Jet City Amplification

The Jet City JCA22h is an excellent response to player needs. The original JCA20h offered wonderful value by taking soldano designed circuits and sourcing less expensive components to build them. The JCA22h adds a second channel that can be foot switched between. The two channels share a global EQ and presence control but have separate preamp gain controls as well as separate master volumes. A Tube buffered effects loop is present. A duo of el84's power the amp and give it a great tone. I must say, I've been a fan of the "333" branding on the grill of the amp. The sounds make it easy to forgive the aesthetics though. UTILIZATION The additional channel makes it easy to set up rhythm and lead sounds independent of one another. The responsiveness of the amp to your guitar's volume makes it even more versatile. You could easily go from very clean sounds to various degrees of gain without much footwork involved. The construction seems plenty solid. I've never had the chance to gig the Jet City but it seems plenty loud enough for that sort of environment. SOUNDS I played through the Jet City JCA22h with a Gibson Tweedy SG. Mesa 4x12. No effects. The cleans are very pretty. The amp could benefit from time based effects (reverb and delay) but overall the sounds are plenty useable, leaps and bounds greater than the pre-2010 rectifier amps for example. The mid gain sounds are very soldano-like. Much like the Astroverb I played previously, the amp can cop Thin Lizzy gain tones perfectly. The high gain sounds are no slouch but one might feel inclined to boost the amp. I personally feel the amp is fully capable for heavier styles, but the amp is lacking the low end that some metal players might expect. OVERALL OPINION The Jet City JCA22h is a greatly versatile, inexpensive amp that offers sounds that you typically would not see from an amp in the sub $1000 price point. The additional channel makes the amp more gig-friendly. My only complaint is the look of the amp, but the sound quality outweigh this shortcoming greatly. If you can, try out the soldano Astroverb-- A used model can be had for a few hundred more than the Jet city and might better satisfy those in the market for a low wattage head.

This is a 20watt all tube amp. It is a single channel amp with, gain, volume, reverb, bass, mids, and treble controls. The reverb is tube driven and very lush sounding. It’s a cool feature that’s very useful. The cabinet is actually plywood, not MDF, which is rare on cheap import amps. Overall the amp is surprisingly well built. I would have no worries when gigging Jet City amps. UTILIZATION This is a great sounding amp, no issues getting great quality tones. Having only one channel can be limiting but this amp is very dynamic. When you are running it full bore you can still clean it up really nicely but rolling off the volume and softening the dynamic of your pick attack. SOUNDS The tone is amazing. The clean tones are decent. Honestly if you're looking for pristine cleans this probably isn't the amp for you. The clean tones are very limited because the amp has little to no headroom. Like I said earlier, this amp does clean up nicely with rolling off the volume, but it never gets anywhere near pristine cleans. They still have a touch of dirt on them, which personally I like. But like I said, if you’re looking for an amp to do cleans you should look elsewhere. The crunch tones are phenomenal. They sit so nicely in a band mix. They have a Marshally flair but definitely have their own thing going on. They are clean up pretty nice by just rolling off the volume knob. And if you through a boost in front of it it’s amazing. It gets a really nice high gain sound. If you can't tell, I love this amp. My biggest complaint about the amp is that modulation pedals don't sound great in front of the amp. But otherwise is awesome. OVERALL OPINION This is hands down the best little combo amp I've ever played through. The crunch is amazing and the cleans are usable. Its an insane value at the price. I highly recommend it.

Jet City is a good introduction into quality sounding guitar amplification. These amp have a good sound to them but they are cheaply made over in China. That being my only beef with this company. Other than that these amps alone no matter where they are made sound fantastic. This is more of the Soldano Hot Rod 50 amp. It has two channel one for normal which would be a clean channel and also gets some crunchy tones to it. The next channel would be the lead or overdrive channel. This is where things heat up tone wise. You get a tube buffered serial effects lops which is nice and an added foot switch to control and jump between the two channels. UTILIZATION Features Amp Head Channels: Normal and Overdrive, footswitchable with included footswitch Controls: Normal and Overdrive Preamps, Bass, Middle, Treble, Normal and Overdrive Masters, Presence Effects Loop: Tube buffered serial Footswitch: Overdrive channel footswitch, included. Tubes: 5 x 12AX7 Preamp / 2 x 6L6 Power Cabinetry: Multi-ply, void-free hardwood Chassis: 16-gauge, cold-rolled steel Output Power: 50W into 16 ohm or 2 x 8ohm speaker outputs Input Power: Multi-tapped power transformer at 100v/120v/220v/240v and standard IEC connector Dimensions: 9-1/2" x 9-1/2″ x 25″ Weight: 40lb. SOUNDS This amp sounds so hauntingly familiar to the sounds of a Soldano SLO. I mean it doesn't have all the same features as the Soldano SLO but the basic part of the tone is there. That juicy thick 80's voiced overdrive that can be heard on countless albums over the years. I love the way the lead /overdrive channel takes flight when you give it some preamp gain juice. This thing will cranky out some nice chugging type thick fat distortion tones. OVERALL OPINION At new these amps come in right at around $499. Not a bad price for a 50 watt head that has two channels. This is a great amp for people looking to get a high gain amp and don't want to break the bank to do it. I would recommend this amp to anyone who needs to stay under or right around $500 and need a good working amp for high gain tones.

