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Brit Silver: based on Marshall Silver Jubilee
1987 was Marshall’s 25th anniversary. To celebrate they released the Silver Jubilee. Model 2555 was a 100 watts Jubilee, 2550 was 50 watts. It looks very classy with its chrome mirrored panel and silver tolex. The Jubilee is a valuable amp, listing 19th on Vintage Guitar’s list of most valuable amps. Marshall still has a recently released Vintage Re-issue 2555X and a Mini Jubilee in its product line, reviewed by Premier Guitar here.
The Jubilee is partly based on the JCM 800. Compared to the JCM 800, a Jubilee sounds darker and thicker, and has more gain at lower levels, partly thanks to the addition of a diode circuit. It runs on EL34 power tubes and has a single input. It has two channels: Clean and Lead. On the clean channel you can pull out Input Gain to activate the Rhythm Clip mode, for a crunchy sound. Marshall used the Jubilee to introduce Pentode/Triode switching, which halves power output. More info in the current re-issue's handbook.
Famous Jubilee players are Joe Bonamassa and Alex Lifeson (Rush). Slash used one in his live GnR rig and with Velvet Revolver. The “Slash Signature” amp (prior to the AFD) was a Jubilee.
The Jubilee has these controls: Presence, Bass, Mid, Treble, Output Master, Lead Master and Input Gain (pull-out: Rhythm Clip).
Bonamassa sets the controls on his Jubilee like this:
Presence 5, Bass 10, Mid 7.5, Treble 4.5, Master 10, Gain 5.
Presence 5, Bass 10, Mid 7.5, Treble 4.5, Master 10, Gain 5.
The Brit Silver model is based on the Jubilee. Select that amp model and you'll immediately notice the dark, fat tones, so much different from the Plexi and JCM 800 types.
Personal note: looking at Marshall’s current catalogue, I’d much rather own the 2555 re-issue (Jubilee) than a JVM410. The 2555 reminds me of amps by Bogner, Friedman, Carol-Ann etc.
The Jubilee goes with a Marshall 4x12 cabinet with Vintage 30 speakers. Look them up here. Or if you want to copy Joe Bonamassa, use EV-12L speakers.
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