Talk Me Out of a Silver Jubilee

[PurityS.L.G]

Amp fests are very dangerous. You get drunk and may buy someone else's amp

Sounds like fun to me!

 

[LPMojoGL]

Had the Slash model, and bought the RI when they were blown out for $1000 new.
Neither stayed very long.

I've read that Wizard amps are based on the Jube? All I know is, looooooooove my Wiz. It doesn't feel or sound anything like the Jube.

 

[LPMojoGL]

Yeah. The thing about memory is that what you are playing right then can seem powerful. And with that amp, we were all sure it was the best amp on the planet. But then we played our amps, and yeah. It was left behind in the past. But it really was a lot of fun to play. And ever since then, I have flirted hard with grabbing one.

That's why I always like taking my amp down there. Because if I love something down there, I can shoot my amp against it to see if it can be beaten for me. Amp fests are very dangerous. You get drunk and may buy someone else's amp

Yep! How I got that first Wizard.

 

[fusedbrain]

Yeah, agree that they have a very unique tonality that some love and some hate.
Used to own the old Slash sig version, and currently own a reissue from the first year of production.
I personally dig how they sound because it's different from a 2203.
Yes, they have LED's for clipping, but its a completely different thing than the jose style clipping in the king Kong.
The reissue's ability to run a bunch of different pairs of power tubes is a cool feature.
Rich Robinson on The Black Crowes Southern Harmony record is all silver jube.

 

[SgtThump]

I bought the reissue head at $999 and the matching 2x12. I thought it was freaking killer. Used it at a few gigs and moved on, but I loved it.

I couldn’t really get it to work as a channel switcher.

 

[Racerxrated]

They sound different enough from the OPs amps that one would add to the collection. Thicker, darker, but with WAY more low end that any other Marshall known has. Unless it's modded.
You HAVE to run one of the master volumes at 6 or more; if not, the amp can sound thin. I dimed the overall master then you can balance the clean/lead vol by adjusting the lead master. Then you have a nice 2 ch amp. The loop is great, and the lead tone is amazeballs.
But, as others said they are not going to bark like a 2203/1959 etc...the kerrang is not quite there. Very smooth vs the raw thing a boosted 2203/1959 gets. Great amps...I've had around 8 or so, and the one that got away was a 2554 1/12 combo...I stupidly sold it thinking I'll get another...except, none of the other 2554s sounded as great as that first one.

 

[67mike]

I really like my 2555x halfstack. You need to experiment a bit with it, to get it figured out.

This was the video that made me buy mine:

 

[rstites]

Yes, If i remember right, I think there's 3 stages of diode clipping and one stage is the red LED's. When the amp is clean, that's the only time there aren't diodes engaged.

There are two different diode clipping circuits in it. One is the lead sound with heavier clipping. The other is the crunch sound - pulled knob on the front. I'd have to go dig up a schematic for details at this point. I had three of them in the studio somewhere in the 90's. They were fun amps. Definitely a more responsive EQ and the sounds in them were fine. Plus, they had a pretty decent effects loop.

However, they're really a singe channel amp with three modes so don't work well as channel switchers live. The first clean/crunch channel feeds directly into the lead sound, so there's very limited ability to adjust sounds and get the volumes to work well together. In the end, my old 2203's boosted with a pedal out front sounded much better for what I needed, so none of the Jube's stayed around.

 

[ZEN Amps]

I already own a Ceriatone King Kong and '80 JMP2203. Am I really missing anything? I know the eq on the Jube is more responsive than any other Marshall made but I feel like the amps I have can cover it. Am I wrong?

Not a big fan, but trying one for yourself is the only way to scratch that itch.

Some players swear by them, you may become one of them.