When I went looking for a lightweight, portable speaker cabinet that will get me through small-to-medium sized club gigs I needed look no further than Soldano's new Jet City line. They hooked me up with a JCA24S--their basic 2 x 12 closed-back, rear-loaded cabinets with two Jet-City branded Eminence speakers on board. The speakers sound closest to the Eminence Legend 1258 with a nice bite, tight lows, and nice highs without being shrill. Although the cabinet does not come with casters they are an option, but this is the first 2 x 12 where I felt it didn't really need casters because the cabinet is not only well-built but light enough to carry with the attached handle. Another bonus feature of the JCA24S is the mono/stereo speaker jack. This means you can run stereo power or two different heads into each side of the cabinet. Each speaker is rated at 70 Watts for a total 140 Watt cabinet. The stereo separation in the cabinet is great and works well (8 ohms per side with a slide-select switch). The beauty in this cabinet lies in several factors: first of all the tone--it can go from warm jazzy cleans to good old rock 'n roll to full thrash metal depending on which head you attach to it. Also, rated at 140 watts it will easily handle most contemporary amp heads with relative ease and make them sound great. Second, the tone doesn't come at the expense of brutally heavy magnets as with some other speakers. This cabinet is light enough that you can carry it around without casters and not destroy your back. And one of the features I love about this cabinet is that it works both horizontally or vertically. Horizontally, you can put a JCA100H, JCA100HDM, JCA50H, or any other full-sized head on top and have a great quarter-stack. For smaller gigs with smaller stages, you can turn the JCA24S vertically and put a JCA20H or JCA22H on top and put the amp controls easily within your reach. Make no mistake, this cabinet can dish it out AND take it. I recently played a club gig with only the JCA22H and the JCA24S and was STILL louder than the club could handle. This isn't a cabinet that requires any magic to sound good. So far I've yet to plug something into this cabinet that didn't sound great. The prices on these cabinets are coming down somewhat and the price-to-value ratio on this cabinet just can't be beat. Jet City makes a 24S+ model that includes an on-board D.I. that allows you to run directly to the board as well. Jet City is really on to something, delivering high-quality products at prices working musicians can afford. I would not hesitate to purchase another Jet City cabinet, and come to think of it, just might!

Jet city amplification is sort of a spin off from the Soldano amplification builders. Andy Marshall designed this amp and his license by THD electronics. The pico valve head os low wattage and an extremely versatile tone machine. This amp features some of the best and newest technology that amplifiers have to offer. It has 5 W of power and you can also change the power tubes. You can switch power tubes in out with re-biasing, depending on your flavor and taste of different power tubes. The five watts can be cut in half with a half power switch on the front chassis panel. This will give you better control volume levels when playing any cramps base where you have noise issues involved. UTILIZATION Features THD's topology: swap the power tube without the need to re-bias 5 watts 1/2-power mode Full tone stack: treble, middle, and bass controls Preamp and master volume controls Housed in THD's signature steel cage design SOUNDS The tone of this aunt although 5 W still packs a huge game punch. It has a full tone stack of trouble middle and base controls. This amp although only 5 W has enough game to satisfy most practicing situations. You can even roll down much of the pregame to clean falling levels. Even with the pulling down under guitars volume you can achieve a good solid bluesy clean tone. This amp is housed and licensed by THD which looks like a little lunch box. It is a small and compact amp which is inconvenient for most players. It also has a bright switch an tight switch to add some of the higher frequencies to be up at cut through some of the cloudy distortion to which some amplifiers can half. What is interesting about this amp is where most amplifiers control knobs go all the way to 10 and even 11 sometimes, this one only goes to nine. OVERALL OPINION These amps are fairly inexpensive and they come in at the new price of around $299. That is a very good price for a high quality amplifier. These amps can be found online and in most guitar shop retailers. These are some of the most versatile and inexpensive amps in this price point that you can find. I highly recommend this and if you're looking for a low wattage low convenience and easy price amplifier.

