Hit every BLUE NOTE baaaby..., I'm going to play on:-" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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