Jordan Electronics - Boss tone

Started by Elantric, April 19, 2016, 09:46:00 PM

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Elantric

Back circa 1968-71, Every Guitar player I knew owned and carried one of these in his guitar case



http://tonemachines.blogspot.com/2011/10/jordan-boss-tone-1967.html



Observe Jordan Electronics was a division "The Victoreen Company"- during my time with Radiation Effects in Semiconductor testing for NASA/JPL, i used many Victoreen anfd Jordan Roentgen meters
http://national-radiation-instrument-catalog.com/new_page_48.htm

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Austin_Victoreen
http://national-radiation-instrument-catalog.com/new_page_26.htm





http://www.jedistar.com/jedistar%20amp%20dating_j.htm

The Jordan amplifiers (and pedals) were supposedly manufactured between 1966 - 197x in Pasadena, California after which the company was disbanded and most of the technical crew including George Cole (the owner) and Bob Garcia (chief engineer) went to work for Rickenbacker. [Source: SS Guitar]
Jordan amp catalogs (paid)
http://www.vintaxe.com/catalogs_ampgear_jordan.htm


History of Solidstate Guitar Amplifires
http://www.ssguitar.com/index.php?topic=469.msg4398;topicseen


BBach

The boss tone had a kind of creamy phase shifted sound. I always thought that the Isley Brothers guitar lead on "Who's that lady ?" Came from the Jordan.

Elantric

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Demo of a Boss Tone Clone - that matches my recollection of the sounds of the original - it really responds to the passive Tone control on your guitar - a lot of guys back in the early 70's used the neck PU with tone on "1" and full up "Boss Tone" with a Gibson SG - to play The Guess Who's (Randy Bachman )  "American Woman" or "No time left for you.

No decent demos exist on YouTube

( I hate it when folks post a Youtube sound demo - and all i hear is the ambient room and raw guitar strings - worthless IMHO!

whippinpost91850

Wow! Haven't seen a Boss Tone in a million years. I think I need to search through my archives and see if I can find my old one