Best thing I did for clean headroom on a VJ
I put a NOS (these are my secret weapon tubes) AC Delco....yes the car parts maker.... 12AT7 in the preamp spot, and a Reissue Tung sol in the pwr section....even with my blues breaker strat(I finally named her Izabella ) which has some pretty hot pups, it only has a tiny fraction of breakup with this little amp turned all the way up...and your pick attack has to be in the SRV style of trying to rip the guitar off the straps. This makes it the perfect amp to record with and the most pedal friendly VJ I own...I now have 6 of them somehow Ive grown addicted to them.
Anyways I just thought I would give the rest of the fretters the tools to get a completely clean VJ.......
Josh.
Guitars: Epiphone Special 2 LP modded with a SD Pearly Gates and a SD Alnico 2 flat strat pro.300K pots.Tone pros Brass Stop tailpiece.Dunlop frets dressed to .031,LSR roller nut, Spezel custom stainless steel locking tuners. Satin finished neck.Fender MIM 50's strat modded with LSR roller nut, graph tech string tree,sperzel satin chrome locking tuners, graph tech saddles,300K push pull volume for "neck on pup" and 200K tone pots.PUPS:Neck seymore duncan QP single coil for strat. Middle: Seymour Duncan JB Jr with coil tap (so actually a 9 way tone selection). Bridge: Same as neck.Amps/Cabs.2 Epi Valve Jr's, Peavey Delta Blues 1x15. Randall RG200es,Guitar research 4x8 cab loaded W/celestion super 8's and rewired for two-2x8 operation.Marshall 4x12 slant lead cab,Johnson cab 1x12.