good clean amps for jazz guitar

[Henry Mars]

I don't know .. I use a Traynor TCV40WR or occasionally a VOX modeling amp and they sound fine to me. I also like Galen Kruger for jazz.

[Sailor]

LOVE my Polytone minbrute...inexpensive, LOUD, clean, quiet....

Sailor

[TieDyedDevil]

Sorry TDD, I don't know why you refer to me in this post, I never made any comment in this thread, were you thinking of someone else?

/R

No, but I got my threads crossed when replying. Somehow I started to reply to the "sweet spot" thread here and didn't notice the misattribution when I moved the text.

[holgit]

I played the AER Compact 60 II a lot of times in a jazzguitar-duo. Wonderful clear and warm tone. I think here in germany the AER is the "standard". In february I joined a jam-workshop weekend with 12 guitarists. 6 members came along with the AER-bag on their shoulders.

But this amp is not cheap. Here I have to pay round 850 Dollars. So I will lay aside some money to buy this amp in few months.

[BigDaddyLoveHandles]

The Fender Jazzmaster Ultralight is a nice all-in-one solution that combines Fender's take on amp modeling with built-in effects and a small, lightweight enclosure. It still sounds a bit boxy, but - like the other smaller SS amps - the sound will fit an ensemble just fine. I don't particularly care for that midrange-focussed sound for my own needs as a solo guitarist, but I can imagine it working quite well for many other styles.

Just a heads-up. I think Fender has discontinued the Jazzmaster Ultralight. At least, JHale's website says so. And while Fender's web site has the head, it doesn't have the cabinet -- looks like the cabinet went *poof* first. At stores on-line, it's harder to find the cabinet, too.

[GodinFan]

That cab deserved to disappear, IMHO. Sounded like a cereal box.

[BigDaddyLoveHandles]

Sound aside, I thought the magnetic locking was cool.

[corales]

Carvin Belair here...clean...loud....tubes(8)...2 speakers...vintage look

[Bertrand tB]

Next to my Roland Cube60 which I normally use for Jazz and study. I was noticed by this forum that the Vox modeller which I own and use in my rock band also is very suitable for Jazz. At the moment I'm studying through this amp and getting more and more pleased with it.

[corales]

Yes..the Roland cube60 is a good option...I use it in Blackface mode.is portable and loud

[cosmic gumbo]

You'd have to prove to me there is anything cleaner, louder, or more dependable than a Roland JC-120. Available new and used worldwide.

[Bertrand tB]

Si Corales, on the cube are the blackface and the JC mode very good options, on the Vox AD60 I use the boutique clean mode, which is clean but a bit warmer than the Roland, so this one is giving me a WOW feel too.

[murrayatuptown]

Hello:

I have a few books on tube guitar amps (Blencoe, Neumann, Keuhnel) to enlighten me on the distortion properties the rest of my vintage books always want to avoid. Beginning a 30 year procrastination of building some amps (40+ years as an industrial electronics tech so I won't electrocute myself).

I am starting to build some preamp stages to form my own opinions.

I think all the negative opinions about guitars driving 'hifi' amps sounding 'anemic' come from hardcore blues/rock people.

While there are plenty of tube amps jazz people like 'clean', and historically there is great satisfaction with Polytone solid state amps...this leads me to my question. (I have never tried an archtop with a hifi amp like a Williamson type (for example, Heath W4-AM...I have a couple on the fence to 'restore or modify drastically?').

Is the 'bias' against clean amps in other genres irrelevant to jazz guitar amplification?

Thanks

Murray

[Hammertone]

I laugh at your puny "good clean jazz" amps.

[murrayatuptown]

This morning I think I figured it out.

That tends to happen right after I ask a question. I forget about the formulating the question and the answers become easier to find.

[jim777]

I'm not thrilled with the weight, but my Boogie MarkIV combo does everything you could ask of it.

[rpjazzguitar]

I used to gig with a Boogie Mark III. Jazz standards. Quintet.

Once, a guy came out of the audience wanting to buy my entire rig. Not a joke. It was a Gibson L5S with a 57 classic into an old Yamaha FX box (not a floor thing, but a box I'd leave on top of the amp) and the Boogie.

He may have been drinking too much, but that rig did sound good.

There are two things wrong with the Boogie.

1. Although it sounded fantastic when dialed in, if the room filled up and I wanted, say, a little more treble, I'd have to adjust every knob on the amp. They interact that much.

2. The weight. If you put a full drink on top of it, the mass reaches a point where the amp will bend light around itself. At that point you can't see it and you have to be careful not to trip over it. You can't even find your drink. You can find the amp by following the cable from your guitar.

[Gitfiddler]

I used to gig with a Boogie Mark III. Jazz standards. Quintet.

Once, a guy came out of the audience wanting to buy my entire rig. Not a joke. It was a Gibson L5S with a 57 classic into an old Yamaha FX box (not a floor thing, but a box I'd leave on top of the amp) and the Boogie.

He may have been drinking too much, but that rig did sound good.

There are two things wrong with the Boogie.

1. Although it sounded fantastic when dialed in, if the room filled up and I wanted, say, a little more treble, I'd have to adjust every knob on the amp. They interact that much.

2. The weight. If you put a full drink on top of it, the mass reaches a point where the amp will bend light around itself. At that point you can't see it and you have to be careful not to trip over it. You can't even find your drink. You can find the amp by following the cable from your guitar.

Hilarious!

This explains why my sweet sounding Mark IV sits in a corner...at my home, most of the time. Truly a 'love/hate' relationship due to the tone-to-weight quotient. You'd think I learned after schlepping an Ampeg VT-22 around back in the day.

[lawson-stone]

I used to gig with a Boogie Mark III. Jazz standards. Quintet.

Once, a guy came out of the audience wanting to buy my entire rig. Not a joke. It was a Gibson L5S with a 57 classic into an old Yamaha FX box (not a floor thing, but a box I'd leave on top of the amp) and the Boogie.

He may have been drinking too much, but that rig did sound good.

There are two things wrong with the Boogie.

1. Although it sounded fantastic when dialed in, if the room filled up and I wanted, say, a little more treble, I'd have to adjust every knob on the amp. They interact that much.

2. The weight. If you put a full drink on top of it, the mass reaches a point where the amp will bend light around itself. At that point you can't see it and you have to be careful not to trip over it. You can't even find your drink. You can find the amp by following the cable from your guitar.

That explains why I can't find my Yamaha G100-210... nor can I find the cat...

[entresz]

I often gig with a 70s Peavey Session 400 - the 400 represents how many lbs it weighs, it also represents how many minutes it takes to get it in/out of the car.

It's still the best clean amp I have - it's voiced a bit like a Fender Twin but has less of a mid dip and more responsive EQ controls.

[TheWizard]

You'd have to prove to me there is anything cleaner, louder, or more dependable than a Roland JC-120. Available new and used worldwide.

Keyboard amps aside, there isn't. But then again 62 lbs isn't friendly on the back. Glad there's a JC-40!

[Average Joe]

You'd have to prove to me there is anything cleaner, louder, or more dependable than a Roland JC-120. Available new and used worldwide.

How do the smaller versions of the JC stack up? I remember hauling a JC-120 around in the late 80s and I'm not likely to do that again due to the weight and loudness of that thing. It did sound good though

[Fal Tarlow]

+1 for Evans, my is AE100 and it’s incredible amp.
Clean, small and strong. Just take a time and explore options of this magic box.