Trying to find the best amp for a Jazz Tone on my Telecaster!
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The never ending search for the Telecaster Jazz Tone is continued as we examine three different amps!
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I truly believe your capabilities will make any amp sound remarkable, I love your channel 👌👌
Thank you for your kind words!
They all sound great in your hands. Excellent playing!
Kind of you to say - thanks!
Killer damning jazz sounds, man!
I hate how CZcams's algorithm still sucks so much that it hadn't recommended your channel in my feed after all these years online, and I found it while searching for title keywords instead of relativity and your music ...✌️🔥
Just when I was going to give up my teles, your vids popped up and gave me new inspiration!!! Thank you for your playing!!!
Glad I could help!
The Roland Cube and the Peavey both sound terrific. Especially for the price!
Agreed!
The Katana (also by Roland) is very common second hand these days. Have you compared one of them with the Cube?
@@rsmallfield I haven't.
Really enjoyed your playing and the review ! Thank you for sharing ! New subscriber !
Very kind of you thanks!
Great to hear Louis Stewart getting a mention. He was a fine player.
Indeed
Saw him live several times in the early 80s. Just like Rory Gallagher he never played less than 3 hours a night and they both had a similar no frills approach.
3.20 Holy smokes thats the sweetest jazz tone EVER.
Thanks, Jamie ! I enjoyed the bluesy riffs using some classic Joe Pass moves and a sweet
treatment of "'round Midnight." I would give the nod to the Cube !
Cool, thanks!
I had the older 15W Cube (which I loved) and then the newer Cube like yours- It had a noticeable hiss that I couldn’t dial out, not what I wanted for low volume practice, so I sold it on. The Henriksen Bud 6 has none of the hiss, and it handles everything I plug into it. Teles especially.
I love the sound of my Vox Clubman 60 with my Jet telecaster (as well as with my archtop, for which it is designed). The reverb's not bad too!
I’ve heard good things about Jets
@@jamieholroydguitar I love mine. It plays extremely smoothly, needed no setup, the tuning is incredibly stable, and it has a great range of sounds. Only drawback: bl**dy heavy, but that gives it lots of sustain.
Roland Jazz Chorus or a Quilter for solid state amps doing Jazz tones. Fender Princeton, Super Reverb, Vibrolux or a Twin Reverb for Tube Jazz tones.
I bought a Polytone Mini-Brute just yesterday.
Also, I think a Fender Twin or Bassman sounds great. To get that tone in a smaller package, the Quilter amps seem great.
Congrats! Great amps.
They do all sound good. A bit less low end on the Roland, but it sounds mellow and focused, definitely useable imo. Thanks! I have a Quilter 101, going through a Cannabis Rex 12" speaker. Gives a great clean tone. And super light. Thumbs up on the alnico 2 pickup also. Love those!
I know what you mean about the low end in the Roland. Everyone keeps telling me how good Quilters are.
I have two cube amps they are good, the Katana 50 is a little better has more sensitivity and when you dig in it acts more like a valve. It really does have a lot to do with how you set the amp up and your technique. Reasonable gear and the rest is your ears and your hands.
Thanks for sharing!
Mostly a Jazz listener here - I thought the first, small 8” amp sounded the best. Most reminiscent of old recordings or live footage where every note is clear as a bell with a hint of aggression. Not so much of that distracting woof down there.
Thanks yes I’ve heard a lot of players like to use 8” amps for recording for that reason
I too hate it when there’s a woof down there 😂
Jamie, the best amp for a Jazz tone for your Telecaster seems to be any amp that you plug your Telecaster into. 👍
Aw. I was looking forward to the MusicMan that you showed in the thumbnail photo.
Sorry - sold it about a year ago! Cool amps for regularly gigging musicians but they’re also heavy
I own many jazz amps, but my preferred for home use is definitely my Kustom 12 A. Try it!
I remember trying Kustom amps about 20 years ago and been impressed
Best clean sound I personally ever heard out of a solid state amp was a Blues Cube Hot that I owned. That being said, l have not had the pleasure of trying a Quilter or Henriksen as yet.
I have the Quilter micropro mach 2 and the 101 and 202 quilter head units. It doesn't soothe my itch for a great jazz tone. Play one first. I have never seen the Henriksen in my area.
I think they all sound good for Jazz. Especially with your exquisite playing. I had however huge problems to get a decent Jazz tone out of my Polytone Mini Brute I. The treble is ear piercing. I have to roll it back to almost 0 and the bass up to 8. If I add middle it sounds even worse. I use the dark channel. To get a decent tone I also roll back the treble on the guitar to around 8. My Cube 60 however sound brilliant; and warmer than the Polytone. . But here also I have to get the treble down quite far.
Thank you for the kind words. I think they’re both great amps
I enjoy your playing. On CZcams, all the amps sounded very similar and usable, clean and balanced, but a little stiff, like solid state amps tend to be. In my 60 years of playing just about every kind of amp you can imagine, my personal favorite is the Fender Princeton Reverb. I hope you will try one, I bet you would love it. . . . . . . .
Thanks! Yes Princeton’s are nice but not as loud as Blues Juniors
I had a Princeton for decades. Now i have the Princeton Tonemaster. Sounds the same and has a direct out.
@@mannoplanet Cool. The Princeton has such a friendly sound. . . .
Would like you to play through a Fender Champ, with your Tele!!!!
...and it's very light to carry!
Great Job Man Thankyou
Peavey.it's Wonderful Sound.❤❤❤❤❤
Glad you like it!
