Jake E Lee Friedman JEL 50 First Look

[@jimmyray_hawkins]

Thanks!🤟

[@AdrianNWB]

Another great demo. Absolutely nothing wrong with using a boost with this amp, seeing as Lee himself always boosted his own amps.

[@josephhulsey7662]

Great demo bud! I’d have a blast with this amp. Right in my wheelhouse of rock/hardrock. My fav Jake tones are his Badlands tones and guitar romping. Always come by here to check your vids despite me not being a modern, high gain player. Entertaining and great amp demos. Keep em coming!

[@jeffhirshberg5171]

Great demo, Jarrod.

[@cragginshred]

Save the chugga for modern amps we want to hear classic metal from the 80’s out of an anp like this Also turn the mids up to make it sound so much better 😮

[@acbenitez3614]

To really get it to sound harder with this kind of amp, do all that, add the boost, and, crank the volume. Like wine gets better with age, this design appears to get better with power amp drive.

[@sheldonswan45]

Kinda surprised the SAT switch wasn’t included…

[@thomasstankiewicz9730]

Because the 100 didn’t have one I believe that’s why

[@voxpathfinder15r]

Great job Jarrod!

[@Bognerman14]

That first section of this video... Your album you just played on this video is killer. I am getting it. What amp did you use on that for rhythm. Lord that sound great. I want a JEL now.

[@TONEWARSgearshow]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. On the album, I combined the victory Kraken with the Engl Savage for the rhythm. The lead was done on the savage.

[@mhoff7722]

Nice job!! So does the JEL 50 have as much gain as the JEL 20 just more headroom and oomph for lack of a better term...and a depth control? Of does the stock 20 have more gain with that added sat switch?

[@TONEWARSgearshow]

Thank you. I'm glad you liked the video. To your question, I am in the process of shooting those amps out right now. The video should be up later today.

[@mhoff7722]

@@TONEWARSgearshow Haha of course you are! Always reading my mind and one step ahead!! No rest for the YT gear reviewers. I appreciate all your hard work man! 🤘🤘🤘

[@jrlee243]

It definitely got enough gain for me and how i would use it. Playing live metal music with two guitars going, it's enough gain in that situation. I own a HBE,and a 50 runt. I have used both for metal tones in live situation. Normally, the other guitarist would be using some type of 5015 or a Reto. It balanced out pretty well. Great showing sounds really good. Are you going to Q.C. it?

[@TONEWARSgearshow]

Thanks for commenting. Yes, I will definitely be making some captures

[@b-freesatellite3582]

Really liked my JEL 20 plexi channel but I could never get the lead channel to be warm enough. Any guitar seemed to have to much high end treble / presence Great amp for me on the Plexi side.

[@Murphy_R9]

@Jarod, ,ever consider having a super strat loaded with a Duncan JB or Dimarzio Super distortion(or even a EMG 81) laying around to demo these lower gain Marshall type heads? The lower gain Marshall type heads really do sound best with those pickups as opposed to the modern Petrucci dimarzio's which were designed to use with midrange heavy higher gain Mesa amps for John.

[@TONEWARSgearshow]

One of these days, I'm going to buy a project guitar and swap pickups out in it and stuff. For now, I have to hang on to my money.

[@Murphy_R9]

@@TONEWARSgearshow Completely understandable! 👍

[@Murphy_R9]

Have You'been practicing guitar more lately? Sounds like you have improved? Or Is that new Jake amp just that good? 😁

[@9th_note]

i brought my axe to MC to get new pots and when i came to pick it up i plugged into the 20w version. The guitar has Mick Thompson blackouts pups which I like to jokingly say are basically like having a boost built into your guitar because of how ridiculously hard they push amps and ran it through a boost which was some kind of Boss they had in there at the time and man that fucker sounded mean for a lil 20w dad rock amp. I am more of a high gain guy myself but not bad, not bad at all. Great video man, hope to run into you at Motor city one of these days n say sup...

[@TONEWARSgearshow]

Thanks for commenting. Yeah this amplifier has a lot of kick to it, especially when you boost it. I'm going to do a video of it with the Mr scary mod installed. Wait till you hear that. It would definitely be nice to meet you as well. I'm in that store all the time and I run into people all the time there. Looking forward to hopefully meeting you soon.

[@mannymejia7972]

Still waiting for some JEL kemper packs.

[@TONEWARSgearshow]

Thanks for commenting. I'll be working on those tomorrow. Do you prefer DI or Studio captures?

[@mannymejia7972]

@ I actually prefer DI but can roll with either.

[@BradRocker]

I'm like'in what I'm hearing.

[@turnuptheradio6057]

Love the 20 way better.

[@rocketsauce5067]

For shits and giggles you should do a country back road dixie cup truck hunting dog song. Ye haw. I forgot sugar shaker red dirt girl. There are probably some other tropes that I missed but, You know that. Come on man.😂

[@TONEWARSgearshow]

Haha, I'll give that a try someday

[@saltpeter7429]

Come on now, I resemble that comment. I mean resent. Lol.

[@bradleywood1499]

It's going to be impossible to get this amp to open up and come alive with the master that low.

[@SyzygyEmbrace]

Dang Friedman is not making it easy for the GAS. I was eyeballing the lunchbox version for a while

[@kmetal83]

Same riff

[@TONEWARSgearshow]

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[@scottpeters4401]

I seem to like the JEL20 a bit better..

[@cimmeriakurt]

Probably wouldn't sound good w my PRS WOOD LIBRARY playing CLAPTON

[@jeffhutchins6874]

🤢

[@josephrusso7069]

Great demo and playing. The amp is just not bright enough for me. That's why I'm selling my Redseven The Dirt.

[@paulmales1889]

Not bright enough , may I be as bold to suggest that you must have hearing issues 🤔🤣

[@setok.7134]

It would have been nice if the amp was less wide, that way it could sit on top of a 212 Vertical cab and look symmetrical

[@didamnesia3575]

You want a lunchbox 20 Watt amp. 50W and 100W are full size amps, full width, full size power transformers

[@setok.7134]

@@didamnesia3575 not quite, the EVH 5150 50 watt, Revv G50, victory amps, and Mesa Badlander 50 are good examples of this trend already happening.

[@setok.7134]

@@didamnesia3575 except, we already have a Revv G50, Mesa Badlander 50, EVH 5150 50, kraken amps, and a few others that already do what I’m suggesting.

[@didamnesia3575]

@@setok.7134 smaller transformers. The jel 50 is full size

[@didamnesia3575]

@@setok.7134 sounds like you have your amps set then. You could always build your own cab, or be less ocd

[@draper858]

Meh…. I’m not into the flub in the low end. I loved my runt 50 when I had it though so that surprised me the jel50 didn’t blow me away .

[@asianaxeman]

It's very dry sounding and harsh.. Not convinced it's a great tone.

[@johndigioia6499]

i wouldn’t pay $3000 for this amp gtfoh ! good review on your end but no way man that’s a money grab if i ever seen one