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jcmtone1
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Has anyone ever owned a Lee Jackson amp? What are your opinions on the amp?
Code001
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Hit or Miss
Tnjpekar
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not a lee jackson per se, but an ampeg vl502 which is a lee jackson design
amp is killer, great metal machine and the clean channel does the jcm800 thing really well.
did the clips here with it
https://www.myspace.com/themidnightbluesband1
amp is killer, great metal machine and the clean channel does the jcm800 thing really well.
did the clips here with it
https://www.myspace.com/themidnightbluesband1
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racer_j
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I have a Metaltronix by Lee Jackson. It's ok. I tried it with 6550s but then changed it back to el34s, liked it better that way. I have a Marshall 800 and pretty much dialed in the M-1000 to sound as close to that as I could and boosted it with an SD-1 and never really messed with it after that.
So overall it's ok, nothing to write home about. I remember in the '80s when they came out they had Gilbert and Wylde plus some others and I had to have one. Found one a few years ago for $400 and thought why not.
J.
So overall it's ok, nothing to write home about. I remember in the '80s when they came out they had Gilbert and Wylde plus some others and I had to have one. Found one a few years ago for $400 and thought why not.
J.
bravedude2
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JTyson
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I had 2 of the Metaltronix heads when they were first released, They simply would not hold up for me, had nothing but trouble with them, and they were noisy. His later stuff is more reliable I hear
SQUAREHEAD
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Had one in the mid 90's...
POS amp in my opinion.
Trouble, and very unreliable!
Keith
POS amp in my opinion.
Trouble, and very unreliable!
Keith
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Anonymous
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Lee put a tube buffered effects loop that I could adjust the signal level with in one of my Jose Arredondo modded Marshalls in '85 or so and he did a great job. Jose wouldn't do one for me like that. Never dealt with any of Lee's amps or mods - nice guy though...
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SeaDog
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I had a Metaltronix m-1000 and worked at a store that sold them in the early 90's. Amp could be made to sound like Ozzy's no rest for the wicked very easily. It also could sound like the first Mr. Big album, which I thought the tone sucked on that one by the way. What I wanted it to sound like it couldn't seem to do, and that was to sound like the racer x stuff on the first and some of the second album.
I had a friend that had a marshall 50 watt modified by Lee that could could cop the heart of a lion sound perfectly, but I could never get that from the Metaltronix. I had it for about six months and after the second transform blow-up I got rid of it. I don't blame the amp on the blow-up, I think that it was so loud that it damaged several speakers in my stack which f'ed up the impendence (I didn't find this out until after I got rid of the amp). I will say we had a lot of returns for problems with them at the beginning. Once the blue model came out they seemed to be fine. I did try out the ampeg versions some time later and thought that they actually sounded better, but I've never used one enough to say for sure.
I eventually traded some gear to my friend to get the PG mod Marshall 50 watt which I still have today sitting lonely in the unused gear pile (although it does sound cool).
I had a friend that had a marshall 50 watt modified by Lee that could could cop the heart of a lion sound perfectly, but I could never get that from the Metaltronix. I had it for about six months and after the second transform blow-up I got rid of it. I don't blame the amp on the blow-up, I think that it was so loud that it damaged several speakers in my stack which f'ed up the impendence (I didn't find this out until after I got rid of the amp). I will say we had a lot of returns for problems with them at the beginning. Once the blue model came out they seemed to be fine. I did try out the ampeg versions some time later and thought that they actually sounded better, but I've never used one enough to say for sure.
I eventually traded some gear to my friend to get the PG mod Marshall 50 watt which I still have today sitting lonely in the unused gear pile (although it does sound cool).
Ampaddict
Well-known member
I've had good luck w/ my '76 Modded SL, I like it!