Revisiting an old friend...

[Oldpunk]

...and one of the first unique 'hybrid' valve powered modelers, the JMD:1 50 (combo).

Shes been sitting collecting dust for a while now, got her years ago for cheap at a pawn shop for like 150 bucks. Her power tubes (EL34's) needed replacing. She never really was liked back in the day, not getting many favorable reviews. But as I plugged my go to old label PRS SE custom in, hit the standby and scrolled the knob through her different amp configs I thought...man, wow...not bad! Theres a few that stood out, the most surprising being the Mode four setting. Rich, powerful, smooth heavy saturated gains. Dropped down to D and was very impressed. Was so inspired I wrote a new tune in minutes out of the blue. Then there was the good old 2203, cant go wrong with that. Nice, very nice. A few others like the plexi/1974 clean setting werent bad at all as well.

I was thinking about getting rid of it, not that its worth much, but its just been sitting forever, taking a back seat to my DSL40 and even more so to the current USB-C modelers for direct to PC recordings. But come to think of it, I think I'll keep it. Just having another logo in the room along with its options, sound and novelty has sold me back. It's staying put.

 

[guitarbilly74]

These amp are very cool indeed! I'd love to pick up one the JMD heads when/if I find one at a good price. I don't think they made too many of them as they're hard to come by in the used market these days.

 

[LPMarshall hack]

I have a 100 watt head. I love it and gig with it often.

 

[Oldpunk]

These amp are very cool indeed! I'd love to pick up one the JMD heads when/if I find one at a good price. I don't think they made too many of them as they're hard to come by in the used market these days.

Yep I forgot how much I liked it before.

Youre right, just checked Reverb and theres just 2 listed, both 100 combo's. Rare indeed.