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It's not really a classic Fender distortion at all.
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The 15w amp I finally bought was a Laney Cub12R (in which I put a Celestion Vintage 30 and changed the tubes to hand-tested JJ's). For me there's just no comparison - even the 'stock' Cub just blows the BJ out of the water.
It's light, portable and sounds ok miked up if you have excellent monitoring, but as far as onstage sound was concerned it may as well have been a DI box.
I wanted to like it, I loved the Pro Junior and used an attenuator with that in the same band.
Actually I agree that they can sound quite good with pedals, but only at such a low volume that you're going to need to be mic'ed - which may not be a problem if you do that anyway.
What I really don't understand is why they're so popular when they're so overpriced compared to the Hotrod Deluxe - which is more than twice the amp for only a third more money.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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The drummer has nothing to do with it, the 15w Fender Pro Jr is very loud and very good, the 15w Fender Blues Jr is a toy on comparison in my experience.
As said above a Hot Rod Deluxe trounces a Blues Jnr for pretty much *anything*. I'd also say it's pretty shit for 'blues' too
I think I might get my Jet City serviced, and keep it. The cost of buying the Blues Jr is just too much.
The only valve part is the power amp, the preamp is solid-state/digital on both channels.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I've actually played a few Blues Jr IIIs, and I do think the sparkle mod and speaker upgrade improved what was already a really good amp, but for my money the Pro Jr is better. Trickier to pick up second hand though, as folk tend not to sell them on. But I don't think it's been changed in the last few upgrades. @ICBM can correct me if I'm wrong but the Pro Jr II and III are the same amp, right?
Noise, randomness, ballistic uncertainty.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein