Hey there community friends, my first ever tube amp arrived recently, a Fender Blues Junior IV, the Tweed model with Jensen speakers. I am very happy with how it looks, sounds and feels
I got a ton of advice from the community that led to this selection.
Congratulation Ashu.
I think there’s a lot to like about that amp. I almost got one too.
I really like the IV version. I don’t know what changed between the III and the IV, but I really liked the IV.
Now the question is, will your old amps that aren’t tube amps get any play at all? Hope you really enjoy having a tube amp. The tones they can produce will be addicting.
Just hope ya don’t get bit by the tube amp bug though. Assuming that ya do get bit (very easy to do when one is in the house), that’ll lead you to buying more tube amps in the future…
Congrats man and hope you have a lot of fun with your new amp.
Nice Amp, Jensen speakers in a Fender Tweed amp are a match made in heaven! It’s sonically a wonderful combination, full of what Fender amps are about!
I had hoped to buy a tube amp that had some of the modern features of my digital amp eg FX loop so I can mix acoustic and electric guitar sounds, a direct out to my DAW… but I decided to keep my Catalyst 60 for those use cases, and use the Blues Jr for all others.
To me, that’s the fun of a tube amp. It’s just me and my amp (maybe a pedal or two, sometimes). To me, it’s what tones I can get out of my tube amp w/o any outside influence.
As for DI into my DAW. Two of my amps have line out, so I could plug into my DAW. However I don’t. I put a mic in ft of them. My 3rd amp don’t even have line out. It’s just a amp. No choice but to mic it.
It’s the simplicity of this that I like. There are many tones to get out of your tube amp. Embrace the simplicity… Play with the control you do have. ie tone stack, vol. controls, onboard reverb I think ya got. + ya got your guitar tone and vol. controls too. That’s quite a bit of control imho. Just not effects.
It’s like my acoustic guitar. It’s just me and my guitar. If I sound good, I’m doing good. If I sound bad, I got work to do as there is nothing (ie effects) to cover my poor playing.
Embrace simplicity!