Marshall Silver Jubilee or a Soldano SLO

[apj]

Re: Marshall Silver Jubilee or a Soldano SLO

Marshall. It's a classic. the SLO is a classic in it's own right... but it only does 1 sound. It does it really really quite well, but still.

Have you ever tried both? The jubilee is much for of a one trick pony to my ears. Soldano wins hands down.

 

[philthis]

Re: Marshall Silver Jubilee or a Soldano SLO

I had a Silver Jubilee half stack back in the day. you had to crank the hell out of it but it sounded good loud. low to mid power it just sounded plain nasal tone to me with total clip. I began useing all kinds of pedals to round out the tone during practice with the band. on occasion when I got to crank the thing it sounded really good if you ditched the pedals and ran the thing directly into the mixers reverb (speaker miked). you can get a glorius clip out of it that will shake your brain in your skull. when played loud, you can hear the -gain on the note-in addition to the clip. I think thats why people who play cranked Marshalls love um becouse they do cut thru. they can be eq'd to have a nice overdrive sound which smooths out the clip and produces a warm round tone but this can get lost in a band mix-if you listen to Journey live some of the songs have this warm overdrive sound which seems to kinda get lost in the mix so Steve Perry could be the centerpoint of the sound (shame to waist Neils licks LOL) thats why I sold it. Great clip tone played loud but if you cant play at sonic levels it will just piss you off becouse you cant get -the holy grail of clip tone-played at lower volumns. its not a bedroom amp. hope this helps somewhat :cool2:

 

[Lake Placid Blues]

Re: Marshall Silver Jubilee or a Soldano SLO

Have you ever tried both? The jubilee is much for of a one trick pony to my ears. Soldano wins hands down.

Astro can speak for himself, but speaking for myself- I have played both albeit the Jubilee alot more.

I have found the two very similar amps. They both have a great high gain ch. and they both have a decent clean ch. A few of the subtle differences:

The SLO is a lot louder. Wound up to their sweet spots the SLO is all of what a 100 watt amp should be expected of. The SLO of course can be run at any volume but just like any tube amp it still sounds synthetic at low volume, at least to me. My 50 watt Jubilees are about as loud, run loud, as a JTM45 run medium loud. Its a comfortable gig volume. Even the 100 watt Jubilees don't seem to be so overwhelmingly loud as the typical 100 watter. I know a guy that gigged Jubilees a lot back in the day. He says they just ran em dimed all the time for rock club gigs.

The SLO is voiced a lot brighter. The SLO has a lot of cut if that's what you want. I found the Jubilee a much warmer and more organic voice for me. The SLO's gain has more bumble buzz to my ear.

Jubilees are picky about tubes and bias moreso than most tube amps. You must manage these aspects of maintenance closely.

The main problem with the Jubilee if you do much ch switching can be the shared input gain. This might be why many just dial it in for one primary tone. If you want a crisp clean Twin Reverb on the clean and a raging Plexi switched directly to the other at any volume, well there's better amps for that. I have used it very successfully in a ch switching role many times at gigs though. It's way better as a Ch switcher than a 2205 nonetheless, and its gain tone is better in my opinion too.

I think the Bogner I played once was way better at ch switching than the SLO.

I woudn't mind having SLO around if I could justify the cost though. It's a milestone amp in just about every way. Its on my wish list.