Do you leave your Gibson (pickups) stock?

[oldane]

Now...the next question is, which amp???

That's yet another can of worms to open. :-)

[Lux]

Indeed!!!

Does anyone here have experience with the Carr amps? I've heard they are nice, and I like my tone in that sort of 'vintage' style where it is tube clean but also has a bit of that 'pushed' sound, aka, maybe on the verge or just breaking up a bit when you dig in...

Maybe something with a single "12...hmmm.

[Little Jay]

Lux, how about a Fender Tweed-style 5e3 with a Celestion Blue/Tayden 25 or 5e5 with a 15" Weber Blue Dog Alnico?

In your neck of the woods, check out Lazy J Amps: Lazy J Projects, Lazy J 20, Lazy J 40, Lazy J 80, Lazy J Cruiser, boutique amps and pedals .

Although I can not confirm it by personal exerience (never played those amps), according to what I read in fora and amp-books, if Lux is after a more scooped sound then a 5e3 is not the obvious choice; those tweeds and brown faces are said to have a lot of mids. A Black- or Silverface amp would seem the better choice. I love my Twin Reverb with my ES-333 with classic '57s. I even dial in more mids for a strong lead sound, I love the scooped sound for rhytm playing and comping, but to 'cut' thru the mix in a busy band, mids do the trick.

For me, I think L5 and Twin Reverb (all models) are a match made in heaven (no break up though...).

As has been said before: lowering your classic 57s away from the strings gives a much more open, less-mid heavy sound.

Lazy J amps supposedly do both tweedish and blackface-ish sounds (again: at least so I've read), so that might be a good recommendation!

[SamBooka]

I am with little jay... tweed tone stacks are mid heavy.

[LtKojak]

Since may 2011 I've been gigging with a three-year old Win XP laptop with Scuffham amps S-Gear in standalone mode, a Tascam US-122MKII Audio/MIDI card, a Behringer FCB-1010 Foot controller and a couple of Behringers B210Ds.

I love how everybody look down on me and tell me how I won't be able to even switch the system on, let alone perform with it, to the sound of their jaws dropping on the floor while performing and how they avoid to make eye contact with me after the gig is over.

[Jimmy Mack]

Good synopsis J-wcky. Generalizations exist for a reason, but really, you gotta try amps to find the one. You may end up with a SF VR if and when it kisses you! I think its a fun ride.

[Little Jay]

Played my usual jam session last night, too warm to drag my own amp around and decided to use the venue's Line6 amp (ok, not really your to go to jazz amp...) Big mistake... Classic 57s can be mid-heavy and muddy indeed, on certain amps. Couldn't get a good sound dialed in.. either too muddy with too much boomy low-mids or either to shrill, nothing in between. Luckily I don't have that problem on my Twin Reverb, neither on my Blues Deluxe (not a real Tweed amp of course, but more mid-heavy than the Twin) and not even on my AER Alpha (that I usually take for jazz sessions). But it proves once again that the combination of amp and pickup can be critical.

I guess there's no pickup that sounds good (to one's ears) on all amps....