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59' RI Bassman, Mmmmmmm!
59' RI Bassman, Mmmmmmm!
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Re: Your Favorite Clean Amp
Hey Fritz -
+1 on the JC 120 head. They're out there, and they're inexpensive. Another thing - pretty much any quality solid state amp is going to have a better clean than the B side of a high gainer...
If dedicated tube clean is what your're after, I suggest looking into either the Victoria, Carr or Bruno amps...not cheap, but you get what you pay for.
Steve EComment
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I have a 68 Bandmaster, and it is absolutely a beautiful clean. Old Fender stuff is great.
ShawnComment
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what's a "clean" amp...? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I dunno these things.. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]"Bill, Smoke a Bowl and Crank Van Halen I, Life is better when I do that"
Donnie Swanstrom 01/25/06..miss ya!
"Well, your friend would have Bell's Palsy, which is a facial paralysis, not "Balls Pelsy" like we're joking about here." Toejam's attempt at sensitivity.Comment
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For me the blackface Fender amps are the standard for cleans. Preferably a higher power one (Bassman or Twin). The big iron keeps the low end rock solid. Once you get used to one it will totally ruin you when it comes to dealing with the cleans in a channel switcher.
As much as I like the idea of a Diezel or Uberschall I don't see the point in a high-dollar do-all amp (with about 50 knobs and switches) when they have a shitty clean sound. I haven't played the Soldano Avenger but like the idea of a brutal single channel amp ($1000 used), $400 BF Bassman head, and then a head switcher running into a single cabinet.Comment
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Only thing I don't like about fender amps is that to me they sound pretty craptacular with humbuckers. I could get a really nice neck humbucker clean with the superdrive that just had a warmth and body to it that Fenders I've owned lacked. Probably just different strokes for different folks - I've owned blackface, tweed and silverface fenders from '59 to the 70s. Loved em with strats, but with humbuckers... ugh. I did like the tweed with humbuckers, but never really used the tweed princeton as a 'clean' amp - it did the early ZZ top thing to a T.
One other multi channel and that has a killer clean - egnater TOL. Has more sparkle than the superdrive but isn't as grating on the ears to me as say a fender twin.
PeteComment
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Acoustic 150 - I have one of these. It gets loud as piss, is very clean, and surprisingly warm. The tremolo and reverb are great too.I want REAL change. I want dead bodies littering the capitol.
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My 59' Bassman sounds great with the 57' RI paul, neck or bridge.Comment
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I agree with Pete on Fenders. I really like Fender cleans with Fender guitars, but I've never liked those amps with any of my humbucker guitars. I also agree on the TOL clean. The pre-Rockton TOL I had was possibly the best clean I've ever played (into an open back cab). My Rocktron TOL was also excellent, though definitely not as good clean as the pre-R was.Comment
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with Humbuckers? Peavey Classic 100......"Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is. ":JOSEY WALESComment
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a buddy of mine is an amp collector - he has at least 30 amps of all different makes and models. he's into hand wired stuff - it's all old. a vast majority os fender. so of the amps that i have (fender prosonic and real 63 deluxe reverb) and have played there - fender is your best bet.Comment
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My Uberschall....
when I back off on my guitar volume knob..???!!! [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]"Bill, Smoke a Bowl and Crank Van Halen I, Life is better when I do that"
Donnie Swanstrom 01/25/06..miss ya!
"Well, your friend would have Bell's Palsy, which is a facial paralysis, not "Balls Pelsy" like we're joking about here." Toejam's attempt at sensitivity.Comment
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As much as I like the idea of a Diezel or Uberschall I don't see the point in a high-dollar do-all amp (with about 50 knobs and switches) when they have a shitty clean sound. I haven't played the Soldano Avenger but like the idea of a brutal single channel amp ($1000 used), $400 BF Bassman head, and then a head switcher running into a single cabinet.
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+1
That is exactly the direction I am going in.Comment
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It is the only real way to have your clean and eat it too.
I never played live with an amp switcher but I have always wanted to. It is actually a pretty simple system. Personally, I like SS clean better than tube clean. My Randall RG100ES had a great clean channel. So does my Laney PL100HR. They are both light, bulletproof, sound great and are inexpensive. Maybe I should gig with the Carvin MTS3200 and the Laney?? hmm...Comment
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fender amps can sound good with humbuckers but they have to be lower output. i had an ibanez RG560 with a duncan seth lover and 2 antiquity single coils and that was the best "clean" guitar i ever had. my PC-1 with the PAF pro sounds really nice through a clean fender also. any of my JB, custom, or custom/custom pick up loaded guitars overdrive the front of the fender too much to sound good clean. EMG's, forget it!!! they slam the front too hard, especially on a non master volume fender.GEAR:
some guitars...WITH STRINGS!!!! most of them have those sticks like on guitar hero....AWESOME!!!!
some amps...they have some glowing bottle like things in them...i think my amps do that modelling thing....COOL, huh?!?!?!
and finally....
i have those little plastic "chips" used to hit the strings...WHOA!!!!Comment
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