RAISING THE TONEOpinion
In recent years, advances in digital modelling amps have, at last, offered a variety of non-valve amps that most of us would be happy to use in one context or another. But prior to the digital revolution, the much-maligned analogue transistor amp was generally regarded as a poor relation to classic valve amps. There were, however, some honourable exceptions…
BB King used Lab Series amps at one point, as did Allan Holdsworth, and British-made Award Session amps were used by Clapton on his 1986 album and remain well respected. But the undisputed king of solid-state amps is Roland’s beefy 120-watt, chorus-equipped JC-120 – which became standard kit in studios around the world and
