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throw a guptech parametric EQ pedal in the loop, adds a resonance control so you’ll get all the low end of a 5150, learned that from Gary Holt… game changer for the Jubilee
@agufish - see if Sweetwater would loan you an 800 to A/B. I would love to Hear you eat some of your words. I loved my 800 & I’ve never played a Jubilee, but the 800 is the penultimate Marshall sound to me. Boost with an OD-1 is Garage Mullet Metal at its finest.
I've bought and sold just about every amp Marshall makes through the years. I still have my 100 watt Jubilee 2555 and 100 watt JCM800 2210 from 1987... they're my two favs.
I bought a 2203 re-issue a couple of years ago, and the only thing I want is to get another so I could have one at home as well as at the rehearsal room
I just wish Marshalls didn’t cost damn near double what they cost in Europe for US buyers. That makes it so clones and other brands like Friedman are far more responsible of a choice.
@@watersnortmoment3734I see these kicking about marketplace in the UK all the time for half the price of rectifiers… must be the opposite where you are
The Silver Jubilee has always been my favorite Marshall ever. It's was the only Marshall I ever plugged into that immediately sounded like a Marshall always sounded in my head. A Plexi, and especially a Super Lead Plexi, most people will never get the opportunity to play it loud enough to get the sound they hear on albums…or at least they never could before load boxes and IR cabs existed. If you're a Strat player that uses higher levels of gain, the darker and smoother character makes it the ideal Marshall. I've been building and working on amps for 15 years, and the only other amp I've played that I would choose over it would be a Soldano SLO 100, but at $4000 it's beyond most players reach.
Even the 20 watt Jubilee sounds amazing, personally though, I’m more of a vintage Marshall fan, but I also can’t justify Marshall’s US pricing, so I bought a JTM clone.
@watersnortmoment3734 Look and Sweetwater, now you can get these amps and even the JVM 410 for under 2k.. I'm very seriously thinking about snagging one. I agree on the crazy prices and I don't know if that's just a sale or what.
Fuck yes, I had two JCM 800s from 1984 - 1996 with two 1960A four twelve cabs and gigged with that rig every weekend. That’s when I was young, dumb and full of, you know. lol it always sounded so fucking good though. I miss those days.
I’ve got the 20w mini head and cab. I always look at other amps and try to find “THE ONE”. But I always go back to this. It does everything. It sounds exactly how I need it to. And that’s exactly the point.
It's honestly the perfect mix of simplicity and versatility in many ways. You have cascading gain channels, a beautiful clean channel (no seriously), and it can cover many different styles. It's one of my favorite amplifiers, period.
Killer tones, sir! The Silver Jubilee slays! It'd be interesting to see what you think of the JVM410H and its two differently voiced overdrive channels (OD1 higher frequency mid hump, British; OD2 lower frequency mid hump, American) in comparison. I know a lot of people swear by the Jubilee over the JVM410, but not all.
10/10 a Marshall will never not cut. It’s like a mustang where many wanna trash talk but it remain the standard by which many say “ it’s at least as fast as”. Have a 2210 with minor custom work and I absolutely love it.
I'm a bedroom player...when I was a teen I had a Lead 12 and it sounded great.Just getting back into playing and rebought the same amp and still is killer. I dunno, Marshall that sounds I love.👍
Bought a 2555 in '88 new in the box at the store I worked at and a few years later an '88 2550.they are fewrer than 50 digits apart in their serial numbers. Same amps as Silver Jubilee's just in black levant and gold face plates.I modded them to run 6550's or KT88's in the power section.the absolute bombs.
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Good trick with the Jub, just park the output master knob around 6 (there's a sweet spot/boil-over point you'll feel) and just use the lead master knob for your volume. You can actually get good lower volume tone that way.
I would go for one of these or the JCM800 before getting a newer "modern" amp... These are timeless classics. I love my JVM410 but 4 other Marshall amps are on my wish list. Great buy dude!
I’ve got both mini versions of the Jubilee and JCM800. I genuinely can’t decide which I prefer. They’re similar and yet different at the same time. The 800 has a lot less gain but if you throw in a boost it can do almost everything the Jub does. They’re both a lot of fun to play live!
I had a JCM 800 20w and a 2525 20w, I sold both to buy a JCM 800 2203. The JCM 800 2203 is the Marshall sound (with the 1959). The JCM is way nastier than the silver jubilee . With a SD1 in front, nothing can compare to a JCM 800. Maybe one day I’ll buy a 100w silver jubilee because they are very cheap here in Europe (1200€) compare to the US. But if you want the Marshall sound you need a JCM 800 or a Plexi first.
