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Peavey JSX Head

Tube Guitar Amp Head from Peavey belonging to the JSX series

Green_Pintade Green_Pintade
Published on 03/27/09 at 14:24
The beast is a head lamps:

- 120W (no switch "half power" as the combo, hlas: it is because of this tiny dtail I am not 10/10; o)
- Section power: EL34, but can be configured in 6L6 (the switch has rear) through re-rglage of bias
- 3 channels, a real legalization per channel, too rare these days for me.
- Active EQ on each channel, min max it goes from-12dB +12 dB for the frquence (!)
- No rverbe, no effects (thank you)
- Noise gate for channels 2 & 3
- 2 inputs: low gain / hi gain (aie aie in hi gain ... Read more: o)

At the rear:
- Knobs levels of input and output for the effects loop
- Switch EL34 / 6L6
- 4/8/16 ohm switch to impdance: increasing the number of configurations with baffles
- Access Point for the bias rglage

The head comes with a footswitch for channel select, and enable / disable the effects loop.

Come on, I put 8 / 10 for no switch "half power": no one is perfect, o)

More

UTILIZATION

- Configuration: ben ... is an amp, you know. One branch is heated, it turns on, and ... let&#39;s rock & roll!

- I think we can easily obtain a good sound, active legalization has much to do, you get quick sounds DIFFERENT trs, and it&#39;s not as hard as Mesa, for example. This same legalization compensates for the other characters of the string lments: guitars, speakers, ...

- I did not consult the manual (plug and play: o)

SOUNDS

- Given the number of amps I tried, yes, it is done all my style of music like funk (clear sound: o), blues and rock (crunch), the metal ( distortion): 3 channels is really the foot.

- Sound: easy, I tried a bunch in combos, heads or racks ... Carvin, Mesa, ENGL, Randall, Fender, Marshall (yes), Line 6, Bogner (the good I can not afford) I have rarely found as versatile, there&#39;s not much to say: says it all. The grain I was looking, clear sound trs (slamming, round, everything is there) unsaturated, and yet it&#39;s not for lack of trying o). As for the crunch, it would be even necessary to go into channel 3: the rate of distortion is just-tru-mons them. A gain = 10, it&#39;s pretty hard AGRER (breath, feedback, etc.). Finally, the channel 3 all the extravagances ... legalization by a typical (bass and treble boosts, a medium mini) ad-Chira ... eardrums o). It dpend normment of baffles, all fawns. Finally I tried on the 4 * 12 Mesa, teuf teuf excuse the lack ...

- Guitar playing: see my profile. My 2 main guitars are a Vigier Excalibur Special, DM pickups and an Ibanez SZ520 with micro SD up. The guitars are quite diffrent, yet the sound of the amp suits me quite. Note that for quite some time now I&#39;m only in the branch between "HiGain" pataaaaate, grain, dynamic ...

- I really clean the clear trs, trs "crystalline" as they say, given the saturation drive Tage derrire power there. Crunches and distos are great, warm, round, fat, but trash .. y &#39;for every taste, really.

On this point, I put a 10/10 because I am completely satisfied in my search of "beautiful" sound.

OVERALL OPINION

- I use it for over a year, I&#39;m still happy. Acouphnes yet but will be soon!

- What really j&#39;apprcie above all is the versatile and the "intelligibilitquot; of what comes out of the cabinet (Framus 2 * 12" Vintage 30 in this case) j &#39; would like to try a nice Strato Branchel in to see what was given in clean / crunch!

- Most Gnant for me is the lack of switch "half power" as I said above dj; 110W tural measures on a passive load, a shoot.

- Report Q / P: excellent

- Finally, a purchase that I do not regret and I would do without hsitation, eyes closed and leaves wide open: o)))

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EDIT March 3, 2008:
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I sell the killings because 1) no longer support my vertbres 2) I change my musical style, so less need to gain ... and 3) I am considering the one dpart abroad. If intresss, appointment announcements in the section AF.

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EDIT March 27 2008:
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Ben is the head is sold, &#39;nif&#39; nif .. we will have good memories. In any case I think it&#39;s in good hands, hello Jean-Michel) And I will not repeat everything I have said above: this one s head MRIT &#39; linger there .. and that attached to it!