Re: Marshall Silver Jubilee
Good to see someone demoing the amp playing blues instead of 80's metal riffs for a change.
I'm curious to know how difficult or costly it was to find a mint '87 2555 in France.
I've had a lot of good amps over the years, but have a fondness for Jubilees. I got my first one in 1988, at 17. The store owner liked me and gave me a good deal at $800 plus tax.....my first major purchase.
Like a fool, I sold that 2555 in the mid 90's for $650. How dumb was that?
Luckily, I scored a dead mint 50W 2550 fullsize fullstack in 2002 for a great price of $1500 from an older guy out in the desert.
My 50W doesn't really require attenuation like the 100W, but I'd like to know more about your attenuator. I'm sure it does a good job lowering the volume but retaining the tone.
Thanks! I don't think this amp is made for metal at all. People should use it for blues/jazz/rock.
In fact, I remember seeing around last summer tons of Jubilees and Super Leads popup on reverb.com or french websites.
When I had put all the money together by the end of July, I saw an ad from a guy in Paris (200km from my place) saying he was selling a halfstack in clean condition.
In 3 weeks, managed to discuss the price and get it lowered of 1300$ so I got the amp for about 3500$.
The amp+cab are in excellent condition, just had to clean the back and get off a thick layer of dust off the chassis and everything looked as good as it was 29 years ago.
Was a lucky find!
The Torpedo Reload is the attenuator I used.It is manufactured in France by a french company called Two-Notes:
http://two-notes.com It has multiple functions:
_Attenuator: You can attenuate the output volume and still keep the signal identical. It retains the tone as it was coming out of the amp but you have a control that lets you get a more modern or vintage sound (adds mids or scoops bass)
_D.I you can use it to record a D.I track, you plug your guitar in the attenuator input on the front and it records the signal coming out of your guitar
_Reamping: You can then send the D.I track you recorded back into the amp and tweak it to get the tone you want to record (used in studio I.E: you record the D.I track and whenever you want just plug the torpedo into the amp and get the sound you want and record it)
_Loadbox: It has an integrated loadbox, you plug the amp into the torpedo, you plug the output of the torpedo in your cabs and in your soundcard so you can either play through the cabs or play through a DAW addon called Torpedo Wall of Sound which is currently the best speaker simulator on the market. You can simulate up to +40 cabs and you can choose the mic placement, which mic you want, how many cabs to use, how many mics to use etc..
_It has a replay function meaning that while you are doing your reamping (the D.i goes through the amp) you can also plug your guitar in the torpedo and play along so the D.I signal and guitar signal are sent into the amp. Cool thing is that the replay tells you if your guitar signal is louder than the D.I signal and with a knob, you can adjust the loudness of the D.I signal so it can be as loud as your guitar, louder or quieter.
Here's their website for more/better info:
http://www.two-notes.com/en/hardware/torpedo-reload/