The Half power mode makes it darker and smoother. It reminds me of a Mesa Mark kind of tone. At low volume a boost is necessary to get the high gain goodness.
Seemed like the medium output pickups had the best overall tones. The SD '59 and Slashbucker alnico ii in particular stood out for clarity and balance. I've noticed people are trending back towards the classic medium hot pickups and away from all the high output overwound stuff that's been popular for awhile. Every amp responds a bit differently to various pickups.Cabs and speakers just aren't as important as some claim them to be.
Here is my problem with the Jubilee (which I owned at one point): it is not a traditional two-channel amp. It has two channels, yes, but you can not max out both channels for a totally clean, totally saturated tone. You can set it up so you have low-gain and mid-gain, or no-gain to low-gain, but you can not go from clean to fully distorted. To do that, you'd have to mod it or use pedals... so it's pretty much a one-trick pony. This is ultimately why I got rid of it. There was a time when distortion only came from amps, but that time passed long ago. Now we have pedals that sound just as good, so it makes much more sense to get a clean amp like a Twin and go that route. You can do so much more with it, and you're not confined to one tone. And if THAT isn't enough, we even have virtual amps... although I hate them lol.
You made some good points there man. I'm forever trying to decide if I prefer my jube or my Twin with pedals. The Twin is definitely a more versatile rig (even if it is an absolute bitch to move around😂)
@@mattchurchill Yeah. The weight is ridiculous. I think if I were gigging, I'd get a Hotrod or something like that and leave the Twin for studio/home use. Way too heavy lol.
Indeed getting the two channels uniform is hard. But it has in spades the best eq, great effects loop and amazing bloom when pushed, accepts pedals really well and cleans up nicely when you lower the guitar volume. It is to me an awesome JCM 800 with more gain, better EQ section and an effects loop.
I’ve owned vintage and reissue jCM800 2203. I have sold all My 800’s and only have the Jubilee now. The Jubilee is what I always wanted my 2203’s to sound like. The jubilee is slightly more refined than the jcm 800 but it has more versatility and can get way more gain than a stock 800. If you need more gain put a Friedman Buxom Boost in front you’ll be in metal heaven! I love that the reissue jubilee has user accessible bias points. I highly recommend picking one of these up for any rock and metal player
One day a Marshall would be awesome. I rented one back in 2008. It was a tube combo amp. I don’t know the model but you could feel the wind coming through the speakers as you played. At the time I had an Ltd with emgs 81/85. It was a true feeling literally the air you were playing through the guitar. Amazing experience. Haven’t played one since.
As so many of us, all my life I have been looking for the perfect sound. I have found it in the combination of a standard strat and a black jubilee 2550 (Marshall made the silver jubilee for 1,5 years longer, but in a black housing). The reissue does come close. I think the difference must have to do with the transformers because the circuitry is exactly the same. I played my original next to the reissue and yes, there is a difference. As the originals are very hard to find (in a good condition), the reissue is in my opinion the 2nd best amp Marshall ever made.
Never played a jubilee either but Marshall is just it for me. Always sounds right. Had a Valvestate when I was a kid and a DSL now. Always sounds right.
I one of these. Great amps. But recently got the jvm joe satriani edition. Man now that is the best Marshall ever made. I also have the slash afd100. But the joe satriani jvm is the best ! Ps boost the lead channel with a klon and it’s heaven on the jubilee !
Get yourself some thick sliced white bread, toast it, butter it and pour on some Heinz Baked beans, wash that down with a hot cup of Yorkshire Tea… Then go play through the Jubilee and it’ll sound even more awesome!! Fear death no longer as your life will be complete 😊
The tones you're getting here are awesome! What do you think the biggest difference sound-wise between the silver jubilee and the DSL line? Inherited a DSL15C and it's been working great so far tone-wise
Could you do a video that explains the differences between all of Marshalls current models? Most the major amp brands like Friedman, Soldano, EVH, Orange, etc all have their flagship amp so its very simple to buy from them. But Marshall has all these models with confusing model numbers and they dont even explain on their website what the difference is between all these amps. Like if I were to buy a Marshall I would just randomly pick one and hope it was the right one for me.
You've never played a JCM 800?? I have a 50w from 1982, unmolested. I still use it, and it's far beyond amazing. Try putting an EQ pedal in front of it, crank a few tones that you like, and push the output a little and you'll be quite surprised.
