4 Great Tones With The Fender Blues Junior…..No Pedals Allowed!
4 Great Tones With The Fender Blues Junior…..No Pedals Allowed!@crossroadbluessecrets
In this video I’ll try and re-create 4 Legendary blues tones with the Fender Blues Junior but just with the amp….No pedals allowed!
0:00 The Beloved Blues Junior
0:32 Jimi Hendrix – Red House
1:26 Red House Tone Settings
2:02 Peter Green – Need Your Love So Bad
2:46 Need Your Love So Bad – Tone Settings
3:21 Albert King – You’re Gonna Need Me
4:03 You’re Gonna Need Me – Tone Settings
4:44 Stevie Ray Vaughan – Pride & Joy
5:29 Pride & Joy – Tone Settings
6:16 See You Next Week!
The settings on my guitar were;
Red House – Neck Pickup – Volume 8
Peter Green – Pickup – Position 2 – Volume 10
Albert King – Pickup Bridge – Volume 10 – Tone Controls 10
SRV – Neck Pickup Volume 7
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Originally posted by UCTig19a3DuJnXBdJZIRhtOA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp_R7DoXxJY
Great stuff! Would love to see you do the same with Blues Junior tones using a Les Paul.
Le bonjour de la France ???????? super vidéo qui me plait car je viens d acheter un fender blues junior
Yes is a very honest Fendery Sound, mine have some tweeks, and is one of my favorite Amps, i use a Preamp pedal, to low Volume, bedroom level
They killed it on this one
Music name??
who knew? the blues junior is great for blues lol
Just got the 75th Anniversary lacquered tweed Blues Junior. I believe it’s a IV.
My question is, if I’m playing in an apartment, and I want to get the red house tone like you did, which volume knob would I adjust to bedroom levels? I’m assuming it’s the regular volume knob and that I’m meant to keep the master at 11ish. Yeah?
Similarly, for the Peter Green tone, which knob would I adjust?
I have 2 Blues Juniors. One tweed, one black, both 1st gen (USA made). I think these are the best amp Fender has made since pre-CBS. I use an older PRS McCarty with Seymour Duncun Antiquety P 90's with these amps. STUNNING!
I own a made in USA model with black tolex. Nice amp, covers gigs with great tone.
Los Angeles
Can it get a Robert Cray or Jimmie vaughan tone?
I can’t imagine how loud that must be…I’ve never got above 3-4
It sounds absolutely shit. No beef. No substance. Just ear-piercing treble. I hate that sound. Just thin.
I think a basic rule while playing a blues junior, escpeially tweed, is to scoop the mids (like at 2). It really opens up and sounds less boxy. At least for me
Thank you great video, 4 helpful reference guitar sounds using the fender blues junior.
Thank you
To’ work the amp in its sweet spot you’ve got to crank both the pre- and the power amp to 12, switch off the fat-switch and turn down the mids to 2-3 maximum and work the rest with your guitar volume/tone knobs. And yes, it’s insanely loud, like all fender amps.
Nice but without an attenuator these settings would melt the walls and deafen anyone within 100yds…
I don’t know how I missed this video but I’m tuned in now dude! Thank you!!!
Red Hose sounded good – the rest sounded tinny and kinda cheap.
What version of the Blues Jr. is yours?
You possibly should have said something about the overall volume in the room which these settings produce – with that sort of Hendrixy first sound you had the Master on 11 and Volume (which is sort of "Pre") on 8. I'm actually pretty confident my bandmates would consider killing me if I cranked my BJ to these settings in our rehearsal room…
That being said I do think resp. even positively now that cranking the Blues Junior’s Master to somewhere between 10 and 12 is a good way to go get the amp to respond really dynamically to the pick an to get a really "solid" tone (even if that means you have to set the normal Volume/Pre to just 3 or 4 to avoid being too loud for your bandmates wellbeing). However, you'll then have to use some overdrive or distortion pedal for a certain amount of grid. But that's not bad either, as you can easily dial in the right – possibly not that much – amount of overdrive on the pedal without affecting the overall loudness so much.
If you listen closely to many Blues guys who have a seemingly "hefty" tone, you may find that they actually don't have THAT much distortion and compression at all. There is a certain solidness of tone that springs very much rom driving the power tubes sufficiently (i.e. setting the Master high enough).
Definitely my next amp ‼️????
You talk to much
I find the amp ridiculously loud for home use.
Not terribly important but did you remove2 screws from trem making it 4 point? Interesting setup choice?. Video very helpful
My Fender Blues Jriii Royal Blood factory Greenback is a beautiful sounding amp. Clean or with pedals. The cleans are absolutely sweet. It is in excellent condition with all tags and paperwork from new. If I were to sell what do you think I should price it? I don't jam or play with a band and thinking a smaller practice amp will be suffice now.
Thanks in advance.
???? I thought SRV played mostly in the neck pickup, especially Pride and Joy
I find the amp much easier to set when NOT engaging the fat switch . I’m pretty sure the reverb is also a 2 and not a 3 as many fenders are,so much more pleasing to the ear .
Nice video man. Helpede. I habe BJ and I love that amp. Cheers from Czech Republic. Pretty nice tips.
Red House and Pride and Joy tone nailed. Just got one of these amps – still figuring it out. Love it so far. But does require some thought and tweaking of settings.
You weren’t on the neck pickup man!
i love blues juniors but a different speaker and prescence mod turned mine into a beast
The amp settings are good advice but what are your guitar volume and tone settings. Without those it kinda makes the amp settings irrelevant. I don't mean to be critical of your vids which I enjoy but I find that guitar settings are very important.
Great video! I just got a new Blues Junior and am just starting to play around with it. This really helped.
Peter Green sound was a little bit thin in my opinion!
Good playing though!
Hi John
Great sounds from the Blues Junior. I’m looking at one of these for bluesy cleans. Good stuff. ????????????
Cool video John. How many DB do you think it made it up to? I live in an apartment; I'm considering getting an attenuator to get it to that "explode" sound, without getting kicked out lol.
Thanks a lot for the video, John. I'll try to get similar tones on my blackstar ht -1mk2, although without full EQ it will be difficult. And I will save up for Blues Junior))
Due to inflation your amp now needs to go to 12 ????
Great amp, enjoy!