 PEAVEY JSX* GUITAR AMP WINS GUITAR PLAYER EDITORS' PICK AWARDPeaveyPosted 2004-05-11 Guitar Player magazine honored the new Peavey JSX guitar amplifier head with its distinguished Editors' Pick Award in its May 2004 issue. Longtime gear critic Terry Buddingh praised the JSX for its ability to "(deliver) the goods with an uncommonly refined sense of articulation and authority."
Peavey and legendary six-string virtuoso Joe Satriani designed the JSX to give the widest range of EQ options and gain structures possible in a single guitar amplifier. Work on the amp began with the Clean channel, which Satriani wanted to be lively with a flexible EQ but, most importantly, free of any distortion.
"Even when pummeled with high-output humbuckers, the JSX's Clean channel is absolutely uncrushable," Buddingh attested. "(It) can absorb the most brutal pounding, yet it still sounds lively and colorful for sweet fingerpicking or frantic tapping."
The Crunch and Ultra channels, respectively, offer "articulate high-gain tones that are dynamically responsive" and "plenty of burning sustain while remaining defined, percussive and dynamic," said Buddingh. On the latter, he points out the "difference between amps that sound like compressed mush and those that can effectively communicate in a concert environment," adding that this power and articulation is the essence of the JSX. "(This amp) is designed to communicate with the audience, not simply flatter the player with smoothed-over schmutz."
Buddingh also praised the Fat switches on the Crunch and Ultra channels, which Peavey added to give lean-sounding pickups extra low end. "The Fat switch works especially well with single-coil pickups, as it enhances low-end body and girth without sounding mushy or boomy. Every guitar I tried sounded firm, focused and precise." The JSX also includes a fully adjustable noise gate on these channels, as well as global resonance and presence controls.
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