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Topic: Blues Junior Amp Mods? |
Mike Greenberg
From:
Nashville, TN
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Posted 17 Feb 2010 11:05 am |
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First off, I'd like to thank everybody for their responses to my "small amps?" post -- lots of great information and I've fortunately been able to try some of the suggestions.
Another question: in the spirit of "small", I'm going to modify my old (1998?) Fender Blues Junior to hopefully make it at least half decent for steel. I've been on the BillM website (http://home.comcast.net/~machrone/bluesjunior.htm) checking out all the mods the he offers.
I was wondering: who has modified a Blues Junior to work well with their PSG? Nice clean tone? Better bass? No more (or at least less) "honk" in the midrange? What's worked for you?
Thanks
--Mike |
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Marc Jenkins
From:
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 17 Feb 2010 11:11 am
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Mike, I have a Blues Jr with some of the BillM mods. I had the power supply mod, midrange mod, and had a bias pot added. I also put a Weber 12F150 50 watt speaker in. It is definitely clean enough for low volume gigs and fine for rehearsals. Honestly, the speaker made the biggest difference. You can't really get a ton of low end, and the cab is so small.
If I did it again, I'd add the Twin EQ mod. Or just buy an old Princeton Reverb. Or build a clone (which I AM doing, starting next week). |
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Garry Vanderlinde
From:
CA
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Posted 18 Feb 2010 9:59 am
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| I've got one of the early Blues Jr's (1993) and have had the Tone Stack, Bias, Reverb, Midrange, 12Ax7 tube switch mods all done to it. It was very exciting to do all these and the amp sounds great when used with my 6-8 string non-pedal guitars. But it can't handle my D-10 Emmons at any decent volume without distorting. I just think it doesn't have enough watts. For PSG I'd go with the little Peavey 112. |
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