Topic: Catagory 5 Joe B JUB Combo

Hi all
I just received my Catagoy 5 Joe B JUB Combo. Like its big brother this thing is amazing. I tested it side by side with a Marshall Silver JUB Combo and like its big brother that I tested side by side a Marshall Silver Jub head it beats the Marshall hands down. And like its big brother the added toneal possibilities with the Rhythm channel with the added saturation and level controls make it more versatile then the Marshall Silver Jub. As with anything it is in the ears of the listiner. I hope to have audio clips by the end of Feb.
Cheers Ron

"Joe B saved my soul, forever grateful Ron"
"Some people dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them"
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Does Don's take on the Jubilee operate such that steady volume levels when switching between channels is possible?

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Congrats Ron!  Is the Category 5 Joe B JUB Combo a new offering or a special order? 

Boy you're going to be busy the next month or so putting together all your clips lol

Jim

Re: Catagory 5 Joe B JUB Combo

can't wait to hear some of that!!!

Congratulations Ron!

5 (edited by cindyron 2012-01-11 23:38:25)

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jclark42796 wrote:

Congrats Ron!  Is the Category 5 Joe B JUB Combo a new offering or a special order? 

Boy you're going to be busy the next month or so putting together all your clips lol

Jim

Hi Jim
It is a new offering as of a few months ago. If you are interested contact Don Ritter at Catagory 5, don@category5amps.com, tell him I referred you. They do not have it on there web site yet. They also have the 100w head but also not on web site. Not sure when it will be there. Don is really great to work with. He will be able to answer all your questions. See Don Ritters input on the thread" Silver Jub Settings" that he posted today
Cheers Ron

"Joe B saved my soul, forever grateful Ron"
"Some people dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them"
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Spider wrote:

can't wait to hear some of that!!!

Congratulations Ron!

thanks Spider
Cheers Ron

"Joe B saved my soul, forever grateful Ron"
"Some people dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them"
Skinner #1,JBLP 145(aged),252, (unaged),#285HM, Bburst #026, Joes 052 BCC black LP, Strat> RT,EC Gilmour,Beck,Lenny LP> PK 83,CC#2,3,4,9,Amps>Carol Ann RAH JB-100 SN 001,JB100 Red SN02,OD2, OD3,Tucana 2&3 Triptix,Twinkle land, Plexi ,JB Jub, Jubs,Plexi,Satch,Two Rock>others

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Ron,


If there is no info on their site, can you tell us about the amp itself?....watts?...speaker(s)?....etc?

Barry

2009 Gibson Les Paul 1958 VOS (with black plastic)
2008 Gibson Les Paul Traditional Goldtop (with the cream plastic from the 58RI)
> Marshall Bluesbreaker 2 pedal >Boss sd-1> DD3 > Vox Ac15cc1

8 (edited by cindyron 2012-01-12 10:08:36)

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LesPaul4 wrote:

Ron,


If there is no info on their site, can you tell us about the amp itself?....watts?...speaker(s)?....etc?

Barry

Hi Barry
It is a 50W 2x12 (see pics) with Jensen Neos. The rhythm channel is different and more tonal qualities available then Marshall Silver Jub. This channel can now keep up with the Lead channel. See pics for controls. Has Mid boost switch and a power control for reduced levels. The Catagory 5 Joe B JUB Combo along with there 100w head models are extremly quite unlike most Marshall Silver Jubilees I have tried.
Some pics:
http://s1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd4 … b%20Combo/
Below is what Don Ritter commented on a thread under the Gear section of Joe’s forum “Settings for Jubille”
“I can't quite get to the level of detail Alan has shared here (I'm the marketing end of it-and a Petroleum Engineer by first degree,MBA by second-which means I only have 3 hours of EE-but I do have an audio engineer and a software engineer as designers on staff), but we started with a Jub style layout, and converted it point to point(eyelet board for you purists), and then began to change things a bit. Ours still uses diodes in the Drive channel, but we have removed the rhythm clipping function and replaced it with a mid boost switch-which works on both channels, much like what we do on his superlead style amp. We use sozo caps, a bit more filtering, pec pots, mercury mag transformers, essentially the best components we can find. The big difference is in the clean channel, where we have wired in a tube treble boost pedal of our own design into the front end of the clean channel. this allows the clean channel(which was anemic in our opinion) to be boosted up so it can hang with the drive channel and have a little more sparkle. It has its own saturation and level control, so you can get a very loud clean independent of the drive channel and output master set up. It still shares the input gain and output mater, but with the added saturation and level control, you can dial in a big clean or a dirty rhythm sound that has same relative levels as the drive channel, making the switching function more useful. The saturation also lets you get to a black crowes and ac/dc set of tones on the clean channel that sound very plexish(like the 68 style). We also added a low and high input so joe could run a therimin easily into either channel setting. This amp will clean up very nicely on either the drive or the clean channel. So we tried to cure it of the known complaints without changing the character of the drive channel too much. Joe let us do what we wished on the clean channel. The half power switch is a bit different as well. The amp is dead quite vs the originals that have a bit of inherent noise(some more than others as Alan mentioned). The loop is great, and we have grafted it onto several of our other amp designs, with a few tweaks. The 50 watter is same layout, only the half power switch is replaced with a power dampening style control for stage volume. DonR”
Cheers Ron

"Joe B saved my soul, forever grateful Ron"
"Some people dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them"
Skinner #1,JBLP 145(aged),252, (unaged),#285HM, Bburst #026, Joes 052 BCC black LP, Strat> RT,EC Gilmour,Beck,Lenny LP> PK 83,CC#2,3,4,9,Amps>Carol Ann RAH JB-100 SN 001,JB100 Red SN02,OD2, OD3,Tucana 2&3 Triptix,Twinkle land, Plexi ,JB Jub, Jubs,Plexi,Satch,Two Rock>others

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Very cool Ron!

