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This simple trick made my Fender Blues Junior sound AMAZING
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Love it when people get great tones out of standard, regularly attainable gear instead of so many channels wanting to focus on rare, unattainable boutique stuff
I can’t afford a new amp. I did the Fremell mods, swapped in a Cannabis Rex, and replaced the reverb tank in my Blues Jr and it really opened the amp up, sounds really good now. You can find the Fremell mod instructions online and order like $30 in capacitors and resistors. The speaker was a little more expensive. But for like $150, you can really make this amp sing. Highly recommended to anyone who can’t afford to upgrade amps.
The BJr IV seems to be a different amp and I got one with a CR. Unless played loud and with gain I could never get it to sound bright enough. An older Jr would likely benefit from the CR. I swapped out the CR for a Jenson and I’m much happier.
Yeah the BJ IV has some changes vs the older versions. All I did to my IV was new tubes and speaker and also learned how to EQ it per Jack and it sounds very nice 😊
Pro-junior is ready to go, no mods needed.
@@giulioluzzardi7632 Pro Jr has the same tube array, minus one 12AX7. .
I came up with Fenders - '70s I had a 50 watt head & 2x10 cab with the band then later got a Twin. Last 20 years the only amp I've had in the studio is a Blues Jnr. and generally I back the mids off and find the clean balance depending on which guitar I'm using - anything from Strat to LP to Casino to Gretsch . . . and that gets me started for the chordal track, picking or strumming, then I usually bring in pedals for lead touches - Effectrode Blackbird, Victory Copper, Crowther Hot Cake, Distortion+ depending on the song but sometimes just go straight in and crank the amp. I recently got back a lovely 1957 Hofner Club 60 that I'd left back in NZ for 40 years (!) and I found a whole new sound pushing that thru the Aclam Dr. Robert with the Mach Schau on and mids at 11! It's a sort of hollow sound that sits well for rocky backing that I've been chasing for years (John Squire, the guy who has just done an album with Liam Gallagher, has it down to a tee). I've heard so much about the Princeton, though, so would love to get one at some point. Anyway, thanks as always for the great vids / discussions! Cheers.
Great stuff man. Thank you once again!!! Nice D’Angelico as well!
Thanks for the video. People say that it does not help to change the tubes on these amps. But on my amp it helped alot for the better. And the stock speaker always sounded so bright it was almost painful. So i changed the speaker to a Warehouse speaker. Which made a big difference as well. Very happy with the amp now.
You have done a few Blues Jr videos, and I’ve watched every one of them. So when this one came up, I was on it. I followed your advice and dialed down the mids and treble but kicked in a little reverb on my IV amp, and fiddled with them until I got what I was looking for. These newer tones sound terrific. Good stuff.
That's how I run mine and I add a Boss GE-7 at the end of my Pedal board with basically a flat eq and push the 100 bass slider up to make it sound like a bigger amp. I also put a Celestion Creamback G12H-75 in it. Sounds awesome.
I’ve had the tweed junior 1v for a few months now and I absolutely love it
That’s wild. I just got my iii back from the shop after it sat for a couple years. It just occurred to me to cut the mids as a baseline for checking out some new tones and I experienced the same thing. I dime the volume w the flat switch on, turn the master down and control the volume w my guitar. Damn. Sounds waaay better than whatever I was doing before.
That D’Angelico is fire.
Thanks for sharing it made a great impression on my Strat tone
Sounds good J. Will have to remember this.
I did the same thing with my Pro Junior V1 - except I scooped it with an EQ pedal. Amp tone at 10, volume at high noon. Huge sound improvement.
Broke mine out this weekend and forgot how good this amp actually is 😊
Yeah I do this setting for one year and I am happy. 🎉😂❤ But still love your videos. Always happy to watch new stuff from you. Now I am experimenting with a tube preamps with this amp. Love this amp for sure. Greerings from Czech Republic. 😊
I always scooped the mids on my blues jr and now I have a blues deluxe reissue with a 12ay7 in v1 and a wgs et65 speaker and I still have the mids almost all the way down, the bass maybe 2-3 and the treble almost all the way up, on channel 1, input 1, presence around 2-3pm volume bout 3/4 up. I think I get some really good tones. When I crank the mids more it’s still a good tone it’s just not what I prefer it’s more of a rock n roll think where you need a little more overdrive. I play mostly clean with a wampler ego comp boosting the signal into input 1 and compressing just a little, and a UA golden reverberator, and a mythos mjolnir with the overdrive down and the output boosted going into the effects loop. I get pretty close to that slow dancing in a burning room tone. Guitar volume turned down to about 6, neck and middle with the neck tone about 4-5. It’s a really sweet tone. People hate on the blues deluxe a lot and I originally didn’t like it but it’s growing on me.
