"With this amph I get no screaming solos"

[Nelskie]

Frankly speaking, I think that attitude may have surfaced after he'd pulled that gain knob a million times. Or, perhaps partially due to the Steely Dan solos he was playing not being "screaming enough". And speaking of Steely Dan, I think I'd read in a Donald Fagen interview sometime back that part of the reason Steely Dan didn't tour extensively in the late 70's and 80's due to that very fact! Or maybe it was due to the band's heavy use of recreational drugs? Or both.

Any way you look at it, playing an un-classy, not-ready-for-the-year-2000 brown amp with gold knobs will take its toll on even the best of players . . . eventually.

"Get along, get along Screamin' Amp Solo Guy, get along . . . "

[SuperSwede]

The fact that the amp is not Y2K compliant should not have been a problem back in the 70´s. However, I can see the problems with pulling the gain knob while under the influence of recreational drugs.

Here is a little pic of the brown wonder so that we know what we are talking about. Please take notice of the pull-gain!

[SuperSwede]

Apparently the JX50 has a little brother, and it seems like it has similar features! Just read what brother Vaughan wrote about it!

Price Paid: N/A
Features: 5
Well, I gotta tell you...nothing like what the above writers went through ever happened to me. It is a clean little amp that i bought for my place 12 floors up. I have traded imn my fender stacks for micro waves and dishwashers and a big t.V. Sigh. I find No mud. this is a clean little amp. I like the channels and the fact i can run my mike thru it and stay about 8 feet away without feedback. This amp is so clean, vanillia comes to mind. It has plenty of controls, but they lead to distortion. Infact, the only way I can get different sounds is by having my Daddy-o intercede!! this old solid statere from the late golden years will have to do.

Sound Quality: 5
I ripped a Fernandaes apart and turned it into a fender standard (NOT squire!!!!!!!!!!!).
see abouve for most...I use it for writing and occasionally ripping a couple of riffs through the walls. The ol' gal has a lot of power.

Reliability: 8
I would rate it 10, but it faded on me the other day...oh ohhh!

Customer Support: N/A
never delt with them, but they can send me a fre amp!

Overall Rating: 3
30 years
A little fender or yamaha....
I love I have it, I hate the new fade. (the "presance" is great, too).
nothing else to say

Submitted by Vaughan at 05/02/2004 03:55

[Nelskie]

Ah yes - nothing says clean like "vanillia". I wonder if that's the same thing as "vanilla", though one could assume that its probably much cleaner. Indeed, HC is a great resource, but as with anything, you have to take some of the reviews with a grain of salt, and let your fingers / ears be the real judge.

I must also say your J50 is a fine looking amp. And that pull-gain knob doesn't look quite so "hairy" in person, either.

[Spudman***]

yu no, if Harmony Central ever put is a spells checker wer gonna luze all that lushus humer.

[SuperSwede]

So are HC up for sale?

[r_a_smith3530]

So are HC up for sale?

SS, from what I heard, it's a done deal already! Just the ink isn't dry yet.

[SuperSwede]

I really hope that they dont change too much, and for gods sake dont include a spelling check.

[SuperSwede]

Sweet jesus.. I´ve been reading Yamaha JX reviews again.. Here is a JX40 review that really explains more about these amazing screaming solo amps!

Product: Yamaha JX40 112 Combo
Price Paid: USD 100
Submitted 08/21/2007 at 03:03am by BlueTim

Features : 8
I`ll buy this amp late 80`s (600mk = 100 eur), when it was one year old. So...amp was made -81 or -82.
Amp has two channel and headphone jack. I used amp for training, recording, some jam-sessions and few gigs.
In gigs you haven??t easy way changed distr./clean sound, that??s why amp has some limited use on stage.

Sound Quality : 9
Clean is little bit thin or weak and not so bright for gigs. For recording and training it works good enough.
Amp has great distrotion and when use with some good pedal (Ibanez tubescream), it has very good sound. I find some recordings quite good distr. sound then back to the 80`s.
Amp does the job on gigs, but then you have use microphone and PA-system. Alone amp is too weak for pop/rock.

Reliability : 8
Amp was couple years in store and doesn??t work at all, when I try it. But local music store has good worker who repair the amp quite minium cost.
Potentiometer must use electric spray...

But amp has work over twenty years guite well.

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 8
I sold amp little time ago. It has good for training and maybe(?) recording, but nowdays you can get much better amp for rec.
Nowdays amp has vintage-model-like and does the job also for little gigs in right kind music.

[Spudman***]

Apparently a non native English speaker...or maybe from the southern bayou country of the USA.

[warren0728]

another great review....as with most sequals...the first was the best...but this one is pretty good too!

ww

[Justaguyin_nc]

Sweet jesus.. I´ve been reading Yamaha JX reviews again.. Here is a JX40 review that really explains more about these amazing screaming solo amps!

Product: Yamaha JX40 112 Combo
Price Paid: USD 100
Submitted 08/21/2007 at 03:03am by BlueTim

Features : 8
I`ll buy this amp late 80`s (600mk = 100 eur), when it was one year old. So...amp was made -81 or -82.
Amp has two channel and headphone jack. I used amp for training, recording, some jam-sessions and few gigs.
In gigs you haven??t easy way changed distr./clean sound, that??s why amp has some limited use on stage.

Sound Quality : 9
Clean is little bit thin or weak and not so bright for gigs. For recording and training it works good enough.
Amp has great distrotion and when use with some good pedal (Ibanez tubescream), it has very good sound. I find some recordings quite good distr. sound then back to the 80`s.
Amp does the job on gigs, but then you have use microphone and PA-system. Alone amp is too weak for pop/rock.

Reliability : 8
Amp was couple years in store and doesn??t work at all, when I try it. But local music store has good worker who repair the amp quite minium cost.
Potentiometer must use electric spray...

But amp has work over twenty years guite well.

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 8
I sold amp little time ago. It has good for training and maybe(?) recording, but nowdays you can get much better amp for rec.
Nowdays amp has vintage-model-like and does the job also for little gigs in right kind music.

What..What..I understanded him perfectly! I didn't cee watt the big deel is all abut! southern or nut!

u guys are crul!!

[luvmyshiner]

Oh man! I remember y'all talking about this thread, but I've never read it before. I laughed so hard I think I peed myself.

[Robert****]

This thread is a classic. I hereby nominate it to the top 10 of all threads on the Fret!

[Jimi75]

This is so funny and weird at the same time!
Really a classic!

[ShortBuSX]

When I am looking for music gear I often check what people say on Harmony Central. I found this old Yamaha solid state amp, and from the review below I just KNOW that I am going to like it...


Sound Quality: 3
No distortion peddles eather the speaker just bottoms out.

Flower peddles offer the worst kinda distortion on just about any kinda amph!:
Of course youll get no screaming solos.

[Jimi75]

Don't SCREAM for me Argentina.....:

[duhvoodooman***]

"I am nineteen and I feel that by the time I'm twentyfive I will be a damn good guitar player."

I hope he's right. He'll need some way to earn a decent living, and I'd venture to guess that journalist or English teacher are not viable career options....

[SuperSwede]

Perhaps membership in this fancy fret.net club would only be granted those that read this thread.

This thread is for me the essence of the forum distilled into a few short lines.