CrazyDiamond
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Hi guys, my first post (doubt) here
I have read a lot of messages here so thank you all for all the help that you give for each other. It helped me to find a lot of answers to my questions. But some still remains.
I'm about to pick a Silver Jubilee head (2525h) and I have some concerns about it. I always wanted a tube amp (i have a valvestate nowdays) and previously I was looking for the DSL40cr which has a good price for me and is close to the tone that I'm looking for. Recently I saw some reviews about de jubilee and I felt something more about the tone that sounded exactly how I wanted.
Tone goal: The classic/hard rock is the main tone that i want to get from the amp so I think that it is not a problem for both DSL40cr and Jubilee 2525H. It's not my intention to get modern tones from the amp.
As far as I can get a tone to sound similar to Led Zeppelin, ACDC, Guns n' Roses, Free and etc while we are talking about the drive sound, I would be pleased. I also like to play stuff like Metallica, Black Sabbath and other things like that but correct me if I'm wrong, it won't be a problem, will it?
This is a good reference from the tone that I'm looking for:
It's important to give some add info:
- I will be playing/studying only at home for now so yeah, a high volume could be a problem because I live in a apartment. The Covid situation is bad here in my country, so for now i don't have anything set about a band. I have a drummer friend and we talked about a future cenario to do some reheases and maybe some little presentations after. I wanted to get an amp that in the future I could use on these ocasions.
- After hearing the 2525H sound, i started to feel the DSL40cr sounding more fat than the Jubilee on the videos. I don't know if it's the way that the guys are configuring de EQ of the amp but it seems that the DSL sounds a little bit different
When it comes to the clean sound, it is something that concerns me. I will start to enumerate
1 - I also like so much to play Pink Floyd songs (I already have a stratocaster that helps me with the Gilmour tone) and I need to know if I would be able to get a clean tone to be like a "base sound" to my modulation pedals (like phaser and etc) and play songs like Breath, Coming Back To Life and Us And Them without having the amp starting to saturate.
2 - I think that this is a consequence of the first item. I am aware about shared gain control, so if I use a low gain to get a clean tone on first channel, i'm afraid of when I turn to the lead channel it could sound weak or very low gain. So, in that case a boost pedal could fill that 'gap'? Maybe a tube screamer or something like that? The goal in that case would be using
the lead channel + boost pedal to sound similar or so good as if was using the just the lead channel + gain knob. Just making it clear that I won't be using this specific 'config' on the amp the whole time. I am very satisfied how the amp sounds on the lead channel and the clean channel with more gain and sometimes I will use just like that.
3 - And for now, getting that clean sound (low gain) without getting the amp saturated, is the clean sound good or do it depends on the gain knob to give body to the sound? Before someone tell me to forget the amp if I'm looking just for cleans, I am just trying to figure if I can get same versatility from the clean/drive channels like the DSL would provide.
I could sumarize everything on getting the jube tone with the DSL vesatility for the clean and gain control.
Sorry for the long thread
I have read a lot of messages here so thank you all for all the help that you give for each other. It helped me to find a lot of answers to my questions. But some still remains.
I'm about to pick a Silver Jubilee head (2525h) and I have some concerns about it. I always wanted a tube amp (i have a valvestate nowdays) and previously I was looking for the DSL40cr which has a good price for me and is close to the tone that I'm looking for. Recently I saw some reviews about de jubilee and I felt something more about the tone that sounded exactly how I wanted.
Tone goal: The classic/hard rock is the main tone that i want to get from the amp so I think that it is not a problem for both DSL40cr and Jubilee 2525H. It's not my intention to get modern tones from the amp.
As far as I can get a tone to sound similar to Led Zeppelin, ACDC, Guns n' Roses, Free and etc while we are talking about the drive sound, I would be pleased. I also like to play stuff like Metallica, Black Sabbath and other things like that but correct me if I'm wrong, it won't be a problem, will it?
This is a good reference from the tone that I'm looking for:
It's important to give some add info:
- I will be playing/studying only at home for now so yeah, a high volume could be a problem because I live in a apartment. The Covid situation is bad here in my country, so for now i don't have anything set about a band. I have a drummer friend and we talked about a future cenario to do some reheases and maybe some little presentations after. I wanted to get an amp that in the future I could use on these ocasions.
- After hearing the 2525H sound, i started to feel the DSL40cr sounding more fat than the Jubilee on the videos. I don't know if it's the way that the guys are configuring de EQ of the amp but it seems that the DSL sounds a little bit different
When it comes to the clean sound, it is something that concerns me. I will start to enumerate
1 - I also like so much to play Pink Floyd songs (I already have a stratocaster that helps me with the Gilmour tone) and I need to know if I would be able to get a clean tone to be like a "base sound" to my modulation pedals (like phaser and etc) and play songs like Breath, Coming Back To Life and Us And Them without having the amp starting to saturate.
2 - I think that this is a consequence of the first item. I am aware about shared gain control, so if I use a low gain to get a clean tone on first channel, i'm afraid of when I turn to the lead channel it could sound weak or very low gain. So, in that case a boost pedal could fill that 'gap'? Maybe a tube screamer or something like that? The goal in that case would be using
the lead channel + boost pedal to sound similar or so good as if was using the just the lead channel + gain knob. Just making it clear that I won't be using this specific 'config' on the amp the whole time. I am very satisfied how the amp sounds on the lead channel and the clean channel with more gain and sometimes I will use just like that.
3 - And for now, getting that clean sound (low gain) without getting the amp saturated, is the clean sound good or do it depends on the gain knob to give body to the sound? Before someone tell me to forget the amp if I'm looking just for cleans, I am just trying to figure if I can get same versatility from the clean/drive channels like the DSL would provide.
I could sumarize everything on getting the jube tone with the DSL vesatility for the clean and gain control.
Sorry for the long thread