Sounds great 👍
This is some of your nicest playing Jack. You have always impressed me as a musician and player but your continue to inspire with your own dedication and development. Keep up the great work.
Wow, thank you! Btw I love your profile picture there - the very dad I aspire to be like
Great video Jack
Great video, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
100% Jack. I have used these settings a ton on my Blues Jr, and find them to work equally well on my Fillmore 25 as well. Creates a sort of dynamic “wall of sound” effect, and makes the reverb much more usable. Really fills the space. Quick stomp on OD pedal can then reshape the tone for more focused solos, where necessary.
I use my tube screamer with my ‘57 tweed champ, love the tone. As much as I love Fender amps I bought a Mesa Boogie Filmore 25 in January (not cheap, but worth it) and it’s become my main amp.
I've been dialing my tweed Blues Jr. Like this ever since I got it over a year ago! I knew I wasn't crazy! 😂
Same (though for more like 5yrs), and bone stock other than replacing tubes. At least for my playing style/guitars/use case, rolling the mids down is definitely the sweet spot for this amp, 90% of the time. That said, I've always been curious about the various mods to these (to open them up a bit), and of course speakers are a critical part of which frequencies ultimately hit our ears--so I think the longer I have it, the greater the likelihood of one alteration or another...
Just got a 68 Vibro Champ Reverb Amp after looking at your videos. Love the cleans. Looking to try the edge of breakup tone but pash 8 it’s really loud. Do you use an attenuator with yours? Or would you recommend any OD or boost? Thanks for your vids 👌
I'm looking forward to trying this out. My Blues jr has been relegated to my work bench for years because of this issue. I'll let you know. Thanks
I like that nice, woody overdrive tone with P90's toward the end of the video. Yet another example of why you have to set some amps up by ear, and not by eye!
Thanks for this. cut my mids to two. I’ve got my bass up near 12 treble at six and then play with the master and the volume amp never sounded better thank you so much. I should add that I have the amp off the ground probably why I need the base cranked up a bit more.
I use a tweed blues jr, with a cannabis Rex speaker. I find it easier to dial in than the celestial speaker. Thanks for this informative video.
Same here. Cannabis Rex is a great speaker paired with the junior to my ears.
Funny my tweed has a Jensen speaker
@@wallywanker7435 mine also came with the Jenson speaker. I just preferred the Rex and swapped it from another amp I had. The jenson is a good speaker just wasn’t the tone I was looking for with the junior. It has a lot of sparkle and sounded better with a cabinet and head combo I had that was kind of dark.
@@gb1978gb the other fella said he had a celestial speaker 🤷, I think he meant celestian. Either way I didn’t recall them coming with them .i honestly use my little 5watt champ tweed reissue more then any of my amps lol.
I replaced the speaker, tubes, transformer, wiring, diodes, capacitors, power supply, and cabinet and stuck a Peavey Classic 30 badge on it and now it sounds great! 😁
Peavey classic series amps are worth every penny!
I added a jumper on my mids tone pot that allows even more of a mid cut. Really simple and effective mod on blues junior amps.
I use the fender bassman setting on my Digitech pedalboard and plug it into the clean channel on my hot rod deluxe. I also use it on my much maligned red knob super 60 amp. The harshest amp fender ever made. It definitely helps the tone. Amp modeling through a tube amp sounds great without having to turn up as loud.
I am going to try those settings tonight! I put an Eminence Swamp Thang in my Blues Jr. last year and love - thicker, chunkier sound, but I’ve not thought about cutting the mids so much.
Ty nice tip
I bought a new 1965 Fender Deluxe Reverb and The Fender LT-40 S Amp - also I bought the Clapton Strat .
my go to to setting on most amps ...
Mine is ‘94 Mexican made tweed , stock Jensen speaker , always keep the fat switch on. Great solo/bedroom amp. For bigger sounds I use one of my Music Mans , which are the best amps ever made.
I use the same approach with cleans on my Peavey Bravo. 3,2,6.
Awesome video! Great playing and wonderful advice. I think the BJ is one of the best amps out there. Whenever I get an amp that sounds boxy, turn back the mids. You've arrived at a gorgeous tone here, btw, you might like the hot rod 40 with the same settings. Thanks for all that you do to help us players!!!!
