Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus

The Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus is a 2x12" solid-state combo amplifier, released by Roland Corporation in the mid-1970s. It featured built-in effects, which included: chorus, reverb, vibrato and distortion.

Peter Gabriel has used a Roland JC-120 amp occasionally for sound treatments during his career. On the Peter Gabriel 3 album (a.k.a. Melt), for piano sounds on the album ("Family Snapshot" for instance) Peter plugged his CP-70 into the JC-120 set on the chorus setting, close-miked to produce a wide stereo sound. Before this, he had a Boss CE-1.

He'd later have a Roland JC-120 as part of the collection of instruments available at Real World Studios. As listed on the tracking sheet of "Digging In The Dirt", the Akai MPC-60 drum machine part was also treated with a JC-120, for example.