"With this amph I get no screaming solos"

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...

Price Paid: US $100 used
Features: 4
The Jx50 looks like it was made in the seventies, or evan the sixties. The amph color is brown and gold nobs, not to classy looking for the 2000's and beyond. I play alot of jazz and blues stuff(steely dan and so on), and the amph does not cut it with the one twelve. I'm not in a band but Ive been playing for about six years.Has high imput and low imput. A pull gain volume and master control volume. Has four equalizing controls Treble-middle-bass_ and some nob called FAT that I have never seen on another amph. Has a very nice reverb though and play Marley tunes quite nice also a reverb foot switch plug in the back, but Ive never evan it. Now the speaker in the cabniet reads a diferent modle #JA3066 60 watt r.m.s. And the amph reads 75 Watts r.m.s. So since I bought it used the first speaker must have been replaced.

Sound Quality: 3
I play a Peavey preditor, wich is a strat look alike and a sound alike. I love the pick scrapes and sharp bends and the Jx50 fits my style of play to an extent. With this amph I get no screaming solos. My ground is pulled out of my edison cable so I get alot of scrathy sounds and every now and then I pick up radio station. The bass on the amph sucks bad. No distortion peddles eather the speaker just bottoms out. The pull gain just makes the amph sound worse too.

Reliability: 8
Besides dirt getting in the pull gain, 999999 times out of a 1000000 it will turn on.

Customer Support: N/A
I bought the amph used.

Overall Rating: 3
I am nineteen and I feel that by the time I'm twentyfive I will be a damn good guitar player. I would pay somebody steel my JX50 its a piece of crap.

Submitted by Dustin at 03/04/1999 15:09

LOL. I wonder what planet this guy was playing on. Such a good review...I want one too. GAS is never ending. LOL

I think the "With this amph I get no screaming solos" is a brilliant expression. I am going to use it as a benchmark for all future amp purchases!

SuperSwede said:

I think the "With this amph I get no screaming solos" is a brilliant expression.

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me too....classic!

would make a great signature!

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You think?

i laugh everytime i read that quote...

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There are several goodies still available!

"My ground is pulled out of my edison cable"

or perhaps the future classic?

"999999 times out of a 1000000 it will turn on."

i kinda like this one!

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Personally, I appreciate the fact that it "has high imput and low imput." Multiple imputs are very important you know!

BTW, can someone give a better description of scrathy sounds? Is that similar to the racket two cats make out in the alley?

Being that this review was authored back in 1999, Dustin must now be 25. I wonder if a) Dustin became a damn good guitar player, b) Dustin ever found someone to steel his amph, and finally, c) if Dustin ever learned English?

r_a_smith3530 said:

BTW, can someone give a better description of scrathy sounds?

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did you listen to my links for the marshall mini?....i am the king of scrathy!!

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Haha!

I just wonder why he need a "screaming solos amph" when he plays Steely Dan songs...

Three letters: L S D

Lmao.......

"Just by chance you crossed a diamond with the pearl, and turned it on the world, that's when turned you the world around" . . . .

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

Now that was funny. I know I usually have many mistakes, but that's merely because I type too fast, and I'm too lazy to go back and edit my errors, but unless this guy was trying to convey that he has some kind of strange lisp, with the constant 'amph', he is in dire need of some English lessons.

Out of interest, peoples' names on H C are usually links if they are members. If his was, I think we should e-mail him to find out if her ever did become the awesome guitar player he aspired to be.

regards

Matt

Unfortunately there is no link, but here you got the page where I found his amazing review,

http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data/Yamaha/JX50-1.html

warren0728 said:

did you listen to my links for the marshall mini?....i am the king of scrathy!!

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Now don't you go tryin' to lay none of that Boojie Woojie music on me Warren.

Reliability: 8
Besides dirt getting in the pull gain, 999999 times out of a 1000000 it will turn on.

To hell with gigging, or cabinet materials, hardware, or electronics. Brother, if there's anything that screams amp reliability to me, its a pull-gain knob turning on 999,999 times out of 1,000,0000 - even when subjected to dirt!!! I do, however, have to wonder if that statistic came from actual "field-testing". Also - when you're becoming one of the greatest guitarists of all time, doesn't this seem unnecessary? I mean, you could get in a lot of practice in the time it takes to pull a knob in and out 1,000,000 times.

LSD? Yeah, that'd be my guess, too.

Nelskie said:

I mean, you could get in a lot of practice in the time it takes to pull a knob in and out 1,000,000 times.

LSD? Yeah, that'd be my guess, too.

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Yes, LSD, taken with a heavy side of 'shrooms!

Nelskie, I think you are on to something here. He doesnt even LIKE the pull-gain!

"The pull gain just makes the amph sound worse too""The pull gain just makes the amph sound worse too"

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 . . . "

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!

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

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.

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

So are HC up for sale?

SuperSwede said:

So are HC up for sale?

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

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

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.

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

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

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