Post Your Best Jubilee Tone

[MirrorProfiles]

Ideally with no boosts at all, and ideally post your own examples unless there is an all time favourite tone on YouTube or an album.

I owned an original 80’s 50W Jubilee that I wasn’t mad about, it was fine but I don’t really think I miss it.

Curious what everyone thinks it excels at most, and what its limitations are tonally.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

I’d say this is possibly my favourite Jubilee example, and it pains me that the guy playing it is like the Jeremy Clarkson of the guitar world.

I think I may have tried forcing too much gain out of these, when their sweet spot is in that crunch area.

I also think this is a closer Slash tone than I’ve heard from most (breaking my own rules all over the place here, but a bit of eq before the amp):



This was my own 50W through a bogner cab. Can’t say the tone blows me away but it’s fine:

 

[headcrash]

Hey mirror, nice playing and song selection for your clip
I see you cranked the mids on your clip. Since the tonestack in Jubilees hugely differs from a standard tonestack, mid-mids and partly low-mids get very prominent when going past the 6..7 mark, at least thats what I found. Apart from that, I find it sounds great.

I had a not-silver Jubilee 2554 like yours in the late 90s, I regret having sold it. But the combo format was never for me, I prefer closed back cabs. In 2017 I decided to build a clone in a mini head format. I recorded some samples a few years back, before I sold it to a good friend.


Nowadays I prefer Fryette Deliverance clones and Classic Lead 80s in my cabs. I can get similar resulst with that combo, with more complex overtones, more gain, and an overall tighter sound. Using Classic Leads and lower output bridge humbuckers, this can get quite "Slash-y", without the use of an EQ pedal, btw.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Nowadays I prefer Fryette Deliverance clones and Classic Lead 80s in my cabs. I can get similar resulst with that combo, with more complex overtones, more gain, and an overall tighter sound. Using Classic Leads and lower output bridge humbuckers, this can get quite "Slash-y", without the use of an EQ pedal, btw.

Can hear the Slash and Fryette connection here. Nice tones, and a suitable amount of gain for those riffs.

I definitely remember the EQ behaviour, I've had a few Marshalls/Park with that style EQ (even though it's quite rare for them). For whatever reason, I find plate driven EQ's to work better when cranking things more than I would a cathode driven tonestack. They can have quite wide ranges though, I found there was other cool sounds a different settings too (rather than a "set and forget" type amp).

 

[Sascha Franck]

This was my own 50W through a bogner cab. Can’t say the tone blows me away but it’s fine:

Can't help with any clips, but I think out of the posted tones, at least for any live playing applications, this would be my favourite due to it's mid-forwardness, which I happened to learn to love.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Not to be a wet blanket; but I think we are supposed to like the Jube because tolex color but I think my interest in it came and went pretty quickly.