In actual fact I part-ex’d my Cornford Roadhouse 30 for the Blues Junior so I got the chance to compare them back to back. Plugging in, the clean tone was exactly what I was looking for. It’s almost half the weight of the Cornford at 14.06kg (31 lbs), considerably smaller (than just about any other comparable product too), features a built in spring reverb tank and no superflous features whatsoever. On first impressions at least, the Fender Blues Junior III is perfect. So along came the Fender Blues Junior III First Impressions. I’d been contemplating a simpler, smaller amp setup for a while, the idea being I would run it clean and control everything through the front end with pedals. This caused a mass of cables, power supplies, noise and general faffing about, but I toughed it out as it sounded great. Utilizing the Cornford Roadhouse 30’s fabulous low/mid gain tone on-stage was getting frustrating, as this necessitated running time-based effects through its FX Loop, and Wah + extra overdrive through the front end. I gigged it for 3 solid years and it never let me down once, but it was even heavier than the Orange and I only ever went up to 3 or 4 on the master at a gig. The Orange featured a fuzz-pedal style overdrive channel that didn’t really work in practice, and then along came the Cornford, another 1×12 beast and the best of the lot. The Marshall had design flaws, no ventilation for the valves, so it ran too hot. The Vox AC30 was just too heavy and too old, unreliable and downright stressful to gig with.
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