Trade in my Blues jr for the Super champ 2x Cab and head?

I use my BJIII in a loud 100 capacity club. I rarely have to go above 5 or 6 on the VOL and MASTER. Sounds glorious. ymmv...

 

Have used Bad Monkey, EHX Soul Food, RAT, EHX LPB-1, Big Muff, OCD, Fulldrive 2, TS-9, TIMMY, etc, etc...

I am of the unpopular opinion that drive pedals sound pretty much the same and work w/ most amps when you step back and get outta the weeds. Especially when on stage. Which is NOT to say that you shouldn’t choose your pedals carefully.

Does that make any sense?

 

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I think what works for me was just a lot of trial and error to find a sound that is good for the music that I like to play which is going to be either old school blues rock and roll not hard rock and let's say rockabilly and Country

It may have just been accidental many years ago but a boss Blues Driver is perfect for me
It has just the right distorted sound that you can feather in to a good clean tone and is very adjustable with your guitar volume knob so I leave it ON all the time

I usually set all three controls at noon but truthfully I set the gain on the pedal wherever I want to hear the most Distortion when I turn the guitar all the way up the game setting of the pedal will determine that and it cleans up so well so it's just a perfect fit for me not for everybody
It doesn't impose itself with mid-range like a tube screamer and it doesn't have a hard Distortion that you can't get rid of 1 even at low gain settings
Sorry for voice activation on my way to a gig yay

 

Not trying to cause unrest, but I really do not like the sound of EL84s and prefer octal output tubes for Fender amp sounds. Just saying.

 

The Junior is a far better amp. I had one of those Champs and could not get rid of it fast enough. Oust a good speaker and some JJ tubes with a 5751 in V1 and look out. That Junior will sing.

 

I would probably like the Blues Jr. better if the amp utilized a 6V6, 6L6 or 5881 octal tube. That would be a typical Fender output tube and a true Fender tone.

 

Responses are all over the place, which tells me it really comes down to personal preference. The suggestion to get the SC and keep the Bjr sounds good to me. I used to have a Blues jr... never really cared for it. I sounded good cranked, but didn't make a great practice amp. I have a SCX2 combo now and I love it! I put an old Jensen P10T in it that I had laying around, and it really sounds big compared to the stock speaker. I like the digital reverb better than the Blues Jr. small tank reverb.

 

Strange. Blues Jr.'s are plentiful, but I thought they held their value reasonably well, especially compared to some of the stellar but lesser known amps out there.

 

If in UK happy to swap my Super Champ X2 for a good condition Blues Junior.

it’s got a ragin cujan upgrade and an l-pad attenuator as well as some op-amp upgrades which lowered the noise floor a bit. Same tones as original, but with a bit more volume and bass as well as ability to attenuate for practice...

 

Tried them in a guitar shop. Not a fan of the amp but I like those cabs.