Techdeth
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Just wondering what all amps you guys find great for this application. Do you use your high gain amp or a separate amp ? I myself use an Mesa Electrodyne for cleans and gritty crunch along with my high gain amp.
Exo-metal
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IIC+/++ the cleans are that good imo.
gibson5413
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My favorite for both a clean and crunch channel is the 3rd Power Kitchen Sink. The clean can morph from a blackface clean to a Vox clean. The crunch side is inspired by a Marshall 68 plexi superlead. My favorite amp!
BeZo
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My Rivera Knucklehead did both really well. I miss it already.
Emg77
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I think the Fryette Deliverance is outstanding for clean and crunch as well as high gain for that matter. I love that amp . I don’t know why I don’t have one!!!
Techdeth
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Another way it’s king ?
Techdeth
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I’d love to try one .
Techdeth
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Fender like cleans ?
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turtlefingers
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I like my CCV.
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gtrwun
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Gjika 10n is the best clean/low gain for me.
Add pedals as needed. The Gjika fuzz and gainmaster are great additions. Work perfectly with the amp.
I will say my Hiwatt gets great clean/crunch tones too. Hard to beat. So &uckin loud though!
Add pedals as needed. The Gjika fuzz and gainmaster are great additions. Work perfectly with the amp.
I will say my Hiwatt gets great clean/crunch tones too. Hard to beat. So &uckin loud though!
Techdeth
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Both amps I’ve yet to even see in real life . Very cool
glpg80
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My Laney can get insane good crunch and clean tones on the low input.
Techdeth
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Sounds great ! My friend had this but I don’t think he played the clean channel . Very cool
glpg80
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Yeah it’s an unknown feature this model has that many don’t even know about. It can do blues on the low input with ease using any run of the mill blues driver. Cleans with no pedal at all. Switch to the hi input using a simple pedal and you’ve got your modded JCM800 madness.
It’s worth noting you cannot get away with doing that in a normal JCM800 because there’s a massive volume drop on the low input. Laney did a great job balancing the channels and adding the 4th gain stage. It’s a Swiss Army knife of an amp that isn’t a one trick pony. I wouldn’t hesitate to grab the Laney as a reliable backup since it’s not complex at all.
Techdeth
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I actually am looking up more clips of it now
stephen sawall
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Any of these four THD amps
Bivalve 30
Flexi 50
Deco 36
Series One Plexi
alund
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I used to play through a Roland JC120. Clean was insanely nice.
rottingcorpse
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If I want a clean sound, I'll play an acoustic.
Note....I don't own an acoustic.
Note....I don't own an acoustic.
BeZo
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Yeah. Really chimey cleans that can get up to crunch territory. The Ninja Boost was a cool feature too. It was like a clean boost on the clean channel for more oomph on demand. I never really kicked it on, because I never did any clean solos, but it was neat.
I guess my Verellen Skyhammer can fall into this camp also. Mine has an added bright switch on the clean channel, but I wish the presence knob wasn't global. I feel like a channel presence by the individual gain knobs would be cool, as well as a master post fx. Delay tails would pop to a new volume if I switched channels while they were ringing out.
fek
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I have said it before but Rivera's have the best clean channels that I have played on any amp that I have ever owned. At least on the four different Rivera's that I have owned. Very versatile so going from tweed to blackface type of tones are just a couple knob twists away. Loves pedals too.