I truly believe your capabilities will make any amp sound remarkable, I love your channel 👌👌

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words!

@godzoo18

Ай бұрын

Stop these ridiculous comments.

They all sound great in your hands. Excellent playing!

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Kind of you to say - thanks!

Great Job Man Thankyou Peavey.it's Wonderful Sound.❤❤❤❤❤

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Glad you like it!

Really enjoyed your playing and the review ! Thank you for sharing ! New subscriber !

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Very kind of you thanks!

I had the older 15W Cube (which I loved) and then the newer Cube like yours- It had a noticeable hiss that I couldn’t dial out, not what I wanted for low volume practice, so I sold it on. The Henriksen Bud 6 has none of the hiss, and it handles everything I plug into it. Teles especially.

Great to hear Louis Stewart getting a mention. He was a fine player.

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Indeed

@Kevin-zz9nc

Ай бұрын

Saw him live several times in the early 80s. Just like Rory Gallagher he never played less than 3 hours a night and they both had a similar no frills approach.

@Kevin-zz9nc

Ай бұрын

3.20 Holy smokes thats the sweetest jazz tone EVER.

Great sound!

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

The Roland Cube and the Peavey both sound terrific. Especially for the price!

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Agreed!

@rsmallfield

Ай бұрын

The Katana (also by Roland) is very common second hand these days. Have you compared one of them with the Cube?

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

@@rsmallfield I haven't.

They do all sound good. A bit less low end on the Roland, but it sounds mellow and focused, definitely useable imo. Thanks! I have a Quilter 101, going through a Cannabis Rex 12" speaker. Gives a great clean tone. And super light. Thumbs up on the alnico 2 pickup also. Love those!

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

I know what you mean about the low end in the Roland. Everyone keeps telling me how good Quilters are.

Roland Jazz Chorus or a Quilter for solid state amps doing Jazz tones. Fender Princeton, Super Reverb, Vibrolux or a Twin Reverb for Tube Jazz tones.

...and it's very light to carry!

Best clean sound I personally ever heard out of a solid state amp was a Blues Cube Hot that I owned. That being said, l have not had the pleasure of trying a Quilter or Henriksen as yet.

@picker63028

Ай бұрын

I have the Quilter micropro mach 2 and the 101 and 202 quilter head units. It doesn't soothe my itch for a great jazz tone. Play one first. I have never seen the Henriksen in my area.

Henriksen Bud 100%

I love the sound of my Vox Clubman 60 with my Jet telecaster (as well as with my archtop, for which it is designed). The reverb's not bad too!

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

I’ve heard good things about Jets

@keithfre_nl

Ай бұрын

@@jamieholroydguitar I love mine. It plays extremely smoothly, needed no setup, the tuning is incredibly stable, and it has a great range of sounds. Only drawback: bl**dy heavy, but that gives it lots of sustain.

I think they all sound good for Jazz. Especially with your exquisite playing. I had however huge problems to get a decent Jazz tone out of my Polytone Mini Brute I. The treble is ear piercing. I have to roll it back to almost 0 and the bass up to 8. If I add middle it sounds even worse. I use the dark channel. To get a decent tone I also roll back the treble on the guitar to around 8. My Cube 60 however sound brilliant; and warmer than the Polytone. . But here also I have to get the treble down quite far.

@jamieholroydguitar

12 күн бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. I think they’re both great amps

Excellent video - very refreshing to hear clean sounds only. As a jazz player myself, I'm pretty fed up with all the other amp and guitar reviews having almost exclusively distorted/overdriven sounds. I wonder what you feel about the Supro Delta King 12? It's a lightweight tube amp with great clean sounds. Thanks again for a great review, I love your guitar tone and your playing.

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you! I agree that it can be hard to find some reviews with clean sounds. I’ve heard that Supros are great but haven’t tried them personally

I own many jazz amps, but my preferred for home use is definitely my Kustom 12 A. Try it!

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

I remember trying Kustom amps about 20 years ago and been impressed

I bought a Polytone Mini-Brute just yesterday.

@takeawaybenji

Ай бұрын

Also, I think a Fender Twin or Bassman sounds great. To get that tone in a smaller package, the Quilter amps seem great.

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Congrats! Great amps.

Mostly a Jazz listener here - I thought the first, small 8” amp sounded the best. Most reminiscent of old recordings or live footage where every note is clear as a bell with a hint of aggression. Not so much of that distracting woof down there.

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Thanks yes I’ve heard a lot of players like to use 8” amps for recording for that reason

@ekredel

Ай бұрын

I too hate it when there’s a woof down there 😂

Would like you to play through a Fender Champ, with your Tele!!!!

Aw. I was looking forward to the MusicMan that you showed in the thumbnail photo.

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Sorry - sold it about a year ago! Cool amps for regularly gigging musicians but they’re also heavy

Roland Micro Amp's still sound great.

I have two cube amps they are good, the Katana 50 is a little better has more sensitivity and when you dig in it acts more like a valve. It really does have a lot to do with how you set the amp up and your technique. Reasonable gear and the rest is your ears and your hands.

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Used a Roland Bolt 60W for years in a "Swingband" ... couldn't afford the Jazz Chorus 120W!

I enjoy your playing. On KZread, all the amps sounded very similar and usable, clean and balanced, but a little stiff, like solid state amps tend to be. In my 60 years of playing just about every kind of amp you can imagine, my personal favorite is the Fender Princeton Reverb. I hope you will try one, I bet you would love it. . . . . . . .

