Blast from the past amp day….

[Findthetone1]

I played the JM250 head through a Trace Elliot 4x12 for a long time. It was a fun amp.

 

[japetus]

I want a J Station now so I can run my POD bean and J Station in stereo

 

[heath]

When I got my J-Station, one of my bandmates at the time had the POD 2.0. We compared the units and found that the J-station was better in most areas, with the exception of the compressor. I think the units of the time sounded best with the speaker simulation off and into the effects return of an amp though. Cabinet emulation has historically been and continues to be a weak spot in many of the digital modelers. The Line 6 POD 2.0 won the marketing war. I also owned a Behringer V-Amp 2, which seemed like a blatant clone of the POD 2.0 and I also owned the Vox Tonelab LE which sounded pretty decent. I heard from a former Line 6 employee who worked during that period that Vox licensed the POD 2.0 modeling for the tonelabs. The POD XT bean replaced my J-station for direct recording, but honestly the tones were not much improved.

The johnson stuff seemed to be better than its competitors though and I think that much of what they did was rolled into the Digitech Genesis modeler and the later GSP1101. I need to see if I can find my J-station and try it with an IR loader to see how it fares.

 

[japetus]

When I got my J-Station, one of my bandmates at the time had the POD 2.0. We compared the units and found that the J-station was better in most areas, with the exception of the compressor. I think the units of the time sounded best with the speaker simulation off and into the effects return of an amp though. Cabinet emulation has historically been and continues to be a weak spot in many of the digital modelers. The Line 6 POD 2.0 won the marketing war. I also owned a Behringer V-Amp 2, which seemed like a blatant clone of the POD 2.0 and I also owned the Vox Tonelab LE which sounded pretty decent. I heard from a former Line 6 employee who worked during that period that Vox licensed the POD 2.0 modeling for the tonelabs. The POD XT bean replaced my J-station for direct recording, but honestly the tones were not much improved.

The johnson stuff seemed to be better than its competitors though and I think that much of what they did was rolled into the Digitech Genesis modeler and the later GSP1101. I need to see if I can find my J-station and try it with an IR loader to see how it fares.

JBT and I were discussing this earlier. I found the Johnson stuff to sound better. This was at Mars Music when I was young, hanging around like a geek, playing everything.

 

[grimmchaos]

Those were always cool and sounded really good... were they the ones that liked to burst into flames as well? Or was that another Johnson product?

 

[70 Mach 1]

Wow. I never heard of the brand.
Post some clips and not that overly distorted bullshit. I want clean

 

[kurtsstuff2003]

I used to trade off weekends playing at a Red Lion here in town with a buddy of mine. All I had to do was show up with my guitar and use his rig and his "rig" consisted of what I think was a Johnson JT50 and floorboard. It wasn't bad at all or at least wasn't terrible..lol!!