Blues junior cracked rib

It is aimed at achieving the warm, tubedriven tone common in many styles of american blues and blues rock dating back to the 1950s, while remaining both portable and affordable. Fender 68 princeton reverb vs the vox ac10c1 amplifier. Change your fender blues junior iii speaker youtube. The ocillation goes away when i remove the pi tube. While there are many potential choices, i narrow it down to the following 3 based on the factors that i have listed down in the later sections. First impression was i was over the moon with the clean sound. I tried swapping around the v1v3 tubes, but this doesnt seem to help. Sep 23, 2012 are the horror stories about a blues jr. This warmtoned favorite takes our 15watt, tube preamp and power amp platform and pushes it through a 12 fender special design speaker. The most recent incarnations of noel gallaghers guitar rig have all been centered on a standard looking blues junior. In this video i upgrade the tubes in my blues junior to tube amp doctor.

I found that pushing up on the bracket that holds my el84 tubes when the cracking happen, it stops it. This video guide will show you how easy it is to change a fender blues jr iii speaker. While it is dressed that way it is nothing like a tweed. Fender special run blues junior amp the fender blues jr. Lets take a closer lookat the fender blues junior, and how you can make this amp sing. Ryan oreilly had cracked rib during dominant playoff run.

Even on this reengineered rerelease fairly well done, by the way the ma rainey timbre of junior s blues is special. Fender blues jr vs pro jr fender stratocaster guitar forum. Its golden tones are generated by an alltube signal path using a pair of el84 output tubes and 3 12ax7 preamp tubes. May 22, 2016 firstly the pro junior iii is an even smallersimpler amp than the blues junior iii. I prefer the blues junior iii over the other versions. These forums were a lively place for discussion for many years. Hi guys and gals, when i did my shaft mod, i unplugged of course, opened up the back, discharged the powersee bills explaination how to do this elsewhere on the siteand slid my finger under each pot as i was pushing the knobs back on, you may need to push a little and wiggle the knob a little to get the larger ring down inside the faceplate, so support the pot from underneath before. Fun, real chimey, real clear, plenty of treble, surfy, warmed up nice with the amps tone knob or guitars tone knob rolled off. It only has a two controls, volume and master tone. After all these years, cliff ronning lets us in on a secret that speaks glowingly of trevor lindens competitiveness and tenacity.

Having a broken rib, i should be back doing a little more here in about a week or two, and then hopefully have some answers on when the season starts. This kit is for every version of the blues junior, tweed, black, brown, made in usa and made in mexico. I considered all alternatives which are available, this, or the ac4c1 bl, but of course the sound which i really like is the blues jr, i dont know if the ac4 is any good as this. In case your amplifier has no fx loop, then try to connect some points on the signal path to ground to find the hum noise source as what i have done with fender pro junior. Here are 3 replacement speakers that i think are going to spice up your playing. The junior s fendermeetsvox sparkling highend and fat midrange make both single coils and humbuckers positively sing. It wont hurt to play the amp, but you will either have limited control or no control over the tone.

You dont know this, but trevor linden had cracked ribs and torn rib cartilage for the last four games of. Shrewsbury ribs n blues festival chathamkents annual. Some can even last 10 years if they are well taken care of. This is a shootout between the vox ac10c1 and the fender princeton. The pro jr had a good clean sound and when i turned it up i loved the overdrive. It can be as clean as can be or have just the right amount of distortion dialed in. Ryan oreilly was playing with cracked ribs, an injury he sustained in the first round.

However, it is always a good idea to give the amp a. Opinion grading the 201819 stanley cup champion st. Austin blues pecanwood smoked rib tips, sliced, 45 lb. I have the ds1 selfmodded to keeley ultrasem, but i cant seem to get a decent distortion out of my new blues junior. I replaced all the ribbon cables with 22 awg 600v wire. I also do some before and after sound tests so you can see the difference. Came from the factory with bright red tolex, cream chicken head knobs and a celestion vint. The other failure i see on newish blues juniors is the 22uf filter caps leaking. I wont be much help, but my new blues junior started getting a crackling noise and it turned out to be the tube sockets. Its a trade that has worked out perfect for both sides after a stanley cup victory. Cream board phase inverter oscillation billm audio blues.

Fully cooked loin back pork ribs are rubbed with a bbq seasoning and naturally hardwood smoked for hours. The blues junior is widely known for running the tubes hot and, in some cases, shortening their lives unnecessarily. Last night, my friends and me jammed at his place and my blues junior fit in just fine. Alligator records genuine houserockin music since 1971.