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Yes Princeton’s are nice but not as loud as Blues Juniors

@mannoplanet

Ай бұрын

I had a Princeton for decades. Now i have the Princeton Tonemaster. Sounds the same and has a direct out.

@rigelloar7474

Ай бұрын

@@mannoplanet Cool. The Princeton has such a friendly sound. . . .

Quilter is worth the money.

@aidandorrian920

Ай бұрын

I wish ...

Polytone nailed it!

Henricksen is by far the best jazz amp today

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

They are good!

What will be the settings on tat Cube-amp? And on the guitar?

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Volume and tone rolled back a bit on the guitar. Most of the knobs on the cube are dailed back too

Jamie, I'm a beginner. Well, I can play a little bit, but not anything close to jazz. I can't tell a huge difference between the amps, I'm sure due to my inexperience. I'm upgrading from a nylon string. Would you recommend getting an expensive (for me) guitar and a smaller amp, or a cheaper guitar and nicer amp? If I go for an expensive guitar, I'm thinking of getting a road worn telecaster, I love the look and feel. But if I get a cheaper guitar, I'll probably get a Squier telecaster. Thank you for any advice you might have.

@bobfig

Ай бұрын

Sort of related question, which makes the most difference to getting a jazz sound... the guitar, or the amp?

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Good question and a bit of chicken and egg argument. For playing general guitar styles you’re always better getting a quality amp. However for jazz the cheap amps also sound great at home so I’d get a nice guitar. The early road worns are the best but most of the classic reissue mex/Jap Teles are nice, especially if you upgrade the pots and pickups.

First try a Henriksen, Mark World or a Milkman amp! Before you make a decision?!

@paulgerards6494

Ай бұрын

Or what about a Quilter amp?!

I like the micro cube better plus it has more quality sounds they quit making the first 2 generations so you can find them cheap . Great for practice and recording. Little small for stage but you could mike it and have zero noise running batteries. I have a deal against peavey they burned me on a guitar in 90s and then the owner made a deal with everyone right well when they came into work on Monday morning there’s a letter on the door telling sorry even though I just told everybody on TV that you were getting a raise and I was actually going to take care of my employees im firing everyone and selling my name to a china company this is after he got into a fight with Eddie van halen see Eddie figured out his deal and walked away from peavey and he claimed Eddie was hard to deal with but we all no peavey was a crook so that amp would have to sound like angels singing for me to touch it also parts for them are bad and break I’ve known people who fixed them only to last a week or so before they were on fire smoking again

Have you checked out any of the Quilter amps?

@What_If_We_Tried

Ай бұрын

I love my Quilter SuperBlock US, especially the "57", and "65" tones. And if I was a gigging musician, and if I could play Jazz, I probably would have bought the 101 Reverb head.

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Not yet but I hear good things

@GuitarJawn

Ай бұрын

@@jamieholroydguitar I use a 101R and it's great. You will like them

@GuitarJawn

Ай бұрын

@@jamieholroydguitar They are great amps, I use a 101R and love it to pieces

Are the strings flatwounds?

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

No, just very old round wounds!!

What strings are you using. Great video!

@geckobaldy

Ай бұрын

Jamie is using an old set of 10s

@mongoharry

Ай бұрын

Really? 10 round wound?

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

@@mongoharry Yes. They're really old having been on over two years, but I have new strings on two other guitars which I am not as into.

@mongoharry

Ай бұрын

@@jamieholroydguitar Thank you for your response! I have trouble handling strings that are 12 or higher, but I find their tone to be distinctly good. I have used the GHS Pat Martino set (15's, flat) on a Squier Strat. Its clean tones sounded incredible.

Polytone is the best from others.

Interested in Fender Acoustic Amps?

I find that almost any amp sounds good at low volume for jazz. The real test is when you have to turn up at a gig and then the harshness comes out.

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Very true.

Don’t laugh but I can get some great sounds out of a humble Behringer HA-40R. It is a solid state 40w with a 10 inch speaker and real spring reverb. I can get different flavours using either the clean or overdrive (gain set very low) channels. It is about £80.

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Sounds great!

Mambo 10 wedge mate?

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Solid amps! I used to have an 8.

Hard body sleeper believe it or not bruno mars will blo your hands and mind away warning! Don’t touch it or you’ll be dreaming about it i now have to rearrange everything to make the deal . That compound radius is perfect Ive never played a fender i had to own but these new necks ate game changers

Genuine naive question-why is good jazz guitar tone considered to be so dark? I’m not into a clean bridge brittle tone- I get it that is really bright and grating-but why isn’t a nice warm neck single coil with some healthy midrange considered to be a good tone? Is it because that’s what jazz guitarists sounded like in the 40s-60s and that is ‘standardized’?

@aidandorrian920

Ай бұрын

Always play the "neck pickup" for Jazz, on Tele ... love THAT SOUND!

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Good question - probably a topic for an entire video really. I consider players like Holdsworth to have amazing jazz tones and I don't think he ever used the neck pickup! Wes also occasionally used other pickup selections. There was many years of jazz guitarists who only would have access to guitars with neck humbuckers historically which might have something to do with it too. Although most jazz guitarists to my ears do have midrange warm tones - there's only a few which I would consider to have very dark sounds like Pat Martino, Jim Hall, and Chuck Wayne.

… I think, … skills are much over hardware !

@jamieholroydguitar

Ай бұрын

Always

hope one day Roland release a jazz cube combo.

peavey classic and valveking also killing amps