The clean does well with pedals. It’s a very full sound, think like a two rock or something. Not a super scooped blackface.
70s mode on the red channel is such a good Marshall with bogner flavor adjustable as desired. The gain eq knob takes it from upper mid classic Marshall to lower mid...
Goldfinger Superlead. Best clean channel in a bogner, low to mid gain Marshall tones with some upper mid punch, and an option to use diode clipping to get all the 80s tones you could want. Add in a great loop, configurable boost for each channel, and a half power switch.
I just got an Era 30, kind of a modernized matchless C30. Great amp, made in America hand wired, etc. glad to support them with $ to keep making amps in the U.S.
I have one preordered. Not sure when it’ll come in though. I currently have no modeling or sim device, so it’ll be good for convenience playing out somewhere small.
The micro cortex is better in my opinion, but the stomp is cool. Had both at the same time for a while. The capture tech and online library made for better core amp tones.
I think preamp modeling is pretty much “there”, as is cab modeling when recording to a DAW. Playing the whole chain (preamp, power amp, cab) in the room is still a problem, which is why your clip sounds so kickass: it’s going into the recto power amp and cab.
Modelers with the cab turned off...