Lab Series too.

Can't believe no one ever took a run at that.

numberthirty wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 10:07 pm

Garth wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 3:55 pm

dfglv wrote: Lovetone

Wow, doing the Reverb look up and ALL the Lovetone stuff and looking at some of the prices in the range of Klons leads me to think that a reissue (or clone) is not that far-fetched. This really seems like something JHS would pounce on, they've been shameless about clones.

https://www.jhspedals.info/cheese-ball

well how 'bout that. I am pretty sure the only awareness I even had to Lovetone was seeing mention of them in one of the JHS videos so yup totally tracks. No beef though; a company that's completely defunct is fair game for cloning IMO. The Cheese Source is by no means the most expensive one they did at least not by Reverb prices anyway.

The Peavey phaser with the pull knob to stop the sweep like they had on the Mace

PEPPER! wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:47 pm The Peavey phaser with the pull knob to stop the sweep like they had on the Mace

1. Hell yeah.
2. For the price of a 'boutique' pedal you could probably just buy the amp on CL, rehouse the phaser circuit, and have a spare clean amp around.

With regard to the Lovetone stuff, AionFX has been going through the lovetone catalog and putting out DIY boards of everything (as well as Dan Coggins' other designs). If you know anyone who's savy with a soldering iron you could get them to knock a bunch together for you. I think they're relatively complex projects as they involve some biasing and calibrating, but still pretty doable for most hobbyists (like me).

I'm not necessarily a fan, but we were talking about what a specific flavor the Roland Jazz Chorus is at band practice the other night. I can't help but wonder if someone couldn't improve on the JC120 a little and knock them out for further under $1k than those tend to go for.

The preamp from an HH VS Musician would be lovely, with switchable Valve Sound and Light/Heavy Voice controls. I would absolutely buy this. 5 knobs, 3 switches.

Really just would like a simple analog line level hpf and lpf that can be used for tracking and mixing.

The closest thing I know of is a little API deal that’s still $500 a channel

losthighway wrote: Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:42 am I'm not necessarily a fan, but we were talking about what a specific flavor the Roland Jazz Chorus is at band practice the other night. I can't help but wonder if someone couldn't improve on the JC120 a little and knock them out for further under $1k than those tend to go for.

The newer jc-40 2x10s supposedly have a decent gain channel, which are a joke on the originals. I just think those went too far in the other direction wattage-wise.

I had a original JC-77 and I didn't hate the distortion, but for built-in crunch it was like "here's your one flavor". I feel like whatever that distortion knob did, you could do a lot better with something on your pedalboard that you like.

I also ended up giving the amp to a friend. I can use a boss-flavor pedal (Walrus Julia) into a clean Princeton and get like 80% there. There is something nice about the experiencing that dual-speaker effect in person though.

Might be fun to DIY a couple 1x10 cabs with 60w class D power amps in them as a clean stereo pedal platform that could, maybe, do that JC thing.