I always liked the sound of my banjo that has a Jones pickup when played with electric piano,electric bass and a full set of drums.
My favorite way to send my banjo signal was through my Dad's pedal steel amp/1968 Vibrolux and my dear old Ampeg B-15N fliptop bass amp.

The recordings on my homepage were done through "audacity" with my banjo plugged into the desktop with no preamp.
Sounds like a banjo to me.
I wish I still had that B15N.I only paid $200 for it and it sounded luscious.It needed a power cord and the bakelite multi-plug replaced by a modern 1/4" jack which was very inexpensive to have done.
While at a recording gig at Hearst Studio in Camden the studio offered me $2200 for it so I left it there.They wanted to add it to the bass amp choices they offered for recording purposes.

One night at the Kennebeck Wharf I was on stage and one of "The Boneheads" (probably Stevie Jones) plugged my banjo into a pedal rack and started making me sound like a saxophone,piano and guitar.
That was fun.

You can be anything with a Jones pick-up and some foot pedals..

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Originally posted by steve davis

I wish I still had that B15N.I only paid $200 for it and it sounded luscious.It needed a power cord and the bakelite multi-plug replaced by a modern 1/4" jack which was very inexpensive to have done.
While at a recording gig at Hearst Studio in Camden the studio offered me $2200 for it so I left it there.They wanted to add it to the bass amp choices they offered for recording purposes.

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GREAT recording amp for bass!!!  I've had stewardship over a band mate's late 60's B15N for a few years now, always tempted to buy it off him and make it official... but I don't do as much recording nowadays.  My oldest son is getting into it, so we'll see I guess. 
 

He has a fantastic player's condition '68 Gibson ES330 (like an Epi Casino) that I've always pictured buying him out on one day too... that guitar sounds phenomenal, would always steal it for recording...

My Mom gave me Dad's Vibrolux and I gave it to my Strat playing son a few years ago.
Dad ordered the '68 Vib from a music store in Hartford,Conn/c.o.d.
The amp was shipped on a Greyhound bus from Hartford.

It got stolen off the bus in Boston.
Because of Greyhound's and the Hartford music store's insurance Dad only had to pay the shipping of $25 for a second amp..
He bought that brand-new Fender for $25...so it was for all intents and purposes given to my Dad,too.

With a set of condenser mics-- I love to get my purest banjo tone ,,because they deserve it---then I let that tone visit with my rack system --for adding into dead spaces more like adding fills---What I do comes under woodshedding just as much as practicing to play better is--

Folks being '' plugged up'' to amplifiers has caused a lot of listenable misc. creation --in practice rooms---just as much as beating on the five--Mixing them together correctly --not so much of that --

Soon after discovering the Jones I heard Pete Wernick playing around with a phase shifter and played with that for a year or two.
I grew tired of chasing the swirl rhythm and sold the box.