I made the mistake of going into a local guitar store whose business model is mostly buying and selling used stuff. Often they have some classic Marshall stuff that I would love to have, but can't justify buying for various reasons of price, size and volume. I went in mostly to play a very old JMP half stack for the fun of it.
While I was there, I saw a used Jet City JCA2212C. I've been looking for the head version of this amp to try. I plugged in and loved it. Really great mid-80s hair metal sounds. My son needed a real amp; so, I used that as the excuse to buy it. It was just a little over $200 out the door.
I've heard some people displeased with the cleans out of it, but I have it set up right now with channel one being clean and channel two being the distortion channel. I have my son's Tube Screamer in front of it for lead boost. The cleans seem right up there with any hard rock clean guitar sound. The lead channel is awesome. I was jamming on some classic 80s stuff and loving the sound. At most I might eventually upgrade the tubes or put a better speaker in it. For now, it is awesome and I wish I had something this nice to start with when I was a kid.
While I was there, I saw a used Jet City JCA2212C. I've been looking for the head version of this amp to try. I plugged in and loved it. Really great mid-80s hair metal sounds. My son needed a real amp; so, I used that as the excuse to buy it. It was just a little over $200 out the door.
I've heard some people displeased with the cleans out of it, but I have it set up right now with channel one being clean and channel two being the distortion channel. I have my son's Tube Screamer in front of it for lead boost. The cleans seem right up there with any hard rock clean guitar sound. The lead channel is awesome. I was jamming on some classic 80s stuff and loving the sound. At most I might eventually upgrade the tubes or put a better speaker in it. For now, it is awesome and I wish I had something this nice to start with when I was a kid.
