New series From Mesa Of Petrucci Demoing The JP-2C On Stage

[milin_im]

I think you can get a Mark IV to sound like any of those tones, but it's just not as versatile.

Here he is in 2007 with Mark IV's.

The tones from Petrucci on this video is probably my favorite live one of his. But I think he was boosting the crap out of the Mark IV, and was using EL34 on the Class A sockets. I believe that for that video he was using a Zakk Wylde OD for his crunch rhythm, and a Keeley modded TS9 for the leads. I'm not saying that the Mark IV needs to be boosted IMO, but I think that that's the way he was using them at the time. And in his current rig he has a Keeley Red Dirt as a boost that I don't know when he uses it, but obviously that he's not using it on the Mesa videos.

 

[LP Freak]

It does sound good. The shred mode hurt my ears at least through the head phones I'm using (something with the high frequency content was no bueno), but I wouldn't have to use it.

But wow that was not "crunch." But was gainy metal stuff. Can this actually do a milder OD style crunch? Obviously it won't sound like a Marshall 2203/2204, but can it pull off something in the realm of lower OD?

It can easily do crunch tones, that's how I run mine and it sounds great.

 

[peterc52]

It does sound good. The shred mode hurt my ears at least through the head phones I'm using (something with the high frequency content was no bueno), but I wouldn't have to use it.

But wow that was not "crunch." But was gainy metal stuff. Can this actually do a milder OD style crunch? Obviously it won't sound like a Marshall 2203/2204, but can it pull off something in the realm of lower OD?

It can easily do crunch tones, that's how I run mine and it sounds great.

Clipz!!

 

[JMMP]

I liked the solo and shred video. The cleans sound like every other clean sound he has had. That rhythm video tone sounds very close to his TriAxis rig, which IMO, was muddy and definitely not his best. That Mark IV demo video is the tone by which I compare every other tone (as well as the live LTE video from 2007). He has had some great tones for sure.

 

[Chester Nimitz]

This was John's bAst rig ...

 

[LP Freak]

It does sound good. The shred mode hurt my ears at least through the head phones I'm using (something with the high frequency content was no bueno), but I wouldn't have to use it.

But wow that was not "crunch." But was gainy metal stuff. Can this actually do a milder OD style crunch? Obviously it won't sound like a Marshall 2203/2204, but can it pull off something in the realm of lower OD?

It can easily do crunch tones, that's how I run mine and it sounds great.

Clipz!!

Maybe I'll throw something together this weekend if I have time

 

[zewango]

Here is a clip from last week. JP2C doing some Judas Priest - Raw Deal from Sin After Sin. Doing more classic metal tonez. Audio is from the camera.

 

[gtrwun]

Here is a clip from last week. JP2C doing some Judas Priest - Raw Deal from Sin After Sin. Doing more classic metal tonez. Audio is from the camera.

That sounded great man. Really cool. You guys dug pretty deep into the catalog to pull that tune out. I'm impressed.

 

[zewango]

Thanks! We stick to the OLD classic Priest tunes. Really digging the JP2C.

 

[JackBootedThug]

to me that crunch channel was awesome. total win. the only thing that would be better than one of them would be two so you could go stereo.

 

[shredi knight]

But wait, there's more (tone's a little too scooped for my taste, but still sounds better than the original demo - IMHO


Petrucci demos the JP-2C at Reverb.com:

Added this to my OP as well.