JVM410H sounding thin?

[Mats A]

Played my JVM410H tonight and thought it was sounding thin. One thing is that you can´t turn the gain on OD1 orange past 6 or you get way too much distortion. Maybe that is one of the reasons. Tried OD1 green but that mode got too little gain even with gain on 10.

[spikei]

For me the JVM gain on OD 1 or 2 works best with the gain on 2 to 3 on the dial, Mid at 8, bas 5, tre 5, pre 4, res 2 that should give you a great tone and not thin, if it is you have res and bass to play with. the trick with this amp is to keep the gain down on the OD channels. i also prefer it through V30s. great amp.

[Mats A]

I got both a V30 and a Greeenback cab. I almost think there is too much gain on 3. If you turn down the gain too much the tone gets lost i think.

-- Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:15 am --

Watched a dvd with Tesla where Frank Hannon is using a JVM410H and i don´t like his tone there. Too much distortion and kind of thin. But the other guy Rude i think is using a 90´s black Slash first signature Jubilee amp as it seems to look like and he also gets a thin tone. But he is sounding cleaner and not overly gainy sounding. From the cabs it seems that both are using 1960X Greenbacks.

[Onza_Jk]

Yeah once you get past 12 o clock on or so on the gain it starts to get quite compressed, it does have it's uses for modern players i guess.
I've heard people removing the bright cap on the JVM over at the JVM forums, they were happy with the results.

[Mats A]

Well i sold it today there is too much gain for me to get a good fat distortion tone on it. There is a guy selling a JCM800 2205 maybe i will try that. Maybe my AFD and YJM is enough but sometimes i need an amp with a clean channel. Still the 2205 has not got the best clean channel maybe but it will do for me.

[romeomotive]

The JVM410h can sound a little bit thin when compared to say the YJM side-by-side. The only channel I use a lot of gain on is the crunch channel, 3/4 of the way up. All other channels gain at 1/4. Also I keep the resonance on 6 and prescence on 4 to keep some low end. This helps a lot. The best cab I ever used with this amp was an oversized Mode 4 cab with V30s and G12-75s mixed. That cab BOOMED. I don't think I would sell this amp unless a 50th anniversary amp had 4 channels with a slightly better tone.

romeomotive