Stratoblaster
Fractal Fanatic
Last night I was auditioning amps after the v6 upgrade as I was finding all of them played and felt a bit different (due to the triode modeling/bias changes and amp interaction modeling changes/improvements) and stumbled upon the JS410 and instantly loved what I was hearing/feeling, particularly the Crunch Orange channel.
I was taken by how punchy, snarly, and dynamic that channel is, and there is something about the high end that, while "in your face" like Marshalls can have, is very sweet sounding. Playing an F# - E open string rhythm (ala UFO "Lights Out") has never jumped out so rudely on any Marshall/amp in the box for me. It's almost like a compressor was removed somewhere.
Man, I love the mid-gain, clean-ish punch that amp channel delivers in spades. I've not really bonded with this amp before but it has replaced the "5153 100W Blue" (which I've used for eons) for my 70's crunch tones, as well as my "AC/DC lead" tone and my single coil neck pickup bluesy tone. As soon as I switched to it I was all "whoa, what have we here now". Instant 70's Marshall vibe with modern tweaks to make it much easier to dial in.
I've also "upgraded" my main lead amp (Friedman HBE V2) to the "JS410 Lead Red" amp as I found it had a certain, fatter quality to the mids right out of the box that I had to coax out of the Friedman, and even then not as nice as the JS is.
There is some very cool mojo going on in v6, particularly in the Fender/Vox types amps. I was super stoked when I played my "Class-A 15W TB" preset. It has a certain creamy sound and feel that it never had before and I jammed on it for some time. All the amps just feel and play so much better and lively in v6.
Fantastic modeling update...definitely one for the books IMO.
I was taken by how punchy, snarly, and dynamic that channel is, and there is something about the high end that, while "in your face" like Marshalls can have, is very sweet sounding. Playing an F# - E open string rhythm (ala UFO "Lights Out") has never jumped out so rudely on any Marshall/amp in the box for me. It's almost like a compressor was removed somewhere.
Man, I love the mid-gain, clean-ish punch that amp channel delivers in spades. I've not really bonded with this amp before but it has replaced the "5153 100W Blue" (which I've used for eons) for my 70's crunch tones, as well as my "AC/DC lead" tone and my single coil neck pickup bluesy tone. As soon as I switched to it I was all "whoa, what have we here now". Instant 70's Marshall vibe with modern tweaks to make it much easier to dial in.
I've also "upgraded" my main lead amp (Friedman HBE V2) to the "JS410 Lead Red" amp as I found it had a certain, fatter quality to the mids right out of the box that I had to coax out of the Friedman, and even then not as nice as the JS is.
There is some very cool mojo going on in v6, particularly in the Fender/Vox types amps. I was super stoked when I played my "Class-A 15W TB" preset. It has a certain creamy sound and feel that it never had before and I jammed on it for some time. All the amps just feel and play so much better and lively in v6.
Fantastic modeling update...definitely one for the books IMO.