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sweet...Thanks Ron!!!

2009 Gibson Les Paul 1958 VOS (with black plastic)
2008 Gibson Les Paul Traditional Goldtop (with the cream plastic from the 58RI)
> Marshall Bluesbreaker 2 pedal >Boss sd-1> DD3 > Vox Ac15cc1

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Thank thing is gorgeous!!!!  GASing for one now!!!!

2009 Gibson Les Paul 1958 VOS (with black plastic)
2008 Gibson Les Paul Traditional Goldtop (with the cream plastic from the 58RI)
> Marshall Bluesbreaker 2 pedal >Boss sd-1> DD3 > Vox Ac15cc1

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LesPaul4 wrote:

Thank thing is gorgeous!!!!  GASing for one now!!!!

Thanks
Did you notice the signiture on the back face plate?
Cheers ROn

"Joe B saved my soul, forever grateful Ron"
"Some people dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them"
Skinner #1,JBLP 145(aged),252, (unaged),#285HM, Bburst #026, Joes 052 BCC black LP, Strat> RT,EC Gilmour,Beck,Lenny LP> PK 83,CC#2,3,4,9,Amps>Carol Ann RAH JB-100 SN 001,JB100 Red SN02,OD2, OD3,Tucana 2&3 Triptix,Twinkle land, Plexi ,JB Jub, Jubs,Plexi,Satch,Two Rock>others

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That is one fine piece of gear right there.

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Yeah Ron...I caught that...

2009 Gibson Les Paul 1958 VOS (with black plastic)
2008 Gibson Les Paul Traditional Goldtop (with the cream plastic from the 58RI)
> Marshall Bluesbreaker 2 pedal >Boss sd-1> DD3 > Vox Ac15cc1

Re: Catagory 5 Joe B JUB Combo

cindyron wrote:
jclark42796 wrote:

Congrats Ron!  Is the Category 5 Joe B JUB Combo a new offering or a special order? 

Boy you're going to be busy the next month or so putting together all your clips lol

Jim

Hi Jim
It is a new offering as of a few months ago. If you are interested contact Don Ritter at Catagory 5, don@category5amps.com, tell him I referred you. They do not have it on there web site yet. They also have the 100w head but also not on web site. Not sure when it will be there. Don is really great to work with. He will be able to answer all your questions. See Don Ritters input on the thread" Silver Jub Settings" that he posted today
Cheers Ron

Thanks Ron!  Just when I thought I was leaning towards the OD3r, this pops up.  You're not making things easy lol  Would love to hear a comparison when you have time.

Re: Catagory 5 Joe B JUB Combo

jclark42796 wrote:
cindyron wrote:
jclark42796 wrote:

Congrats Ron!  Is the Category 5 Joe B JUB Combo a new offering or a special order? 

Boy you're going to be busy the next month or so putting together all your clips lol

Jim

Hi Jim
It is a new offering as of a few months ago. If you are interested contact Don Ritter at Catagory 5, don@category5amps.com, tell him I referred you. They do not have it on there web site yet. They also have the 100w head but also not on web site. Not sure when it will be there. Don is really great to work with. He will be able to answer all your questions. See Don Ritters input on the thread" Silver Jub Settings" that he posted today
Cheers Ron

Thanks Ron!  Just when I thought I was leaning towards the OD3r, this pops up.  You're not making things easy lol  Would love to hear a comparison when you have time.

Hi Jim
Not to make it harder on you but and OD3r and a Cat5 JoeB Jub Combo would be absolutly killer dual rig. If you want the chimmey ringing beuatiful tone out of a Carol Ann with and overdrive like no other go for it. I have found the Carol Ann to be very articulte which I love. We are taking about two sonically different amps. I love them both. Each brings something different to your creative palete. If you want that MUCH MUCH improved Marshall Silver Jub tone get the Catagory 5 Joe B Jub. It beats the Marshall Silver Jub hands down. Again this is strickly my opnion everyone hears things differently.
Cheers Ron
Cheers Ron

"Joe B saved my soul, forever grateful Ron"
"Some people dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them"
Skinner #1,JBLP 145(aged),252, (unaged),#285HM, Bburst #026, Joes 052 BCC black LP, Strat> RT,EC Gilmour,Beck,Lenny LP> PK 83,CC#2,3,4,9,Amps>Carol Ann RAH JB-100 SN 001,JB100 Red SN02,OD2, OD3,Tucana 2&3 Triptix,Twinkle land, Plexi ,JB Jub, Jubs,Plexi,Satch,Two Rock>others

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BEAUTIFUL Ron...congrats...and thanks for sharing

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That looks like one hell of an amp, congrats; now i have my next goal for saving money....;-)