Hello, I’m thinking about buying a Blues Junior 3 for a practice amp, and as we know, the BJ amps don’t sound that great with the stock lightning bolt Eminence speaker. I don’t use effects boxes, as I feel that they interfere with the natural goodness of my pickups (Lollar Vintage T in my Tele, Vintage Vibe in my Strat, and Fralin p90s in my Epi 335. Pickups for all three guitars have stock winding and are all touch sensitive. I like a clean rhythm sound, and for soloing I turn the guitar volume up all the way to get that sweet over-drive from the pickups and the amp. It’s hard to really tell what a speaker sounds like just from listening to a sound sample on a website, but I must say that going from what I’ve heard the G12C/S might be a good choice for me.
Any thoughts ?
Thanks!
Maybe … The G12C/S will certainly make the amp a LOT warmer … almost “tweed” era warm. If that’s your thing, go for it!
My general recommendation, is always the ET65 … it’ll also warm it up, but retain more blackface era top end.
Oh … and stick with a medium magnet speaker … the heavy (big) magnets like a Reaper end up pressed right against the EL84’s in a Blues Jr!