Silver Jubilee Mini (2525h)

ellwood · June 2017

I did this today. Sort of by accident. There's more to the story. I'm pretty sure @CasperCaster is to blame somehow.

Thread to follow....it has been a jolly good day!

Fortheloveofguitar · June 2017

ellwood said:

I did this today. Sort of by accident. There's more to the story. I'm pretty sure @CasperCaster is to blame somehow.

Thread to follow....it has been a jolly good day!

Cant wait for your opinion post

Congrats buddy. What a beauty

richardhomer · June 2017

ellwood said:

I did this today. Sort of by accident. There's more to the story. I'm pretty sure @CasperCaster is to blame somehow.

Thread to follow....it has been a jolly good day!

Excellent work!

FarleyUK · June 2017

ellwood said:

I did this today. Sort of by accident. There's more to the story. I'm pretty sure @CasperCaster is to blame somehow.

Thread to follow....it has been a jolly good day!

That's the exact setup in looking at

how does it sound? And where did you get it from?

timmysoft · June 2017

musteatbrainsrevenge said:

Right. I think I'm going to cool my interest. Get a jet city in the short term and play with that until they potentially get their act together with a wider mini range

I've had a couple of the Jet City heads (JCA22 and the original JCA20), as great as they are, they really can't hold a candle to the quality of tone that the Marshall produces. The JCAs, tend to get a bit ratty and out of control at higher volumes, the Marshall seems to cope with volume in a much more musical manner. I think the Jet City 22 is still a great value amp and i'd happily use one but after playing through the Marshall, they're really not in the same league.

CasperCaster · June 2017

@ellwood apologies again for being so late today, and thanks for your understanding. Given how long I left you alone in a guitar store (with your credit card!) it is only right that I accept all responsibility for your new purchases! It is totally my fault

TTBZ · June 2017

@ellwood awesome looking rig you have there!

ellwood · June 2017

TTBZ said:

@ellwood awesome looking rig you have there!

Thanks - am proper chuffed!

ellwood · June 2017

FarleyUK said:

ellwood said:

I did this today. Sort of by accident. There's more to the story. I'm pretty sure @CasperCaster is to blame somehow.

Thread to follow....it has been a jolly good day!

That's the exact setup in looking at how does it sound? And where did you get it from?

To be honest I have only begun to play with it...but with strats and my 52 special tele it was really quick to dial in strong tones. I'm only on the low setting at the moment....looking forward to trying out high setting. And sticking a les paul through it...

If you are based in the Midlands you are welcome to come over and check it out!

jackorion · June 2017

Looks like Mansons (my local store) have a few preowned Marshall bits including the Silver Jubilees at the moment if people are still looking?

https://www.mansons.co.uk/categories/pre-owned-electric-guitar-amplifiers-856/addfilter/groups:92/filter/

TTBZ · June 2017

It sounds way better in 20w setting to me, even at low volumes. 5w just seems to lose some punch, makes everything sound softer.

Fortheloveofguitar · June 2017

jackorion said:

Looks like Mansons (my local store) have a few preowned Marshall bits including the Silver Jubilees at the moment if people are still looking?

https://www.mansons.co.uk/categories/pre-owned-electric-guitar-amplifiers-856/addfilter/groups:92/filter/

Thanks for the heads up. I've just bought it

timmysoft · June 2017

TTBZ said:

It sounds way better in 20w setting to me, even at low volumes. 5w just seems to lose some punch, makes everything sound softer.

Agree!

Fortheloveofguitar · June 2017

Bring on Monday/Tues. can't wait to get on it now and to bag one used is great

musteatbrainsrevenge · June 2017

timmysoft said:

musteatbrainsrevenge said:

Right. I think I'm going to cool my interest. Get a jet city in the short term and play with that until they potentially get their act together with a wider mini range

I've had a couple of the Jet City heads (JCA22 and the original JCA20), as great as they are, they really can't hold a candle to the quality of tone that the Marshall produces. The JCAs, tend to get a bit ratty and out of control at higher volumes, the Marshall seems to cope with volume in a much more musical manner. I think the Jet City 22 is still a great value amp and i'd happily use one but after playing through the Marshall, they're really not in the same league.

Thanks for the heads up. I think I need to consult the internet and procrastinate some more. I may start a thread. I want a new 80s hair metal rig for mucking about with at home

rico · June 2017

@Plectrum & @timmysoft where did you hear about those new mini Marshalls? I'm very intrigued!

jackorion · June 2017

Fortheloveofguitar said:

jackorion said:

Looks like Mansons (my local store) have a few preowned Marshall bits including the Silver Jubilees at the moment if people are still looking?

https://www.mansons.co.uk/categories/pre-owned-electric-guitar-amplifiers-856/addfilter/groups:92/filter/

Thanks for the heads up. I've just bought it

No worries man, glad to have helped!

ellwood · June 2017

Grabbed a couple of hours at the unit today to sit down and give some of my recent acquisitions a run. I have a three year old, so the chance to give anything a proper blast is a rare thing. Most of my gear is set up at my office/unit and I don't really spend any time there at the weekends.

Amp-wise, along with the 2525 I have also not long acquired a Rivera Knucklehead Tre combo, and this was the perfect opportunity for some back to back comparisons, along with running through a few strats to see how they all compared.

First up was a lot of tweaking, swapping, changing guitars to dial in some tones I was happy with on both amps. The Rivera quickly arrived at a chiming clear lead, and a way-too-heavy lead setting. Dialing in some articulation whilst retaining a snarl took a little tweakery - but soon I had everything from "Sunshine of your love" through to "Killing in the name of" through the hybrid Highway One/MIJ 62RI and my Creamery-pickup equipped Raygun Relic.

Swapping over to the Marshall with the Highway one left something missing. There was drive, just nothing that felt fat and full enough to my ears. Surprisingly the clear was fine at the edge of breakup, and playing with the volume on the guitar gave me the headroom I wanted whilst still keeping a nice strat edge. Back to the gain channel.

Whacking everything up to 10 started to get there but seemed a bit of a luddite-approach, so some playing around with the lead and master outputs, (I was on the high output setting) started to yield results. With the gain around 8 the thing started to growl in the way I was expecting. Flipping strats to the Relic left more to do again, with the Creamery-pickups having more of a smooth sound.

Hmm. Time to feed this thing some buckers. First up a CE22, instantly this thing sounded like a Marshall being Marshally on a Marshall day. Lots of thick drive, with the opportunity to tweak out the bass and bring some nice clear edges. Swapping the CE to a classic-57 setup in a Les Paul standard gave sustain for an age with a full, rich, classic rock voice. I had to stop myself just playing "Word up" and "Gimme Shelter" over and over and over and over again. Cracking out the 52 Special Tele and the neck bucker was bliss and put me and the Marshall in a very happy place.

And yes, the Tele through the RIvera was sublime.

So, after messing around for an hour and a half with all manner of cliched riffs - The Rivera is just a monster. Clean or Crunchy it's amazing. Far better than I am and one hell of an amp.

The Marshall? Very very pleased. Feed it humbuckers and you can't go wrong. It will do strats but you have to work a bit harder. That said, I don't do pedals (yet) so I'm looking forward to seeing what the 2525 can do with a decent drive and a compressor in front of it.

photek · June 2017

Sounds like a fun afternoon haha. Give those new V30's a few hours (or is that years!) to bed in and you will be good to go

FarleyUK · June 2017

Done - deposit placed, picking mine up from Andertons on Wednesday, along with the 2 x 12 2536a vertical cab.

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