
bongolation
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I've seen 'em for $25 on CraigsList here.The old and discontinued J-Station's the fav of many old-school guitarists, especially those (like me) who grew up with a Fender Twin. The good news is that it's often available for under $100 at ebay.
The J-Station is pretty much obsolete for a lot of reasons. It was my first modeler, and I still have it. What it had was unsurpassed computer editing software (J-Edit) which is essential for organized and rational modeler programming. It could do cleans OK, but its distortion wasn't that hot. The only guitar amp models in it that I found useful were the clean AC30 and the Twin (as you mention). I doubt that it had the computational power to really do much better -- especially in that it also had to support the unlimited MFX function on any profile.
I think that at ten years old, its day is pretty much over.

I had a friend who was a music producer and soundtrack composer for Sony and MGM in LA for over twenty years. He had a J-Station in his little tabletop DAW rig that he used for scratch recording his bright ideas in the middle of the night at home. As it happened, a bunch of his home guitar tracks with the J-Station wound up in major-release movies and TV series.
He, being a real recording pro, could get sound out of that thing that no one else seemed to be able to, but even he didn't mess with anything but those two clean models.
What's funny to me is that the revered J-Station models were absorbed into the DigiTech line -- and everyone hates DigiTech models.
