Does a Fender Pro Jr. sound full when mic'd?

[imabear]

In larger venues than bars and whatnot, have any of you mic'd a pro jr? And how does that sound? Does it cut through the mix and sound full? What're your experiences?
Thanks!

[danand.jf]

It really depends on a lot of things, the mic used the positioning of the mic, and probably most importantly the man behind the buttons.
A talented sound engineer can make most amps sound good. I play guitar and do sound for others from time to time, and my experience is that you can come a long way with a good mic and a good eq setting, but as with everything form time to time it depends on the sum of all the factors that play a part in shaping the sound.

[chervokas]

In larger venues than bars and whatnot, have any of you mic'd a pro jr? And how does that sound? Does it cut through the mix and sound full? What're your experiences?
Thanks!


It's a 1X10 of course so the guitar's bottom octave is pretty much MIA; and the stock Eminence speaker, which is a good speaker, is, to my ears, a little lower mid shy so that make its even less full in the low end. So to me that make the amp, at least w/o a speaker swap, tend not to sound all that full.

But cut it certainly does. Amps with 10 inchers generally tend to really cut in a rock band.

How it sounds mic'ed depends, of course, on the mic, the soundman, the board, the PA....but a couple of years ago Jeff Beck was touring with a Pro Junior as the only signal that was going to the front of the house and it was sufficient to cut through and fill the space in the venues he was playing so it can definitely work.

[A440]

It can be done with the right person at the board. There are some posts here about some guys doing large tours with 1 or 2 of them.

I think it would be better if you plugged them into a larger cab, which is very easy. The Pro Jr already has a plug to do so.

[DeaconBlues]

It's not the amp so much as how it's mic'ed and EQ'ed at the board. I have my PJ in a larger cabinet with a 12" speaker and sometimes run a 12" extension speaker with it. Sounds great, but it doesn't always get mic'ed and EQ'ed to where it sounds good through the PA. A good sound tech can make you or break you when running through a PA.

[Alvis]

I use a PJ for my harmonica/guest guitar amp all the time and sometimes ,my main guitaramp . I certainly have no trouble onstage hearing it . A couple weeks ago we had an outdoor gig using the PJ against an AC30....all was fine onstage .Folks in the house said they had no problem hearing both guitars,so the FOH guy must've had it together .

I wouldn't worry about the 10" too much ,just play it !

[James Knox]

I hang a Sennheiser 609 over the front of my Junior for FOH and have no problem hearing or being heard. After playing through a BF Princeton Rev with a 12" speaker for years, I was suprised how much more cut/focus/clarity I get from the Junior.

I've seen several guys do festivals and outdoor gigs with the DUAL Pro Junior set up. One Jr when "less is more" and two Jr's when "more is more".

Peace,
James

[deadbeat son]

I saw a duo in a local 700ish person capacity theater. One guy was playing acoustic guitar through a preamp into the PA, the other was playing a Telecaster through a Pro Junior miced into the PA. The Pro Jr sounded amazing in this application. It was raunchy when he wanted it to be, and it backed off nicely when necessary as well. Through the house, it sounded HUGE. I've had GAS for a Pro Jr ever since.

[aflynt]

I used a Pro Jr. with a Weber 10F150T in it as my main amp for several years. I'd just stick an SM57 on it close miced slightly off center when it wasn't loud enough. It sounded great for the stuff I was doing then (Wedding music, Top 40 Country, and Soul Jazz stuff). All those bands had pretty tame stage volume, though. The biggest trick for getting a big sound was to keep it on the floor and close to a corner or back wall.

-Aaron