I tried the new Marshall jubilee combo!

pintspiller

Buying gear and getting married? You must be minted.

thomasross20

Hmm prices going up? Folk are already saying it's costly.

DanR

My mini head arrives tomorrow got a good deal with GAK so took the plunge.

jesone

DanR said:

My mini head arrives tomorrow got a good deal with GAK so took the plunge.

What kind of deal? PM me.

jesone

It's nearly 5PM, where's the bloody tone report/review?????

DanR

Ha ha everything's in bits at moment.

Todays involved getting the following

Jubilee.
Helix.
JHS Colour Box.
Krk RP5 monitors (technically one the other arrives next week)
Variety of cables.

and were about to have a BBQ.

DanR

Ok I'm gonna be honest it's only been plugged in for 15 min but it took a minute to find a sound I liked.

10 minutes of playing to make me wonder why I keep going round the houses with amps when Marshalls feel like home.

thomasross20

How does the Helix compare?
We need clips!

jesone

DanR said:

Ok I'm gonna be honest it's only been plugged in for 15 min but it took a minute to find a sound I liked.

10 minutes of playing to make me wonder why I keep going round the houses with amps when Marshalls feel like home.

We're gonna need more than that I'm afraid fella.

DanR

I'm not really gonna spend any real time with it till Saturday.

jesone

WHAAAAT!!!!!!

jesone

@DanR Its been Saturday for over 12 hours dude!!!!

Fortheloveofguitar

If you've purchased a quality amp like this and by the weekend you still haven't given it a good going over then you don't deserve to own it

Should be ashamed of yourself really. The amp version of a prick tease

DanR

This is the joys of working 6 day weeks.

Id rather be at home with a beer and guitar.

DanR

Right so a few hours with her tonight and here's a brief overview of my thoughts.

Start with the negatives.

Clean Channel, it sounds fine decent chime to it  and not ice picky like I tend to find a lot of cleans, it also reacts well to my picking and it plays nice with my drive pedals.

Now that doesn't sound particularly negative but when you change channels there is a significant volume jump to where I have the lead channel set.

This makes the clean channel unusable without constant changes.

So I've settled on the clean channel being permanently on the clipped setting, this adds a fair bit more drive to it but switching to neck pickup and rolling off the volume does give a nice warm clean that's goes dirty with a bit of digging in.

Positives.

Its surprisingly light, feels solid and sturdy.

Looks lovely aswell.

Lead channel - this is where I've been spending most of time, I don't use loads of gain I tend to sit between 9 and 1pm treble around 11pm, bass 10pm and mids around 1pm.

Ive been happily playing AC/DC, GnR and with my Archer in front gain up a bit and some fiddling with the EQ I've been able to get a pretty decent thrash metal sound out of it.

The presence control has been more than able to keep the fizzyness and harshness in check when the gains be pushed up.

Ive been running the amp through my Victory 2x12 with G12M-65's and my Zilla FatBaby 1x12 with a G12H-75.

Now the big question is will I keep it as I can't stop looking at Friedmans.

thomasross20

What's the "grace period"? 
I forget but did you try these amps in the shop?

DanR

14 days.

Id tried the Jubilee in PMT while waiting for my mate, that's what made me start thinking about one over the expense of the Friedman.

thomasross20

AH ok. 
I honestly wasn't wowed by the mini Dirty Shirley I tried. Try whatever one you're thinking about if you can.