The Jet City JCA20H and its matching cab. First some specs: • Controls: Preamp, Bass, Middle, Treble, Master, Presence • Tubes: 3x 12AX7 Preamp / 2x EL84 Power • Rectifier: Solid State • Output Power: 20W into 16 ohm or 2x 8 ohm speaker outputs So as you can see, pretty standard low wattage tube amp. Very simple looking control lay out easy to read and move the knobs. It is pretty classy looking in the blueish purple tolex and very easy to move and carry around as it was very light. UTILIZATION It was simple and easy, very simple TMB lay out. Very much a plug and play amp. So if you like buttons and knobs this might not be for you. SOUNDS I played it through two guitars. A PRS SE Single-Cut and a Fender Buddy Guy Stratocaster. I plugged in the PRS first. Set everything to noon (except the master which was about 11’oclock). Instant Classic Rock grind ala AC/DC. It was very bright and present with lots of clarity. I was very impressed. I inched up the gain to about 3’oclock. Where it started getting into metal territory (don’t expect super saturated tones, when I say metal I mean Stuff like Metallica, Megadeth, and Iron Maiden). After about 4’clock on the gain it became muddy and undefined, but it still did a great job of getting some heavy tones and could really benefit from a boost like a Tubscreamer or SD-1. I played around some more with the EQ and found it to be very responsive all the way through the sweep of the pot on the EQ. with the middle and treble upped and the bass brought down a little it did a great Van Halen impression and I was also able to coax some great fluid lead tones ala Jerry Cantrell out of it. I then plugged in the Strat and proceeded to start all over again. With the Strat I found it to be much too bright for my taste. Although I was able to get some nice blues tones with the neck pickup. It did some nice Clapton impressions with the gain around 11 o’clock. I found that it didn’t do any clean tones well even with the strat and the mids scooped a little. It wasn’t horrible cleans, usable maybe but definitely not where it shone its best. I wouldn’t suggest this amp for guys playing any big shows because even with the master at 11’oclock it was barely above loud talking OVERALL OPINION Overall I highly recommend this amp for guys looking for a small (let me stress. Very small) gigging amp or bedroom practice and I am sure that with a tube change and a nice cab it’d be a great recording amp. The JCA20H is listed on musiciansfriend.com for $349.00 which I think is a smokin’ deal for such a great little amp. If you are looking for great classic rock up through 80s thrash (with a boost) this is your amp. Overall I give this an 8/10

Jet city amplification is a no nonsense versatile and budget friendly amplifier. They've taken the philosophy from Soldano has to keep it very simple. They have excelled in making some of the most budget friendly and inexpensive amplifiers in the market today. This is a two channel amplifier that takes a lot of inspiration from the Soldano amplifier tone. UTILIZATION Channels: normal and overdrive, footswitchable with included footswitch Controls: normal and overdrive preamps, bass, middle, treble, normal and overdrive masters, presence Effects loop: tube buffered Footswitch: overdrive channel footswitch, included. Tubes: 5x 12AX7 preamp / 4x 6L6 power Cabinetry: multi-ply, void-free hardwood Chassis: 16 gauge, cold-rolled steel Output Power: 100W into 16 Ohm or two 8 Ohm speaker outputs Input Power: multi-tapped power transformer at 100V/120V/220V/240V and standard IEC connector DIMS SOUNDS If you like the tone of the Soldano SLO and you will like the tone of this jet city hundred watt amplifier. The first channel is a good shiny shimmering clean that can get a sparkling tone. The second channel is a thick and raunchy distortion tone. If you like a good 80s tone then you will be set with this amplifier. If you like in new modern metal tone then you can get that with just a quick shift at the control knobs. I really like the sound of this amplifier with the good humbucker installed pick up guitar. I like the tone of the good humbucker with this sick raunchy distortion that this amplifier provides. With the two buffer the effects loop I like to put in some chorus and delay effects mixing with the high gain Soldano overdrive. OVERALL OPINION These amplifiers are some of the most budget friendly consumerist amplifiers on the market today. You can find these amplifiers at new for the price of $699. That is an excellent price for excellent sounding guitar amplifier. I would highly recommend this amplifier to anyone who wants a good solid 100 watt and inexpensive amplifier. This is a no-frills no nonsense amp with no trick marketing tools to back it.