Johnson J Station

[RevoltStudios]

I recently got one of these in a trade and wondered if anybody had heard/used one? It came with a manual and nothing more. Manual is....shoddy at best.

 

[PhilTheBeard]

We have one of those brand new at my store. i know one of my co workers loves it for his 80's metal stuff.

 

[BrettT]

I think Jarzombek may have used a J-Station for guitars on the Blotted Science album, FWIW.

 

[MindsinK]

For the price, they're pretty solid... I use it for practice.

 

[botus99]

I used one for years when I was recording onto an 8-track minidisc machine and had no good amps to use. Its impression after years of use: ehhhh, better left in the closet. Its tones were worse than the original POD's (which that's tone still had some major improvements to be made)

 

[CatharsisStudios]

first mnemic cd

 

[hoehlentroll]

shittiest piece of crap ever build! I'm glad I could sell it back then!

 

[BLUElightCory]

We used to stock those back when I was a 19 year old Guitar Center employee. It was basically supposed to be a "POD-killer" but we all know how that turned out.

 

[-J-]

if this is the backbone of the millenium amp, that doesn't say too much.

for what it's worth, I do recall someone on some board saying it had a good [something] emulator. I want to say it was either a jcm 800 or rectifier, which are probably the 2 you'd likely first test out anyway, hehe.

 

[kaomao]

well it sounded better than pod 2.0, but of course new modellers like podxt were a lot better

 

[botus99]

for what it's worth, I do recall someone on some board saying it had a good [something] emulator. I want to say it was either a jcm 800 or rectifier, which are probably the 2 you'd likely first test out anyway, hehe.

The jcm (or maybe it was just some other marshall ampsim?) sounded pretty ok from what I remember. The rectifier had a good creamy tone similar to a rectifier but in a category of its own in the same respect. Might work for leads, but overall, the dynamics of the J-Station are what strayed me away. Free VST ampsims are MILES ahead of the J-Station in tone and dynamics

 

[hoehlentroll]

well it sounded better than pod 2.0, but of course new modellers like podxt were a lot better

The jcm (or maybe it was just some other marshall ampsim?) sounded pretty ok from what I remember. The rectifier had a good creamy tone similar to a rectifier but in a category of its own in the same respect. Might work for leads, but overall, the dynamics of the J-Station are what strayed me away. Free VST ampsims are MILES ahead of the J-Station in tone and dynamics

c'mon guys it sounded horrible! has someone got any clips ?
EDIT: http://www.johnson-amp.com/jstationsnd.htm

 

[Fredrik-Ablaze]

its truly awesome for bass!

 

[chdrummer]

it looks shitty as fuck haha

 

[kaomao]

c'mon guys it sounded horrible! has someone got any clips ?
EDIT: http://www.johnson-amp.com/jstationsnd.htm

Well I played with it a lot and I tell ya, compared to the old POD 2.0 it was better.
By the way I think of course it sounded like shit, never liked it, but it was still better than that piece of mud that pod 2.0 was.

 

[hoehlentroll]

@Fred: everything is truly awsome for bass!
@maurizio: I certainly can agree to that! both of them had the sound of the new pocket pod, which really sucks

 

[RemoWilliams]

I remember seeing Dark Tranquility using them live back in '06. They had them sitting on top of turned off Rectifier's. The tone was a bit...lackluster.