I put an Eminence Cannabis Rex speaker in mine, I’ve tried Celestion Greenback & Vintage 30 speakers too. The C/Rex beats them all in this amp IMO. I’ve used all sorts of settings including cutting the Mids, it sounds great, even with a TS808, although my o/d of choice is a BD-2.
I’m currently working on getting the best from my newly acquired 68 Custom Princeton Reverb.
Tele sounds very good. I got rid of my Jr because of boxy sound. Do you have the Jensen speaker?
I have had the same Blues Junior ("Limited" Tweed) since 2007. When I decided that I wanted it to sound like a Princeton... I BOUGHT A PRINCETON. I know not everyone has the resources to do this but trust me - if you own both a Princeton and BJr, one will get played more than the other. (Used '68 Custom Princeton Reverbs can be found for under $750 and they are worth every penny.)
I’ve owned two Princeton Reissues and never cared for them, they didn’t have prototypical glassy Fender cleans and didn’t take drive pedals nearly as well as the tweed Blues Junior. Not to mention the Princetons barely have any clean headroom. The 10 inch speaker doesn’t do it any favors either.
@@sixbladeknife44 I am not sure you will find the “glassy cleans” in a Princeton Reverb, it doesn’t have a bright cap in the circuit like that of the AB763 amps vibrato channel. For that reason there is more warmth to the Princeton at lower volumes.
@@sixbladeknife44 Agreed with both of you. There's a local studio guitarist who uses a Princeton with a strat and gets an AMAZING warm tone. It works for his playing, very, very, very well. So I decided I needed a Princeton. Well, it's a great amp, but it just doesn't work for me, for my style of playing. You're correct it doesn't have that beautiful clean Fender sparkle, which is the whole point as far as I'm concerned. I'm a huge fan of SRV's tone. I know it's cliche, but it doesn't get any better if you ask me. I have a vintage 66 Twin that gets very close, but for the $/size/weight, the BJ is damn close, and kinda does it's own thing and has it's own vibe. I really, really enjoy my BJ NOS w/ Weber Legacy 12.
An Xotic RC booster "fixes" the BJ.. Clean and overdriven..
Love your videos...
What would you suggest for a small amplifier that has the ability of switching the watt output to play Can You Hear Me Knocking by the Rolling Stones.
I replaced the stock Jensen with a Celestion Creamback in my tweed Jr. I think the choice of using EL84 tubes along with its inherent midrange, the Blues Jr to my ear has more “British” character so I basically have a tiny Marshall I can carry around easily.
Sounds good, i sold both of mine never liked them ,but this sounds pretty awesome...
Good tip. Those amps have always sounded ear piercing when I tried them in stores. I luv Fender amps, but that one never did it for me. I figured you were going to say turn down the treble. Anyway, it sounded much better in your clip than I've heard them before, so you're onto something here.
Almost makes me want to try a Blues Junior… again. Great playing as always.
Agreed
I really like the tone you got with the Tube Screamer. Try a Wampler Belle pedal with the same settings on your amp. You’ll have Tube Screamer like dimensions you never thought of.
The IV was offered with four different speakers. I have the one with the Celestion and I love it! But like you said, they're all Blues Jr's and mine has some of the characteristics you describe. You got yours sounding sweet though homie! It just takes time (a lot) to get things the way you want them. I got the BJr IV with the Celestion becuse my other amp has a Celestion and they sound absolutely wonderful together. But I love it by itself too. Great vid and nice playing brada!
Good tone
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Jack also happy Monday happy mother's day ❤😊
Nice video Jack. Good to know you’re getting more out of the BJ, despite some notable weaknesses. Have you ever tried one that’s been modded? The Fromel mods look interesting. A few of them target the mid range and claim to eliminate the boxiness, etc
i like the boxy sound 😂
Jack that sounded great … not too low and not too loud which is right in the BJ’s wheelhouse!
I found if you put a Blues Driver in front of the Blues Jr and drop the mids when playing solo you can play even at very low volumes, and have pick controll
Good idea. I have a BJ IV and will try this. I apologize if you've mentioned it before but what speaker do you have in your blues jr III?
Stock Jensen C12
The old BillM Blues JR Twin Mod allows you to turn the Midrange completely off, giving you just Bass and Treble. I've been using it for years with Teles, Strats and LPs. Very simple mod.
I've just bought a Hot Rod Deluxe IV.
After a few days of tweaking, I found out that the Treble, Bass and Mid knobs should stay under 4. As for the Presence.
