Lake Placid Blues
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Re: Your Favorite Marshall
I'm voting plexi becuae it's the closest thing to a JTM45 among those listed ,and the Jubilee isn't listed. I know that alot of people like to exclude the JTM45 from plexis with SS rectifiers, but the JTM45 is essentially a plexi. Unlike the 50 and 100 watt plexis the JTM45 is more managable as far as volume. The JTM45 has a exceptional clean tone and it does those singing medium gain distortions better than any other amp at gig volumes IMO.
This is the basic problem with the Jubilees, and I have a couple of them, you either have a high gain distortion or a clean in practice. It's more difficult to get those sweet almost clean overdrives inbetween those two extremes. They have this "rythim clip" mode that is suppossed to give a more AC/DC light distortion at low volumes, but I never use it, because don't find it that authentic.
I do like Jubilees for giging though, because they are among the best as far as getting a real good Marshall tone at the required volume levels, they have channel switching, an FX loop, and they have one the better cleans among EL34 amps.
I'm voting plexi becuae it's the closest thing to a JTM45 among those listed ,and the Jubilee isn't listed. I know that alot of people like to exclude the JTM45 from plexis with SS rectifiers, but the JTM45 is essentially a plexi. Unlike the 50 and 100 watt plexis the JTM45 is more managable as far as volume. The JTM45 has a exceptional clean tone and it does those singing medium gain distortions better than any other amp at gig volumes IMO.
This is the basic problem with the Jubilees, and I have a couple of them, you either have a high gain distortion or a clean in practice. It's more difficult to get those sweet almost clean overdrives inbetween those two extremes. They have this "rythim clip" mode that is suppossed to give a more AC/DC light distortion at low volumes, but I never use it, because don't find it that authentic.
I do like Jubilees for giging though, because they are among the best as far as getting a real good Marshall tone at the required volume levels, they have channel switching, an FX loop, and they have one the better cleans among EL34 amps.
