GUITAR TONE - Roland JC22 - Review & Sound Demo 

called the jc-22 for two reasons. jc-30 sounds too much like ac-30, so they used the rms power value; 30/√2 rounds up to 22W

You seem like a genuinely friendly guy. Thanks for the review, best one I've seen on the JC-22.

Thank you for not playing the blues during this demo.

Billy Duffy from The Cult has been using the Jazz Chorus for his clean tones for ages. Once you explained the Dimensional Chorus effect I immediately recognised this as the Billy Duffy tone that I've loved for decades. Cheers for a great in depth review. These amps really are the benchmark for solid state cleans.

this review is totally kickass- well done! not only do we get to hear the sounds but also you give us different ideas on micing up the amp to capture that awesome effect! Thank so much!

Sometimes I watch this video just to remember what a top-quality review looks like...Great review of a great product.

Wow great review, thanks!!! Most reviews of gear should be like these. You are setting the standard👍

Thank you for an excellent review. Very informative and helpful. The best and most professional that I have seen for the JC22.

This is the fifth review of this amp I've watched, and you are the first person who knows how to use chorus correctly. Well done, great playing and song choice, and the amp sounds amazing.

This is a great review one of the best i ve heard.. thanks so much for not using crunch sound with tone of effects like 99% of reviews do.. this amp has definetely one of the best clear sound you can hear from this range of amp.

Exceptional review, covered everything I needed to know, hit my guitars and you had serious enthusiasm going on. Best review I've seen on this amp, I now intend to buy one....thank-you!

Greetings from Northern Ireland. Great review and fantastic chops (as usual). It's the first proper review of an amp that I've never given a second glance. Many thanks.

this is sooooooo the best demo on this amp on youtube. THANK YOU!

one of the best amp reviews I've watched! Saw your channel after watching an OR15 review, as that's my main amp but have watched numerous now and they've all been great!

Finally I found a demo with two mics in order to talk about a stereo chorus..! Thanks a lot clever boy ;-) Thumb up!

Best gear demo that i have ever seen! Good job!

Wow, fantastic review! Really great run down of all the features and lovely playing. Would have been nice hear some od or distortion through it but I appreciate your using the stereo delay, some reviewers don't even do that. Thanks mate

Great video and playing! I love how you answered some of your own questions by talking through it.

My first amp in 1978 was the JC-120. It became a 40 year companion- amazing sound -very heavy amp I would lug it up/down 3rd floor stairway when going to rehearsals, gigs. Due to chronic illness I had to sell it a few years ago - but am looking at getting the JC-22 whenever I get better- Thx for the video! Cheers from Germany 🇩🇪

Thanks for taking the time to demo that amp. Great great review!!

Best review of the JC22 I have seen, please do some more reviews of affordable clean amps, your playing is fab.

This is amazing! Captain Drone is an accomplished musician too. You are a multitalented individual. I now have some more material to watch. Thanks for clueing me in. 😊

That Crowded House sounds incredible... well done sir!

Great sounding amp & excellent review! You did Martha (and her Muffins) justice.

Great review. Those amps are perfect for modeling units.

This is the only decent review/demo for this amp.Thank You!

A very nice review of the jc22.I happen to have a newer jc120 and these roland amps are terrific.My marshall amp is in cobwebs! Cheers.

Thanx for a good honest review. I liked your playing style but you emphasized the amp and that’s where this demo shines!

fantastic sound ! good to see you with the les Paul again !!! great video jamman. all the best jamman. crowded house a good choice Sir the chorus and Stereo make it sound divine. keep playing and thanks.

Nice review- loved the selection of guitars!

this is the best Roland JC 22 review out there, nice playing. Great explanation and demo of capabilities. great amp, perfect for home use, lush clean tones, and that chorus effect is the sound of the 80's.

Thanks, jAMMAN798. Putting these things on an amp is great. I have an 80's Roland Jazz Chorus-77 amp. Its 40+ years old, but it works well. Thanks again. Greg D.

That was a great demo! Thank you!

Sounds amazing, seriously tempted!

Great demo, good to hear some classic tunes in the process. Nice playing.

Great review! Really enjoyed it.

this was an awesome review you should have way more views

Great song choice for that chorus effect with Crowded House. A+

You mic'd it on each speakers. Good man.

Great review. I bought a JC 22 and now I know how to use it !

Great review and playing, thank you!

This is by far the best Review I´ve ever seen, thanks, man. The camera mic definitely recorded better the ambient and stereo effect. In the mics recording is nearly there, maybe a different mixing process would have make it more notorious. Anywhere, thanks!

I appreciate you playing examples with the room mic only. I know everyone wants to hear close mic examples because the sound quality is better, but you can’t get an accurate idea of what an amp sounds like in person if it’s close miked. A lot of small amps sound really boxy and terrible in person, but sound big and full if close miked, so I like demos that do both.

Okay, you sold me! Wow, what a sound! I've been trying to get this sound from other amps and haven't been able to come close. I've used the JC setting on the Roland Cubes, that's okay, the Line 6 Pod (the old bean style) on clean, that's okay but not really close. I play Ibanez hollowbodies, semi-hollow, and a Strat. Hope you upload a vid with this amp and a hollowbody, like Ibanez LGB30 or semi like Ibanez AS153 (my two fave guitars at the moment!). Thanks for a great demo!

Wow ! Great demo ! ! Nailed that " Police - Andy Summers jc 120 " sound ! :-)

This is such a great video 📹.. Well thought out

Nice tone, love the videos!

Thanks for a great little review, mate!

An excellent demonstration!

