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Clean sounds like a pre gain control fender valve amp just a lot more headroom and shitload more clean volume. I'd almost go as far as maybe better than JC120.
Tested a bit of over drive and it actually produces a lovely lead tone in a Freddie King cranked to max fender sound. A little hand muting a slightly softer picking and it will drop from that to a nice vintage clean with a little twang. Brilliant for something like Hideaway lead sounds brill then you get the change in texture for Shuffle in between... Compressor comes in to it's own here (loads said its in wrong place) it isn't its in just the right place in chain so you can bring the level of the quieter clean Shuffle or other playing up to a level it doesn't get lost in band or level with band for rhythm part. If you put compressor where people say it should be you'd loose ability to get it from drive to clean with just a change in touch. the compressor preserves those changes but adjusts volume to right place for mix. And its a nice quality optical compressor so really doesn't loose any of the delicacy of what player is doing.
not ventured much past there for gain yet and not really tried it as a pedal platform but will update as i do.
all i can say if your in market for a JC120, Fender Clean but can't afford them you'd do really well to look here. I'll also add, certainly with underwound paf its a compelling vintage blues tone too (and don't just think bb king, I was getting really close to Freddie king tones). At money they sell for (less than a solid state fender champ s/h) you could be very clever with a low budget
These are really good-sounding amps, and very well-built as well. Their only real problem is the use of quite a few rather unique parts, which can make them difficult to repair - including the pots and knobs. Luckily yours looks to be in fine condition and without any of the common damage to these.
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really love the 4x10 setup in this too really does sound superb
when you look at what a JC120 goes for clean is as good or better but lab series od is a different league to JC.
And no noisey pots either, thank god....
unless i am being thick I'll try and find a few photos or something of others
It's wired with the two right-hand (in the pic) speakers in parallel, and the other two in series, in parallel with the first two. That will produce less than the required 8-ohm load, so hopefully you haven't really cranked it! They are at least all in phase .
The correct wiring is series-parallel - not parallel-series, there is a difference.
What to do...
First remove all the wiring - it's probably easiest to start again. (Edit - actually the wiring between the two right-hand speakers is correct, you can leave that.)
Connect the white and black wires from the amp to the top two terminals you can see - white to the left speaker (red dot terminal) and black to the right speaker.
Connect both speakers on each side in parallel - red dot to red dot with a white wire, plain to plain with a black wire.
Connect the remaining black wire between the two lowest terminals.
This isn't the worst mis-wiring I've ever seen by the way!
"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
gonna need to read that a few times as its not really jumping out at me yet.
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And you beat me to it . That corresponds to the picture exactly.
The only other thing I would suggest is to bunch the wires up - especially the series link across the bottom - and cable-tie them, that will stop them getting snagged by anything you put in the cabinet.
"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
The oddest I've come across was a 4x12" which had been rewired as (it took me some time to work this out!) one speaker in series with the other three, which were wired as a single speaker in parallel with the other two in series and out of phase! Thus the total cab impedance was 16+(1/16+1/32) = 26.6 ohms, and the first speaker was taking almost 2/3 of the power to the whole cabinet.
I assume it must have somehow 'evolved' into that wiring as speakers were replaced by people who didn't know what they were doing - the only two originals were the out-of-phase series pair. The amazing thing was that it didn't sound *that* odd, and the speaker which was taking the most power hadn't blown again despite being the lowest-rated.
"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