Natural smoke flavor and appearance allows any operator to menu genuine smoked barbeque. We would like to thank the thousands of users who participated actively in the fender. The amp burnt up one power tube already and after i raised the bias voltage so. Compact size, professional tone, and traditional styling make the fender blues junior ideal for rehearsal, backstage warmup, and. Jan 08, 2015 there used to be a great little website with a database of blues jr settings, but it seems to have gone offline so i uploaded my copy of the pdf file from that site and you can download these blues jr settings any time you want now admittedly i dont like to run my blues jr. And with the onboard reverb, and fat switch, finding a likable tone is easy. A true classic, with that latenight blues tone found nowhere else but in a fender. Only half of v2 is used unless you have the cathode follower mod.

Blues jr tweed vs 65 deluxe reverb reissue my les paul forum. How to repair noise fender blues jr el84 tube guitar combo. Tubes were shot, microphonic, running hot, hum, hiss, pops, you name it. Well, after having done the basic mods on my blues junior ii, upgraded the output transformer, changed the master volume taper, replaced the broken stock reverb tank with the ruby tubes model and changed the reverb taper and added the presence control, i was impressed with the improvements. I have to replace the 12ax7 pres and both of the el84s to get her back up and running, and figured while i was at it, that i would replace some of the other stuff in her too. Canadas rejigged junior curling schedule opens door to beijing for some athletes. Problem with fender blues jr amp by wheelisb tue may 21, 20 12. How colton parayko became the blues best kept secret. It features 15 watts of tube el84 power, and it has a single channel with basic eq as well as a fat switch which pumps up the midrange and gain a bit and onboard reverb as well. Blues rode binnington, oreilly to first stanley cup title. It really is not too loud at all or useless at low volumes.

Oreilly had cracked rib during dominant playoff run. The only infant mortality failure that i can think of on the blues junior is the broken wire inside the reverb tank. Fender forums view topic which artists have used the. Louis fifty previous times, blues seasons have ended short of where they wanted to be. My blues junior amp about 3 years old has a loud hum heres what i know. There are many amp techs who offer mods aimed at changing the bias, cooling the power tubes and extending their lives usually with no detrimental effect on sound. Need new blues junior schematic 103revc telecaster. The amp was lacking presenceresponsivenessmojo etc, it is all there now. The deluxe reverb has 2 true channels, lush reverb and tremolo,nice bottom end, is good in most band situations and is even good around the house.

I played through a deluxe reverb reissue last weekend and noticed a difference immediately. And theres some juicy prime rib here, or prime junior as it is. Fender limited edition texas red blues junior reverb. May 01, 2009 demonstration of the fender blues junior amp, one of my favorite little tube amps. Shrewsbury ribs n blues festival has both great music and great food. It doesnt really sound like a tweed or blackface fender, but it has its own cool sound. The fender blues junior is like a smaller version of the famed hot rod deluxe and deville amps, right down to the cosmetics. V2 reamplifies or recovers the signal lost in the tone stack.

After hooking them back up, everything worked fine. These amplifiers are very similar on paper but they sound quite a bit different to each other. Limited edition with a sunburst finish alright, so i have had my little workhorse amp for a couple of years now and when i had her running, she was great. Your blues junior has five tubes, v1 through v5, numbered right to left as you look at the back of the amp. Worse when volume knob is turned up as compared to master knob. The sizzling 1961 single messin with the kid is one of wells very best and most intense vocals performances, and the title track is a smouldering instrumental featuring slide guitarist earl hooker and its one.

Add our renowned fender reverb, flexible controls, and. What makes junior s music beautiful, to my ears, is the vocal quality of his playing, his unique touch on the keys. I thought the blues jr sounded like a practice amp. Jensen c12n in blues junior why so fizzy with od and. That being said, i did another little mod my blues jr. See uptodate pricelists and view recent announcements for this location. He was one bad dude, strutting across the stage like a harptoting gangster, mesmerizing the crowd with his toughguy antics and rib sticking chicago blues attack. If you are playing blues, you can definitely get some nice tones from the blues junior. The crappy black plastic sockets were replaced under warranty with more black plastic sockets, but that fixed the problem.

Some blues fans will no doubt own most if not all these tracks already. Austin blues bbq loin back ribs, 12 pc hormel foodservice. A green board blues junior came in the shop today and it is ocillating at about 40khz40 vac on the ot blue secondary and power tube plate. Older blues jr s that are made in the usa are all getting due to have their filter caps replaced and many of the current blues juniors made in mexico are known to have leaky filter caps. Unfollow fender blues junior amp to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. With the blues junior on a clean setting volume 34 with the master on around 4 i can easily be heard at rehearsals with a loud drummer, a bassist and a singer going through a full pa. The draft analyst has the eagles selecting oklahoma linebacker kenneth murray with the 21st. How often to replace tubes in blues jr music gear zone. Talk with your fellow tone freaks on the webs liveliest and friendliest. Only 800 of these were made, and theyre getting pretty hard to find. Chathamkents annual music festival featuring musicians from around the world. So hopefully i can just throw a new one in there and itll be ready to rock.

