I've now had my first ever Tube Amp, a Jet City Amplification JCA22H with a JCA12S+ cabinet, for 24 hours, and I do not regret buying it! I've tried a lot of amplifiers, but nothing beats this one when it comes to value-to-price ratio. It lives up to my requirements and more. The fact that it sounds at least as good as a good old Marshall JCM800 or JCM900 only makes it even more amazing.

One thing that's a bit of a shame, though, is that it made my Overdrive and High-Gain Distortion pedals obsolete, since the amp's own gain sounds superior to both, and I needed some more space in my pedal-board anyway, so those two pedals went away, my TC Corona Chorus moved to the Effect Loop along with my new TC Flashback Delay and TC Ditto X2 Looper, and my Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi stayed right between my Wah and my Input-Jack. All my pedals fit in the suitcase-pedal-board now, until I add a Reverb next month... I'm considering buying a properly built pedals-board, though...

One of the improvements I really like, though, is that I can now actually hear my Chorus, unlike with the Mustang, where it went right in front of the Input-Jack, meaning that all the Chorus got distorted with the rest of the signal. That doesn't happen anymore, which I really like. This amp is the best thing that's happened to my tone since I switched pickups in the LP!

I also found out that the Oil City Pickups in my LP sound rediculously inspiring when run through this new amp... They were already pretty cool through the Mustang, but now... If they sounded lukewarm before, they sound like they're on fire now! I'm so glad I finally managed to find a good Tube-Amp that I could afford. I'm going to keep my Mustang around, though... I need a proper speaker for my computer while working on backing-tracks or jamming along to songs. And it's going to suck big time if I manage to burn the tubes before I get some spares, and I don't have a spare amp...

I'll try and see if I can figure out how to use the Looper to record stuff and play backing-tracks, and if I manage to find out how that works, I think it'll make recording stuff like improvised ideas and Riffs or Licks much easier... Maybe TC has some instructions on their website...