Jet City JCA100H 100w All Tube Head
Marc Johnson | Feb 26, 2010 | Comments 7
Jet City Amps – JCA100H
by Marc Johnson for TheToneKing.com
As most of you know, The Tone King only checks out gear that can be bought by a player whose pay is usually soaked in beer. So when an affordable 100w all-tube head walked through the door, we had to check it out. We were blown away when we heard that it was an amp with Soldano designed circuits.
Any player can tell you that the Soldano sound is one of the dominant sounds in rock. With musicians ranging from Eric Clapton to Warren Haynes and from bands ranging from Ratt to Van Halen, the Soldano sound tore through the 80s and slammed head first through the turn of the century. Now, Jet City Amps is launching their “Design by Soldano” lineup and the JCA100H is their “flagship” piece.
Co-founded by Mike Soldano, Jet City is boasting a true “all-tube signal path” for a meatier tone. The amp has two channels, neither of which is a “true” clean channel. This may be different for some players but will feel right at home for those players that like the dynamic of using their guitar’s volume knob to move from clean to crunch.
The “Normal” channel acts like any single channel amplifier. You can push the output to get a pounding gain, roll your volume back to get a warm clean tone, or keep it in-between for a bluesy boost. The “Overdrive” channel takes over where the other leaves off and gives you that extra gain for a really meaty punch or blistering leads.
The Soldano gain was easy to find and didn’t take to much time to dial in. Probably the thing that surprised us at TTK the most was how dynamic the amp was. The JCA100H easily gave us every sound that we would’ve expected from a Soldano amp.
Watch The Tone King’s Video Review here :
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Hey man! I have a question about tube amps. If you have the gain all the way up or close to it, and jam and gig with it like that, will you damage your amp? Or just wear of the tubes quicker?
ok should i trade my TH 30 ORANGE FOR JET CITY 100H.
I own a jet city jca20h, and I can certify that this soldano creation is without question a superb example of the finest amp DNA available to musicians at their listed price points. You would have to be an utter buffoon to know realize this. And, I’ve played them all, had them blow up during gigs, be brand new and fail. But Soldano in my estimation is without question the top of the food chain when it comes to amp design. Get one today and achieve your vision!!!
yeah thats a good amp!
if only they can do a little combo for my room!
maybe can you make a review of the combo ?
I’ve just noticed that the comments on the YouTube vid have gone away. What happened?
TK… I just love the crunch of this amp. It’s not over the top distortion,[and that's what I like] you can still
hear the guitar.
Great review, with all the knob tweaking & channel switching !
Sweet !!
Keep up the good work.
I suggest a comparison vid between the Jet City 100H and the Bugera 6260.