I’ve owned a JC-120, but had to sell it due to a move. That was followed by a JC-77, which I ended up selling, because of a move. Now I’m getting the smaller, more portable JC-22, and planning on staying put. You never know, you know? Nice review. Thanks.

Great review! Definitely thinking of buying one of these and a Boss Katana 100w Head MKII

great review! Thank you, Sir!

The next time I find 400 bucks rolling around in my wallet that isn’t earmarked for life’s essentials, BANG! JC-22, here I come.

Thank you so much for great review Man!

Great review. Too many videos they just paly and don't talk about what's happening and what they are hearing. great job!

excellent demo - just found your channel - very nice!

Easily my favourite amp. Such an iconic sound!❤

Hi Jamman, what a great video ! and also an amp i want myself !!!

Great demo! Thanks, bud

Thank you for a great review.

Really good review mate, thanks

Very Nice Demo, well explained!

Nice review man keep doing it for some amps and pedals and guitars, thanks!

Very nice demo! Thanks! Guessing they opted to call it JC22 because JC30 would sound too much like AC30 (Vox).

Thanks. One of the better demos of the JC 22, but I'd love to see how it sounds with some dirt pedals. I had a JC 120 years ago and I never found a way to get a usable overdriven tone from it.

Great demo!

Thanks! That's gonna be my next amp!

Nice work! Love that thing

When you play thru that amp I almost expect I’m gonna hear some Siouxsie and The Banshees

Absolutely great video no bullshit and very informative! Good playing too ❤

Put a little compression on the Strat and you´ve got The Police, Bryan Adams, Chris Isaak, Pink Floyd and just about every other major pop and pop- rock hit of the 80s with a clean guitar in it. That little thing is a beast ! Amazing tone. Especially for clean parts in metal,- it would be miles ahead of everything else in that genre when it comes to clean tone. I need one. Now !

Great Review.. Thanks

Great review, and playing… more than '...a huge lineage…' I think you meant '...a lineage of huge amps…' A friend kept offering me his phenomenal JC-120, but I couldn't even get it into my car! Other older JC's were cute, but didn't quite get that big thick clean sound, so I'm curious to find a JC-22 to try...

Sounds so good!

Great review!

Superb review, subbed.

They made a JC-20 which was 20 Watts and about the same size. Maybe it means JC-20, the sequel or JC-22.

a demo should be like this. this is the bench mark. thanks

I have the JC-40 for gigs and the JC-22 for home. Love both of them. 💚🎵

I recently bought one and I'm in love. I'm selling my other amps, its that good. It does everything depicted in this demo and it is a fantastic pedal platform. It loves my distortion pedals and sounds fantastic at any volume. I recommend it for home playing in any genre of music; just get the pedals that fit your chosen genres. I mean seriously, country to metal, doesn't matter if you've got the pedals. I'm mad about this amp.

Great review

Sir thanks for uploading this video.

I have an old JC120 in mint condition. Will definitely add this to the collection.

Cool review! Cheers :)

I was trying to decide between a JC 40, and the JC 22. I figured the jc40 is still going to sit in the corner of the room on a little stand, and the 22 is going to have to sit on a table so they're going to take up about the same amount of room. But in your review it definitely was loud enough if that was my only concern. I guess the chances of me playing out are pretty small so, I guess it doesn't really matter too much. Thanks for the review

the chorus sounds awesome. i prefer this little amp over my jc120.

Nice review. I've heard tell that the bigger JCs make a good acoustic guitar amp. Did you try an acoustic through it, and if so how did it go?

Stop telling everyone how great JC amps are, it’s my secret weapon 😎

It's called the JC-22 because Roland already made an amp called the JC-20 in the early 90's. Like the 22 it was a cut-down JC120, but it was cut down in different ways; The chorus was simply toggled on or off with no control over its settings, it lacked reverb, and it came with 5 inch speakers instead of 6.5 inch. Though it has the JC120 distortion in place of reverb, so take that as you will.

Recently bought one..I tried it on all my different guitars LGXT Godin, Mylti-Act Nylon string, BB King Epiphone, 1977 old school Electra X-330, Ibanez AS-153, PRS, USA Strat, USA Tele, Old school Voxton jazz hollow body and I can say it makes all those guitars sound authentic to its character.

Love my jangly, clean, 80’s chorus style playing i.e The Smiths, Siouxsie and the banshees, the cure, rem etc. Does this fit that bill?

Hi Steve, great vid (as good as your drone vids 😉) what about the low end of this amp. Is it good enough for gigging, the diameter of the speakers are so small. Is it comparable with a 12 inch combo amp? Thanks, Ton

Really nice video! You recommend to use with keyboards ? Thanks a lot

I believe that Roland had released a JC-30 many years ago and it was a single speaker configuration and also they also had a JC-20 that was similar in size to the JC-22. My guess is they chose JC-22 to have a unique product name an avoid confusion.

Great Demo. Thx a lot, just wanna buy this little cream machine

So, do I need this for my workshop or do I need the JC-40?

I have a JC40, and love it. It with my 65 Deluxe Reverb is a great combination.

Super little amp. I went into my local looking for a compact amp for home, aiming for something a bit different to my Cube 20. I fully expected to walk out with a Fender GT40 or some sort of modelling amp like that. Shop guy was smart, set me up to play this one first. Crystal clear cleans, nice reverb and the dimensional chorus is pretty special. I also tried what I intended looking at and walked out with the JC-22. For me the tone and simplicity won over software and gizmos. Try one sometime.

Echo Beach. Nice. Great review

Would you say the this amp sounds as good as the 120 just smaller?