And Bright Switch engaged
The amp sounds its best with these settings.
The Volume knob is also much more manageable this way.
And guitar plugged in Input 2.
Crank the master and the presence. Crack the volume. Thank me later
The finish on that D’Angelico is beautiful. And yeah, scooping the mid sounds good to my ears. You broke the setting rules but your secret is safe with us.
A 12ay7 in V1 does wonders for this amp, and all the hot rod amps👍
I agree!
And i don’t know if this is common in most of these amps? But the stock tubes in my amp were terrible.
Yes, that gives a much better use of the volumeknob range
For the longest time, I dreamed of owning a Fender Princeton Reverb amplifier with a 12" speaker. However, after watching numerous videos on RUclips (including yours) and testing one in a store, I have changed my mind. Now, my dream amplifier is a Blues Junior (IV). I have gained a lot of knowledge and enjoyment from your videos featuring the Blues Jr. Thank you.
But the Princeton is a lot better 😂
Comparing the two is a fool's errand, they're both capable of usable tones, but they're not going to sound the same, even if you use the same speaker the circuits and the cab they sit in are noticably different
Both great amps. Get the one you want!
I own a 65 Princeton reissue. And I find myself watching videos on Tone King’s, Lazy J’s… it never ends!
@@VintageRadius And if you got a tone king, you'd want a two rock next lol
That sounds very nice. One thing I did with my HRD is to put in an EVM12L. That seems to have increased my headroom considerably. I would be curious to hear your Blues Jr with a high wattage speaker like the EVM and explore how much headroom you can get and keep that wonderful Fender sound. I also put a shorter reverb tank in my HRD which allows me to set the reverb past 4.
You need MORE headroom out of the Hot Rod Deluxe ?!
Man you must be playing really LOUD to start with 😅
😎 It’s a long story, but I’ll never go back to the stock Fender speaker. I wish I knew someone around me with a stock HRD that I could compare my modded HRD to. I also changed my output transformer to a Hammond. Kind of wondering if it was worth the effort. Well, was fun and interesting for me to get my hands in it.
I do crank it up, but use a JHS amp box for a master volume instead of a speaker soak of some sort. I have speaker soak, but the JHS amp box was my lazy old guy choice. 🤣
I love my HRD. I wouldn’t change it for any other Fender amplifier. It’s easy to work on and the effects loop is a big deal for me. Perfect for a master volume, modulation and/or EQ.
Sounds great. Would've loved for you to pull that Les Paul off the wall and give us a humbucker demo.
Mojotone has/had a cabinet replacement for the BJr. I think it’s a bit bigger and was supposed to really open the amp up into what should have been all along. It looks like a pretty easy drop in process that anyone could do in under an hour. Maybe you can do that for a video! 😎😎😎😎😎👍
I don’t know if that’s YOU, or the Blues Jr., but it sounds fantastic. Well played.
If you want to get rid of the boxy sound you need a bigger cabinet. For a single 12” speaker try a cabinet with the dimensions of a deluxe reverb 10.5 - 12” deep, depending on how much bottom end you want. I made one with pine sides and 3/8” plywood baffle and back panel. The thinner plywood panels really make the cabinet sing.
Great tip bro!
I find that blues jrs sounds best with the reverb circuit disconnected, and all the other knobs dimed. Then it soars.
that FAT switch they have on there, that's for single coil guitars which Fender mostly makes. It sounds quite good with that switch on
You need to try some NOS tubes in there! I personally prefer RCA Blackplates in my input and output sections of my Fender style amps.
Yep, i'm a mid-scooper kind of guy. I didn't even realise I was doing it but my amps are 12o'clock on bass and treble 9o'clock on middle.
What’s the make model of that beautiful Fender Telecaster you began the video with?
It was a limited edition American Original 50s Telecaster with what's called the "Mary Kaye" treatment (based on the famous Stratocaster). It's chambered too.
@@JackFossett Woah! She’s a beauty! And your playing on it was amazing.
I’ve got a tweed Blues Junior. I’ve never really been able to dial in the tone I’m looking for on ANY amp. I bought a Super Champ XD and ended up liking it more. These videos are making me want to dust off the BJ and go find a used telecaster 😂
I haven't done this!! I'll give this a try tomorrow. It sure sounds nice!! You played Fender Tele single coil pups and soap bar P-90 pick ups. I have both, so no sweat. But, have you tried this with the good old Gibson humbucker aka Les Paul and if so, what was your experience? Cool video, I like evaluations where the guitar goes straight into the amp. Not this BS where the output of the amp is mic'd into God knows what type of PA. GOOD DEAL!!!
