With the 7.6-pound Jazzmaster Ultralight head unit and its 17-pound speaker enclosure, transportation is a nonissue. That lightness is a credit to the JM Ultralight being a dependable, convenient—albeit stigmatized—solid-state unit. While serious blues and rock players are largely devoted to often temperamental tube amps, jazzers (especially archtop players) are a rare breed that plays solid-state amps. While jazz-oriented amps are usually styled in a plain, polytone mold, the JM Ultralight and its enclosure form a downright sexy stack.
The head unit’s sides and top boast sunburst-finished maple wood that’s similar to what’s used on Fender’s Showmaster guitar series. The uberlight speaker enclosure is covered in Fender tolex, and four magnetic rivets fasten the head unit to the cabinet (part of Fender’s patent pending “hidden magnet system”).
The Ultralight is split into two foot-switchable channels: one clean and one overdrive, with each channel offering a rotary of high-quality digital effects—16 settings on each channel. The effects are effortless to use and sound as good as—if not better than—other similarly integrated amp-and-effects units. The effects are selectable via a rotary knob and include reverb, chorus, flange, tremolo, vibratone, delay and various combinations of those core sounds. Reverb is, obviously, more part of a sound’s foundation than merely an effect, and Fender would be wise to reconfigure an independent reverb control.
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