this seems a really obvious problem, but I honestly can't get a good result out of it.
I've been using a Silver Jubilee for a higher gain rockier sound than normal - the playing I'm doing is basically a Slash style over drive sound (hence the Jubilee being a good choice). I've managed to get the Jubilee to have a great great great over driven sound really pleased with it and as the set was all driven sounds, zero issue.
I've now found I may want to introduce a clean marshall sound for a few sections of a few songs, the Jubilee is really a single channel out with a slight gain/volume boost on the "lead" channel, there is no separate gain control, so if I set the amp for a great clean sound, the drive sound has to be delivered by pedals into the clean amp, which is fine, but I really love the raw over driven sound of the marshall.
I have 3 options - but wanted to hear from people who use this type of amp a lot more than myself if I'd missed a trick or something obvious as this is not my normal type of amp or playing style.
a.) I have other marshall voiced amps, use two amps one for clean one for dirty, best option, biggest overhead though.
b.) use other marshall voiced amps with two distinct channels (I have some DSL's and a Jackson ampworks El Guapo) - the ElGuapo is really good for this, but the drive channel is a different era/voice rather than the Jubilee era
c.) use the Jubilee clean + pedals - this sounds fine, but it really isn't the same as the raw overdrive from the amp and I've really enjoyed
Is it really these 3 options or have I missed a track (secret option 4 is just drop the desire for a clean sound which I'm also considering
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I have pre-amp gain just under 7
Rolling down the guitar volume control(s) to clean up the overdrive saturation is the only option. Having a treble bypass network on the guitar volume pot might help.
I'll just dump the clean parts it's too nice as a over drive beast to not use. I guess I could get a little marshall combo for that clean "dead" marshall sound and take it with me if I wanted the clean sound.
I'm trying to fix a problem that shouldn't exist, don't play clean in to a jubilee it's not what they are there for (even though the clean sound is a nice dead thump).
RC off - fairly clean-ish rhythm and gainy lead
RC on - crunchy rhythm and gainy lead
Obviously you can't do all three settings so you'd need to choose one and stick to it. I use RC on and the channel switch for a lead boost, which has its own volume control. Live it works brilliantly and that's what the amp is really designed for. I don't play clean, so for any cleaner parts I just roll back the guitar volume and increase the guitar's tone pot to 10.
You say it's only for a few parts, in which case I'd stick with what you have on the amp and adjust the guitar input accordingly.
A possible work-around is to use a Boss LS-2 with the amp's preamp in one of the loops (guitar to input, send B to amp input, amp FX send to return B, output to amp FX return), select A/B, and use the LS-2 A level control to control the clean volume.
Edit - my mistake, the FX loop is pre-EQ on the Jubilee! That means that this should actually work quite well.
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Let the Jubilee do what it was meant to do.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
I just treat my Jubilee as a single channel amp and clean up with the guitar volume. A pedal that can cut volume also seems to work nicely if you want it footswitchable (I've used my LPB1 for this).