I was looking at Ceriatone… I forgot which of their models is based on the Jube, but you can also get them with additional mods like a depth control so that was very tempting
Eventually....almost every guitar player eventually “gets” the Marshall appeal and why they are the standard. As a kid...I hated most Marshall amps...because I didn’t understand them. I needed ALL THE GAIN ALL THE TIME. Then you discover less is more, and Marshall makes a sense. We “age into them”........
Thanks, I enjoyed the classic tones/riffs...probs never get the amp🙄 but I was brainwashed by Marshall marketing as a younger player so I had to watch🤣
I honestly think the easiest way to get the Marshall sound is plugging into a JCM 800 or Plexi. The jubilee and DSLs seem like they still need to be dialed in
I still want one of those, i have 2 DSL H 100 watt heads got a great deal years back with Sweetwater now every amp has gone up by like 400.00bucs man ,If i have a choice on my next Amp its going to b the EVH Stealth 6L6 100,or the Marshall Jubilee will be difficult choice man😂..awesome video u do great work on u channel Hunter 👍 🍻🎸🎶
I think the Silver Jubilee is one of the best sounding Marshall amps. I'm more likely to play a model of the Silver Jubilee as opposed to the real thing, but I don't begrudge anyone who is willing to invest big bucks into the real deal. If you can afford it, that's awesome! Also, great video as always.
I’m like the only one who doesn’t like these amps lol. I think the 800 dialed in correctly is hands down the best Marshall amp ever made. The new dsl HR is great too for a budget tube head
How surprising, another silver jubilee video where it’s only metal and humbuckers and chugging. I swear nobody uses this amp for its charming and sparkly clean tones, throw some single coils in front of it for once.
@@martyshwaartz971old comment I know but jubilees tend to like v30s best lots of people move them on as they didn't like it but they were not using v30s. My mate sold his but after playing mine throught a v30 cab he immediately went and bought another one
Great vid and glad ya love the amp. I recently was able to get an EVH 5150 EL34 combo (i picked the combo for the power attenuator it has) and let me tell you, that amp is awesome. I tried the 6L6 version and Channel 3 of course was awesome, but if i had channel 1 set up sounding good, ,then channel 2 was garbage and vise versa. With the EL34, i can have all of them sounding great at same time and i truly love it. Have been wanting this amp for years and i sold 2 guitars and an amp to get it, and it was well worth it. I love marshalls, but this EVH is awesome in its own right but its in the same ball park as the marshall imo just a little cheaper 😇
I have the Mini Jubilee 20W and I love it! Just curious - what were your EQ and gain settings? 6 on all and gain on max? I tried that and I felt that the gain was a bit too much/muddy if pushed to the max, especially on the clean channel since the gain is also shared between the two channels which is important when swapping between them
@@jordanfipps733 Yeah that's what I do too and it works really well! I was mainly curious about the crushing tone Agufish got in the video, but perhaps that was boosted then?
@@adamskold6395from the signal chain list on the bottom of the video I'd assume he's running a precision drive in front of it for the Gainier stuff which would make sense to me since Marshall's are usually kinda mushy unless you know how to set the gain and use the right drive on it to clear it up
I love that model of Marshall! That’s definitely my favorite model and I’m planning on grabbing the full sized version along with the little brother 20 watt version.
I’ve got a Jubilee and it’s absolutely killer. Every point that Agufish makes here is spot on, although one thing it’s worth adding is that it takes pedals incredibly well - the clean channel is a superb pedal platform!
I found the cleans lacking compared to the Twin. It's clean, and it sounds wonderful, but it's not the pedal platform that Fender's amps are. Not even close.
when i decided to get into the rest of the guitar stuff besides guitars, i figured if i wanted a tube amp i'd start with marshall. at the time the new 20 watts were fresh on the market, and after hours and hours of youtubing to the best of my ability, and interpretation of what i heard on the youtubes, i ended up with the SC20H, the baby JCM 800. and i'll say this, it sounds good on a reasonable volume, but it's godlike when it's pushed way beyond the "do you think the neighbours will be annoyed by this?". it's accompanied by an early 90s mesa 2x12 (metal grille). i will never sell it!
I used to have a JCM800 back in the 80’s. It was red tolex in color and 100w, was a screamer of an amp. Watching this video brings back that old Marshall sound for me. I may just have to hunt one down and get one. 👍
