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Not saying it won't work, but it might not be a simple plug and play backup.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I mainly use it with my ES330 and this combination sounds lovely. As Gassage above says, the cleans are VERY clean and very different from the warmth of the Princeton (which I also love, BTW). That said, I wouldn't use the word "harsh" to describe it. To me the JC40 cleans sound a lot like George Benson which is a sound I personally love. Very clean but also very expressive and responsive to nuance.
I've mainly played mine at home, and like the simplicity of it for just switching it on an playing a song when I'm walking past and the fancy takes me - as opposed to waiting for valves to warm up etc. This sounds trivial, but I do find it significant. There is indeed a bit of hiss, but it doesn't bother me personally. I've also played it a few times in a small jazz combo I play with, and brought it to open mic nights, and it works well in these situations too. Sounds great in a small-band mix and cuts through nicely.
Using your existing pedals for drive won't, probably obviously, work in quite the same way and I suspect you'll need some serious knob twiddling . Although the drive section on the 40 is supposed to be radically different from that of the old JCs and much more useable.
Might be worth a look @builttospill
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To me it really is night and day, and I say that as a massive fan of the JC clean sound.
100% giggable, I gigged one recently that belongs to a friend and was on 1/4 volume all night, sounded great mic,d up and I could hear it loud as hell on stage at a 350 cap venue
beyond being a touchmore compressed hitting the amp I think they handle distortions well overall. You just have to like the base sound to it, because it kind of always sounds like a JC no matter what your throwing at it. Perfect amp for home and gig use which isn’t often said