Best clean amp(s) you’ve played/owned

agibbo

My old Fender Prosonic on the clean channel was glorious! Wish I'd never sold it.

impmann

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe - just awesome. There’s a reason Fender have sold so many.
HiWatt - Just. The. Best.
Vox AC30 - huge and unique.

JerkMoans

Jimbro66 said:

Teyeplayer said:

Still kicking myself for not picking this up when it was available. Eli Abbott makes a sweet amp. 

Me too but it was too awkward to get to Peterborough. Good to see that it’s stayed with you beyond the honeymoon period Mark. I kept an eye on the classifieds just in case 

Sorry chaps.  One of the (very) few bits of kit my recent gear frenzy has left standing.  I'll note you both down in my little black book for when the inevitable flippage hormones rise...

DrCornelius

JC - 120

rsvmark

My Two Rock- beer optional

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crunchman

Think I prefer warmer Tweed cleans.  The Lazy J 20 is lovely.  If that's not enough power, then Jesse does make bigger amps.

Barney

My RD dualist 100 watt...I have it set at 80 watts I think it is using tweed option ...the cleans are the best of any amp I have played ...it uses 2 tayden speakers ..a true brit and great brit ..I think...

The drives are just as good as the clean 

Dominic

Rambler or Carr Slant V6

bbill335

impmann said:

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe - just awesome. There’s a reason Fender have sold so many.

I'm using one at practice tonight (green one, better speaker maybe?) and i gotta say, it's very meh. Fine, but not awesome. 

roberty

I'm well into my '74 pro reverb although my idea of clean is not very clean. I took V1 out for less headroom. The best clean sounds imo are when you're on the verge of clipping, nice and compressed and harmonically rich, so a wattage appropriate to your stage level is crucial I think

Wazmeister

Dominic said:

Rambler or Carr Slant V6

X 2

ICBM

Mesa Blue Angel. The best clean sound of any amp I’ve ever heard, and the Simul setting is 38W. It came as a 1x12”, 2x10”, 4x10” or head - but they’re all very rare apart from the 1x12”.

impmann

bbill335 said:

impmann said:

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe - just awesome. There’s a reason Fender have sold so many.

I'm using one at practice tonight (green one, better speaker maybe?) and i gotta say, it's very meh. Fine, but not awesome. 

Each to their own, eh? :-)

Perhaps its not in the best of health - valves and bias can make a massive difference on them. 

ICBM

impmann said:

bbill335 said:

I'm using one at practice tonight (green one, better speaker maybe?) and i gotta say, it's very meh. Fine, but not awesome. 

Each to their own, eh? :-)

Perhaps its not in the best of health - valves and bias can make a massive difference on them. 

If it’s the green Limited Edition one, it may have a V30... totally the wrong speaker for that amp, makes it really loud in a shouty and characterless way.

impmann

ICBM said:

impmann said:

bbill335 said:

I'm using one at practice tonight (green one, better speaker maybe?) and i gotta say, it's very meh. Fine, but not awesome. 

Each to their own, eh? :-)

Perhaps its not in the best of health - valves and bias can make a massive difference on them. 

If it’s the green Limited Edition one, it may have a V30... totally the wrong speaker for that amp, makes it really loud in a shouty and characterless way.

V30? Yuk... thats not going to sound right.

ICBM

impmann said:

V30? Yuk... thats not going to sound right.

No, but it’s the only premium speaker there is! If you go by what a lot of manufacturers seem to think, anyway.

It’s a great speaker - in multiple-speaker, heavy cabinets driven by powerful, overdriven amps for hard rock and modern metal sounds.

So obviously the right choice for a clean, open-back combo which is used for everything *but* that type of sound! NOT...

WiresDreamDisasters

I love the clean tones on the Orange Rockerverb MK3 I have. But since getting my VHT Sig X again recently, I realised how much I have been missing the sparkly 'Fender-ish' cleans from that. It's a bit noisy but beautiful sounding.

Fuengi

ICBM said:

Mesa Blue Angel. The best clean sound of any amp I’ve ever heard, and the Simul setting is 38W. It came as a 1x12”, 2x10”, 4x10” or head - but they’re all very rare apart from the 1x12”.

Is it much different to the Maverick? 

grappagreen

ToneControl said:

Ceriatone HRM Bluesmaster 50W into 2 Alnico Celestion Golds
Basically a blackface Dumble clone, tweaked towards John Mayer

I concur - exactly my rig

I would also add a Carr Rambler, LE Deltone, 5E3 (at low vol and setup correctly!)

Si

ICBM

Fuengi said:

Is it much different to the Maverick? 

Yes, quite a lot - it's a bigger, clearer sound even compared to the clean channel on the Maverick - but much more a one-sound amp. I had both, and decided that I needed the much greater versatility of the Maverick and that it could cover the clean sound, so I sold the Blue Angel - luckily to a friend, so I still know where it is! - but afterwards realised that I had just preferred the Blue Angel... I miss it far more than the Maverick.