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Guitar Tube Amplifier >Soundfiles & Videos New Vintage Series - handwired - point to point
New model with JTA-45 Sound at a volume level suitable for small clubs. "You are too loud?" I bet every guitar player knows this tune from his colleagues at The JTA-15 is a professional, all handwired amplifier that also got a convincing CLEAN 
EUR 1.098,00 Price outside EU excl. 19% VAT EUR 922,00 USD 1.198,00 All prices plus shipment: Europe 25 Euro - Worldwide 60 Euro
Sound Control: Bass, Middle, Trebl Master Volume Technical Data: Tubes: 2 x ECC83, 1x ECC82, 2x EL84 Tolex Color: Black Weight: approx. 11 kg  Backside 3 Speaker-Outputs: 4 - 8 - 16 Ohm Additional Line Out Tuning tested We did, before shipping out the first amps, test different brands of tubes and thus still improve the sound of the JTA-15 by maybe 10%. We did find out the best power tube setting this way for instance and also the best sounding preamp tubes. We shipped this max level setting then. After that we asked a technician to tune the JTA-15 to find out if there still was some room for improvement. Original MUSTARD Capacitors from the 60s were used for instance. Comparing a stock amplifier with this tuned version was in fact astonishing: The stock JTA-15 with that optimised tube setting sounded much better than the tuned version with the 60s MUSTARDS. With our original capacitors the amps sounds great. In other words: Tuning is not necessary. For the review in the Gitarre & Bass magazine the normal stock amplifier was used.  Review Cream JTA-15 Gitarre & Bass Magazine - Issue 10/2011 (excerpts) The promised intention of the maker of the JTA-15 to offer an alternative for the JTA-45, but just with a lower volume level, became apparent in our test. The JTA-15 in fact sounds like a ?small? JTA-45 and not like any new 18W product. Especially the warm and clean basic tone was convincing right from the start. At Volume levels up to 4, the tone always stays clean and warm with the stock (ECC 82) topboost valve. The class A circuit gives a pleasant compression and singing single notes, that also cut through in melodies. Only if you hit the strings harder, a smacking attack gets added on top of every note. If you turn the JTA-15 up completely you get power- chords, that you seldom get out of any JTM-45, as with the JTA-15 the tone stays crisp and contured with lots of middle at all times. If you turn the master volume down, the sounds becomes It is absolutely easy to get all nuances from clean, crunch and heavy distortion out of this amp. With a ECC83 put in the topboost channel, the distortion becomes even more juicy and fat and you find yourself in the AC/DC region somehow, ready to really rock the house at a moderate volume level. The most tempting thing about this new amplifier is the fact, that you can rock & roll without any kind of bad conscience and without being afraid of annoying the neighbours or your fellow musicians and still go strong with that exquisite late sixties Blues-Rock sound à la Clapton, Gary Moore or Banamassa. |