Excellent video - very refreshing to hear clean sounds only. As a jazz player myself, I'm pretty fed up with all the other amp and guitar reviews having almost exclusively distorted/overdriven sounds. I wonder what you feel about the Supro Delta King 12? It's a lightweight tube amp with great clean sounds. Thanks again for a great review, I love your guitar tone and your playing.
Thank you! I agree that it can be hard to find some reviews with clean sounds. I’ve heard that Supros are great but haven’t tried them personally
The newer Cubes - in my experience- all had unbearable hiss at gig levels. I have never found a closed back amp that does not sound “ nasal” to my ears. Unfortunately the only amp i have found golden- is a twin. Which is… large. I am hoping the upcoming g release of a tone master Bassman might be it. Great demonstration and playing. Ty.
Thanks!
@@jamieholroydguitar 🤙
Roland Micro Amp's still sound great.
Polytone nailed it!
Used a Roland Bolt 60W for years in a "Swingband" ... couldn't afford the Jazz Chorus 120W!
Quilter is worth the money.
I wish ...
Great sound!
Thank you!
Henriksen Bud 100%
Henricksen is by far the best jazz amp today
They are good!
First try a Henriksen, Mark World or a Milkman amp! Before you make a decision?!
Or what about a Quilter amp?!
Are the strings flatwounds?
No, just very old round wounds!!
Jamie, I'm a beginner. Well, I can play a little bit, but not anything close to jazz. I can't tell a huge difference between the amps, I'm sure due to my inexperience. I'm upgrading from a nylon string. Would you recommend getting an expensive (for me) guitar and a smaller amp, or a cheaper guitar and nicer amp? If I go for an expensive guitar, I'm thinking of getting a road worn telecaster, I love the look and feel. But if I get a cheaper guitar, I'll probably get a Squier telecaster. Thank you for any advice you might have.
Sort of related question, which makes the most difference to getting a jazz sound... the guitar, or the amp?
Good question and a bit of chicken and egg argument. For playing general guitar styles you’re always better getting a quality amp. However for jazz the cheap amps also sound great at home so I’d get a nice guitar. The early road worns are the best but most of the classic reissue mex/Jap Teles are nice, especially if you upgrade the pots and pickups.
Mambo 10 wedge mate?
Solid amps! I used to have an 8.
Don’t laugh but I can get some great sounds out of a humble Behringer HA-40R. It is a solid state 40w with a 10 inch speaker and real spring reverb. I can get different flavours using either the clean or overdrive (gain set very low) channels. It is about £80.
Sounds great!
Have you checked out any of the Quilter amps?
I love my Quilter SuperBlock US, especially the "57", and "65" tones. And if I was a gigging musician, and if I could play Jazz, I probably would have bought the 101 Reverb head.
Not yet but I hear good things
@@jamieholroydguitar I use a 101R and it's great. You will like them
@@jamieholroydguitar They are great amps, I use a 101R and love it to pieces
Interested in Fender Acoustic Amps?
What will be the settings on tat Cube-amp? And on the guitar?
Volume and tone rolled back a bit on the guitar. Most of the knobs on the cube are dailed back too
I find that almost any amp sounds good at low volume for jazz. The real test is when you have to turn up at a gig and then the harshness comes out.
Very true.
I like the micro cube better plus it has more quality sounds they quit making the first 2 generations so you can find them cheap . Great for practice and recording. Little small for stage but you could mike it and have zero noise running batteries. I have a deal against peavey they burned me on a guitar in 90s and then the owner made a deal with everyone right well when they came into work on Monday morning there’s a letter on the door telling sorry even though I just told everybody on TV that you were getting a raise and I was actually going to take care of my employees im firing everyone and selling my name to a china company this is after he got into a fight with Eddie van halen see Eddie figured out his deal and walked away from peavey and he claimed Eddie was hard to deal with but we all no peavey was a crook so that amp would have to sound like angels singing for me to touch it also parts for them are bad and break I’ve known people who fixed them only to last a week or so before they were on fire smoking again
What strings are you using. Great video!
Jamie is using an old set of 10s
Really? 10 round wound?
@@mongoharry Yes. They're really old having been on over two years, but I have new strings on two other guitars which I am not as into.
@@jamieholroydguitar Thank you for your response!
I have trouble handling strings that are 12 or higher, but I find their tone to be distinctly good. I have used the GHS Pat Martino set (15's, flat) on a Squier Strat. Its clean tones sounded incredible.
Polytone is the best from others.
Hard body sleeper believe it or not bruno mars will blo your hands and mind away warning! Don’t touch it or you’ll be dreaming about it i now have to rearrange everything to make the deal . That compound radius is perfect Ive never played a fender i had to own but these new necks ate game changers
Genuine naive question-why is good jazz guitar tone considered to be so dark?
I’m not into a clean bridge brittle tone- I get it that is really bright and grating-but why isn’t a nice warm neck single coil with some healthy midrange considered to be a good tone?
Is it because that’s what jazz guitarists sounded like in the 40s-60s and that is ‘standardized’?
Always play the "neck pickup" for Jazz, on Tele ... love THAT SOUND!
Good question - probably a topic for an entire video really. I consider players like Holdsworth to have amazing jazz tones and I don't think he ever used the neck pickup! Wes also occasionally used other pickup selections. There was many years of jazz guitarists who only would have access to guitars with neck humbuckers historically which might have something to do with it too. Although most jazz guitarists to my ears do have midrange warm tones - there's only a few which I would consider to have very dark sounds like Pat Martino, Jim Hall, and Chuck Wayne.
… I think, … skills are much over hardware !
Always
hope one day Roland release a jazz cube combo.
peavey classic and valveking also killing amps