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Thank you for showing a Les Paul! I bought a Lumpy's Tone Bender, and it transformed my Blues Jr. into Pages Supro! BOOM! Instant Heartbreaker tone with a stock Les Paul Standard! When I used my Les Paul Custom with the Blues Jr. the bottom end would flub out. My Blues Jr. broke down and I haven't fixed it in a couple of years. I now run HX Stomp thru Monitors, and Ive never had a better sound!
Thank you Jack for all your videos !!! For my ears, the Supro is warmer, richer, tweedier !!!! More clarity, less muddy. The soud is personnal, i’m a Tweed lover and I prefer the Supro’s sound ❤️
This is exactly the video I've been wanting to watch. For me the Delta King blows away the Blues Jr but I'm pretty much always going to side with Supro for any comparison.
I’m another who is glad to see/hear this video. I have the Blues Jr with the Jensen C-12’s, currently my only amp. My gigging days are long behind me, so I rarely crank it past 3-4, but there’s always that little voice in the back of my head saying, “Yeah, but if you got invited on a gig, could you do it with this rig?” Well, listening to this comparison has me thinking “no”. I play a 60th Anniversary Strat and a PRS LP-type, depending on the style and tune… so I want an amp that can make sweet tones with both single-coil and humbuckers at the full volume range. To my ear, the Supro is MUCH sweeter and clearer than the Blues Jr, with much greater clarity at all frequencies. I can’t say I’ve driven my amp to feed back as badly as you did in this test, Jack, but to be honest I haven’t tried… and I don’t think I want to! I am going to have to seriously look into trading my Blues Jr in for a Supro!!
The truth is I would never use either of these cranked in any normal situation - I'm fine with the way they sound at live volume, but nowadays I always play mic'd up, which lets me run them lower and use pedals. I think thats the best either of them can sound to be honest.
I own a Delta King 12 and really like it - but I really don’t have a need to crank it that high. I tend to keep it cleaner and use drive pedals. I will say I liked the Strat with the Blues Junior better in this video.
I have both and while both are great I play with my Supro much more. It just feels classy to my ears . As one can see it’s a hard choice that’s why I eventually acquired both !
Thanks for the great video! I have been thinking of a tube amp to supplement by SS amps and considering both of these amps. I think the Supro sounds much better both clean and driven. The Fender just has a harshness to it that the Supro doesn't. For the music I play, the Supro would be the better choice.
Supro gets my vote based on note separation at max vol. The fender sounds muffled. I think small bottle amps always sound better at max when the guitar volume is on 8/9 vs 10. Supro for the win here.
To me, both amps sound pretty bad at high volume/gain. The Fender has bright, ambient cleans that fill the room whereas the Supro has a more dialed and tight tone when clean. I'd be curious to see the junior iv compared with the supro dk. I like the Fender but don't like the tin quality near breakup but that maybe goes away with the Cannabis Rex or Swamp Thang upgrade?
does anybody know a review of this amp checking out how loud it goes with a clean sound? I want to know if i can do gigs with a clean sound , loud enough so it can cut trough stage noise if it were to go trough a mic.
I'm not sure If I should be the one to say it, but since it seems like I'm the only one with these things in mind I'll go ahead and say it. Either you, "Budda" or anyone really, who is willing to compare a *Supro Delta King* and a *Fender Excelsior* 🤷
The tone stack is a bit better in the IV, and the reverb is noticeably better. But honestly, they’re both Blues Juniors and both have the same general tonal characteristics
All the latest Supros I've bought, I sent them back (ones built in China since 2020) because of reliability problems right out the box. The Amulet and Keeley 1970.. This wasn't the case with the ones built in the USA before 2020. I'm not the only one who has noticed this.. So better be very careful, they're built very poorly. I don't like saying this, but it's a fact.
I couldn't get a sound I liked out of my Blues Junior with any of my guitars and quickly sold it. It was harsh and unpleasant at any volume. May have been the Swamp Thang speaker. A Princeton solved that problem.
Fun video. But it's clear to me these amps weren't designed to be fully cranked. Wow what a fartfest 😄 Of the fully-cranked sounds, only the LP into the Blues Jr sounded remotely decent to me. But that's all good, most of us wouldn't use them this way anyway I imagine.
I definitely agree. I think the actual realistic tone is the gig level one at the beginning. There really aren't many instances in reality I'd ever totally crank either of these. Or almost any amp, for that matter.
@@JackFossett An old school Champ being the exception 😉 But it was really cool that you _did_ crank these! You don't see many people trying that on RU-vid, and I haven't yet played these amps. In a store I don't think I would dare crank 'em, so I really appreciate the fact that you shared that here.