Are you playing the guitars wide open or dialed back?
Wide open in this video
I have the same advice for anyone that has the 4x10 h.r. DeVille- at least for more lower output single coil sounds I started lowering the meds on that and boy does it sound better! (I feel it sound maybe is good as like a basement if I had enough money for new speakers...) But it's pretty freaking close...*my idea actually is to get a better sound cheaply is when I have enough money I'm just going to get a good 2x12 Marshall/ Marshall adjacent cab and run it in parallel with the current speakers I think it's going to sound excellent because right now I mix it with my 100 4 x 12 Marshall believe it or not! Because I have a cheap AV pedal doesn't even have a phase switch or whatever and they sound really good together but because of the fenders crap speakers I actually use the Marshall for the clean stuff and for the distortion I use the fender..
**I forgot to add that this is the 4x10 Deville III - BC as Jack and others I think have noted the earlier versions tend to have a little bit crappy drive and distortion sounds but the drive channel on that version is actually pretty good
Sorry I work at a loud building and I can't use my hands...*trying to say lower the mid-range & it could sound as good as a fender bassman with relatively little work
I quite like the mid range from a blues junior. I have a tweed one with a jensen speaker, put the eq at 666 and run a tubescreamer in the front. Works perfectly
I was set on getting a new Blues Junior tweed Ltd and walked out with a 68 custom vibro champ because it sounded so much better than the Blues Junior.
The 68 Vibros are great little amps
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I roll back the midrange knob whenever I plug into a Fender amp ... (if there is a midrange knob, that is!)
I’ve bought 3 through the years cuz grab em up for good deals. Couldn’t wait to get rid of it every time.😂
The only time I got a great sound out of it was when I hooked it up to my Mesa 2x12 cab.
It does feel sinful scooping that much, but like you said, use your ears. Thanks for the tip
Yes, sounds good here, but how does it sound in a full band? Loads of amps sound good scooped when you have nothing else with them, but you lose them completely once you have more instruments at play.
The point is that the amp on its own is excessively midrangey, so by dialing back the mids knob, it still retains punch and warmth.
The boxy sound is a function of the small particle board cabinet. It's not a terrible amp. It's just a terrible cab.
It's a matter of taste but I don't like the scooped tone....I recognised it immediately in the beginning of the video.I love mids and enjoy the boxiness of a Blues Junior...that's what makes the amp cool and applicable to certain types of Blues and Rock sounds.With the mids dialed so far back I find it lacks punch and sounds a bit unnatural.
Ever listened to Albert Collins?
Ice pick !
Always remember…Master volume up all the way on a Blues Jr!
The real trick to the Blues Jr is to turn the master almost all the way down and turn the vol up.
If you put middel treble bass on 0 it sounds like a fender champ
Don't be fooled. Jack was running scooped mids before it was a thing.🎸
Pretty sure I’m cited as one of James Hetfield’s biggest influences
Save dough, get Pro-junior.
This works so well on my limited edition sweetwater bj
the trick is to put a greenback in it.
Let's be honest, best case it sounds average. Even if you have a model with a decent speaker.
I have a blues jr. and always liked the tone. But I am not a expert like you, but now after watching this video, it is obvious that dont know anything about tone or amp setup.
It is a marginal amp with reliability issues, and difficult to repair!
I haven't repaired a failed BJr yet, but I have modded my own and some for friends. The EL84 tubes are biased hot and can indeed fail early. The bias can be adjusted by replacing fixed resistors, or even by adding trim pots. The BJr is typical of the mass-produced amps with PC boards, and some folks may find PC boards difficult to repair. Point-to-point construction is great for amps that must endure the rough handling that comes with gigging, but P-to-P comes with a higher price tag. The Bassbreaker 15 is much more difficult to repair due to the arrangement of the PC boards. At least with the BJr, just the back panel can be taken off to gain access to the interior. An uncommon mod that I added to my own 2006 LE Tweed Bjr was tube tremolo effect featuring the unused half of the V2 12AX7 tube for the oscillator to modulate the bias voltage on the EL84 tubes.
right dont like chickenknobs feels so random
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Begging the question. Should you have to work that hard for tone?
I would agree with you if he was swapping speakers or doing modifications to the circuitry to get a tone he likes from the amp, but c’mon man. Turning an EQ knob isn’t working hard.
not a trick it's an adjustment
Ok 🍻
Sounds funny ....