Lazy J

Gassage

hotpickups said:

Can you do a video with the veteran through the Lazy J @Gassage I'd love to hear it through a J40 if you still have it? If not the J20 even

Sure. It's harder edged than those.

hotpickups

Gassage said:

hotpickups said:

Can you do a video with the veteran through the Lazy J @Gassage I'd love to hear it through a J40 if you still have it? If not the J20 even

Sure. It's harder edged than those.

Ooooh I'll look forward to viewing/hearing that

Dominic

I know there's a lot of love for the Lazy J on here but having played one extensively for a year I have to say the Gartone Bluesman which is effectively the same is just better sounding and 'bigger' in every way to my ears.
If you get the chance try one.

hotpickups

Dominic said:

I know there's a lot of love for the Lazy J on here but having played one extensively for a year I have to say the Gartone Bluesman which is effectively the same is just better sounding and 'bigger' in every way to my ears.
If you get the chance try one.

I agree. Gartome are great amps. If only it had a VAC or similar fitted to it I'd have gone with one too 

dean111music

Spoke to Jessie 

Jessie said he made an a j40 for someone with smaller transformer so a bit like the j35 which is interesting...

his description of j20 v j20H is interesting 

The J20H is a higher powered version of the J20.
It uses the same circuit, but different transformers.
The result is that the J20H is slightly more powerful, with a quicker attack that helps the helps it cut through better in a louder band.
However, this comes at a price...the J20 has this beautiful, harmonically rich midrange.
Harmonics just ooze out of it.
This gives the sound a very complex character.
These harmonics are reduced in the J20H in favor of the fundamental. So you get this punchier response, almost slightly toward black face...
Most people prefer the J20...including Joe Walsh, who got to try them both, and bought the J20.
Both amps are in the same ballpark, but my personal desert island amp would be a J20.
SRV style players like the J20H...

I have to say this, the J20 is not a quiet amp...and depending on how loud you need to be (especially with the clean headroom) it might just tick the boxes.

dean111music

Dominic said:

I know there's a lot of love for the Lazy J on here but having played one extensively for a year I have to say the Gartone Bluesman which is effectively the same is just better sounding and 'bigger' in every way to my ears.
If you get the chance try one.

Interesting!

it uses 6v6 more traditionally curcuit.

Same cab size etc?
 
Breakup must be earlier

merlin

Are there any J20 owners here who have tried swapping out the 6L6s and the Gz34 rectifier for 6V6s and a 5Y3? 

crunchman

merlin said:

Are there any J20 owners here who have tried swapping out the 6L6s and the Gz34 rectifier for 6V6s and a 5Y3? 

Tried it briefly.  Preferred it with GZ34/6L6 and put it back.

hoops

I did it in my LJ20H and prefer it. Overdrives earlier which is what I was looking for with a lovely sag 

JohnPerry

Anyone seen the Lazy J stereo rig Nalle Colt posted on Facebook yesterday? Worth a look. 

breezytele

merlin said:

Are there any J20 owners here who have tried swapping out the 6L6s and the Gz34 rectifier for 6V6s and a 5Y3? 

I tried that as well,  but  preferred the 6L6/GZ34 set up

horsehead

JohnPerry said:

Anyone seen the Lazy J stereo rig Nalle Colt posted on Facebook yesterday? Worth a look. 

Was it Nalle, I thought someone just tagged him in?

robinbowes

horsehead said:

JohnPerry said:

Anyone seen the Lazy J stereo rig Nalle Colt posted on Facebook yesterday? Worth a look. 

Was it Nalle, I thought someone just tagged him in?

Yeah, it was him - it's a Swedish friend of his.

R.

smogfalls

also tried switching to 6v6's and 5Y3 on my Lazy J 20, but after a month or so of gigging, I went back to 6L6's for "feel" reasons more than tonal reasons I guess.