'Pedal Platform' amps ?

ThorpyFX · May 2016

For now, the jtm 45 is my favourite pedal platform..

ThePrettyDamned · May 2016

ThorpyFX;1071594" said:
For now, the jtm 45 is my favourite pedal platform..

Absolutely 100 percent agree.

Although a jtm45 is basically the best amp in the world for everything ever that's not modern metal...

I like them. A lot.

octatonic · May 2016

Mesa Blue Angel.

meltedbuzzbox · May 2016

You are all wrong

the answer is a Hiwatt

EdGrip · May 2016

I'd love to try/have a JTM45.

Besides Fenders, another pedal platform big name is Hiwatt. I'd love to have a go on one of the big Hiwatts too.

John_P · May 2016

Fender twin Had mine abut 15 years and keep coming back to using it - with some drive pedals you need to check how they fit with the bright switch but otherwise the perfect gigging amp if you use pedals.

builttospill · May 2016

Would the Princeton Reverb qualify for this? great with most pedals

fretmeister · May 2016

I had a JTM45 reissue. Was lovely but the lack of an fx loop annoyed me.

pintspiller · May 2016

of the amps i've had over the years, the best for overdrive/distortion pedals has been my sound city mkiv.

it can be a bit "hissy", but that's the mkiv thing. but i assume other hiwatt and hiwatt-inspired amps probably work too

p90fool · May 2016

builttospill said:

Would the Princeton Reverb qualify for this? great with most pedals

One of my favourite amps, but no, definitely not. They're awful with a lot of drive pedals and almost all fuzz pedals.

p90fool · May 2016

fretmeister said:

I had a JTM45 reissue. Was lovely but the lack of an fx loop annoyed me.

Curious, why would you need an FX loop on a non master volume amp?

BBBlues · May 2016

Another Carr Rambler vote here

tone1 · May 2016

My fav pedal platform was a Blackstar Artisan 15 Combo..it gave wonderful 3D sound.
Still don't know why I sold it

fretmeister · May 2016

p90fool;1071768" said:
fretmeister said:

I had a JTM45 reissue. Was lovely but the lack of an fx loop annoyed me.

Curious, why would you need an FX loop on a non master volume amp?

Because I cranked it

Gassage · May 2016

When we discussing Lazy J's the other day an interesting distinction occured to me.

A 'pedal platform' amp is an entirely different thing to an amp that takes pedals well.

To me a pedal platform shouts out Hiwatt, Twin, Tone King etc, whereas a LJ20, which is dirty, takes pedals supremely well to drive the dirt more.

it's a significantly different approach.

p90fool · May 2016

fretmeister said:

p90fool;1071768" said:
fretmeister said:

I had a JTM45 reissue. Was lovely but the lack of an fx loop annoyed me.

Curious, why would you need an FX loop on a non master volume amp?
Because I cranked it

Well yes, but then everything will be compressing and distorting, it won't stay clean like a master volume amp loop with a cranked preamp.
Does the position of the loop make it any different to putting everything in front?

fretmeister · May 2016

I think so. I don't like delay to be in front of drive at all, whether that be pedal or amp drive. Chorus & flanger in a loop, but I like phasers before drive.

chrispy108 · May 2016

But isn't a big chunk of the drive coming from the power amp, so it's not possible to put the fx loop after that?

exocet · May 2016

chrispy108;1072734" said:
But isn't a big chunk of the drive coming from the power amp, so it's not possible to put the fx loop after that?

I don't think that the Classic Plexi Marshall tone is Power Amp distortion - most of the distortion is coming from the Cathode Follower or possibly the Phase Inverter. An FX Loop placed after the cathode follower would still be beneficial for modulation fx in my view. You couldn't really put an FX Loop after the Phase Inverter due to the "in phase / out of phase" signals that are produced by that stage.

TimmyO · May 2016

Had the JCM 800 running in the Lo input today - bloody lovely clean sounds, and pedals sounding good in to it, I think the answer was under my nose...

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