He runs it into a thd hotplate and then splits that signal into at least one more hotplate and three hitwatt speaker cabinets. It had as was described, the perfect, on the verge of breaking up tone. First a common misconception about the blues junior. Well, that can be said for all but one team each and every year. I have replaced all the tubes and used contact cleaner as well and it did not fix it. The blues junior is a tube guitar amplifier introduced in 1990 by the fender musical instrument corporation.

Ryan oreillys emotional and driven personality led him to being acquired by the st. Always gigging, always scuffling for recognition, playing in the shadows of the bigger names, but always tight and professional, whether in support of chicagos top blues and soul acts, or at the rib tips own shows at countless outoftheway lounges and tavernsa permanent. Explore 11 listings for fender blues junior uk at best prices. Amazingly, junior wells kept at precisely this sort of thing for over 40 years. Ive read a few threads about the blues jr, and ive seen your name come up a few times regarding great mods that can be done. If youre careful, you should be able to measure continuity using a multimeter. Biography for decades, the name scotty and the rib tips was an indelible part of chicagos black music scene. It stays in the closet most of the time except when my back is really hurting. Sep 24, 2014 accordingly, the big f has updated the format over the years, and the blues junior iii, launched in 2010, features a number of additions that have gone down well. How to fix fender pro junior guitar amp hum noise by.

Blues junior top panel functions blues juniortm introduction the fender blues junior is a truly professional, small, tube amplifier. This also applies to any and all older versions blues jr amplifier. But if youre looking for a good, inexpensive collection of some of both wells and guys music, this is a good place to start. Blues ryan oreilly played through rib injury maplehockey. Nugenthopkins to miss 56 weeks for oilers with cracked ribs. Aaron judge regrets rushing into offseason program amid. Hey, i wanted to update what ive done to my blues jr. Want to upgrade a speaker for your blues junior amp. Although still 15w, the pro junior iii only has an 10inch speaker, so it doesnt have the headroom or projection of the blues junior iii and therefore isnt feasible with a full band unless miced. A common misconception about the blues junior is that the blues junior basically a tweed type amp. He suffered the injury in the first round against the winnipeg jets, which the blues won in six games. Blues jr snap crackle and popping telecaster guitar. And so began the courting of colton parayko, a covert, subtle, seasonlong pursuit that ended with the blues drafting him in the third round in. On average, the average time to replace tubes in fender blues jr is around 6 months to two years.

Blues junior iii serie hot rod red hp eminence red coat. Gear fender blues junior tweed vs marshall dsl vs bassabreaker hi guys im having a bit of a dilema here, im going to buy my first valve amp and i dont know what to buy. Louis won the stanley cup on wednesday that he played with a cracked rib. When i checked inside all 3 springs were disconnected. Combined with my fender american original 50s strat, i couldnt ask for a better tone. When i first plugged my creamboard blues jr after ups dropped it off and probably dropped it 20 times prior to it arriving at my doorstep the reverb didnt work. Louis blues 41 win against the boston bruins in game 7 of the stanley cup final at td garden on wednesday gave them their first championship in their 51season history. Fender blues jr vs blues deluxe vs hot rod deville etc. The actual frequency depends on how often you played it and the length of each session. Lacquered tweed takes fenders 15w gem and gives it the true vintage treatment with a lacquered tweed covering and a vintagevoiced 12 jensen speaker.

Jun, 2019 the firstyear blue revealed to reporters after st. Rib tips come from the meaty portions of the sparerib. Blues junior made in usa or mexico page 1 joes guitars, amps and gear joe bonamassa forum the official forum for all things joe bonamassa, guitars and blues music. I cant think of another pianist, jazz or classical, who makes me hear words subliminally like junior mance. Why a fender blues junior does not sound like a vintage. I had the volume on 8, the master on 3, guitar on 10, and the fat switch on. Horrible distortion on both although the blues jr seems harder to crack. Spare headroom is also there if another guitarist came into the equation. All natural, fully cooked rib tips are rubbed with a savory bbq rub and then slowsmoked over 100% pecanwood for a deep smoked flavor and rich mahogany color. The blues junior and pro junior have plasticshaft potentiometers that are soldered to the board, but do not attach to the face plate with a nut. Blues junior iv with eminence red, white and blues speaker is the amp ive needed for a long time. Blues jams, spicy pork, ribs oh my abc 10cw 5 wbupwbkp.