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What's you favourite 1x12 (or 1x10) combo that is a good all rounder? Can cover clean, either warm and jazzy or country twang, to glassy Strat neck pickup crunch up to hard rock with a Les Paul.
What is your desert island combo?
I don't think I've found it yet...
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Which I've just gone and sold
I've been having a bit of an amp nightmare this year (why should this year be any different!)
Just about to return a 2nd faulty Morgan PR12 and despite having loved it previously am now looking to go in a different direction with my sound. Hell, I've even set my Strat trem back to floating and found the trem arem in the bottom drawer and fitted it.
I'm having a gear change and will be looking for a new amp and my pedal board is going too and will be replaced with alternatives. Maybe even go back to a Helix!
I'm looking to get into some more ambient pushed clean, just into break up sounds with washes of delay and reverb, rather than the bluesy rock rut I have been in.
I'm looking for that ubiquitous all rounder, and love a 1x12 combo. Never had a plexi style amp so looking at their Pink Taco, also thinking about the Mesa Rect-o-verb 25 or Boogie 5/25+.
I love the sound of the plexi style amps with not too much gain with a Strat, just beyond pushed clean.
I know the clean channel gets plenty of favourable comments, but the drive channel not so much. What in particular do you like about the HRD? I've not tried one. The closest I got was owning a blues Jr back in 2001, which despite it's reputation, I quite liked when I played it in the shop but it sounded awful at home volume.
As for the volume thing - I've just bought a gizmo for £20 that sits in the send return loop and tames it. Sounds epic.
This video (whilst rambling etc) is actually pretty good at showing what it sounds like.
Chuck a couple of good pedals in front and it'll do anything.
Firstly I changed the speaker to a V30 which was good for drive sounds but the clean rhythm was not sweet (so to speak). However, it cut well in a band context. Then I changed the speaker to a V-Type which seemed like a better match to me. I tried the V-type because MIke Landau uses them in his signature combo which is a (sort of) related type of amp.
The only thing I had against the HRD was the weight, which was too much for an old fart like me. Now I've got a 1 x 12 Blues Cube Artist which is much lighter and has a decent sound.
Carr Rambler.
I dont believe that there are many amps that can do great cleans to crunch.
So, the cleans are hardest to find - and the Rambler has this in spades.
Crunch - Pedals are the answer here with the Rambler, as it takes pedals SO well.
A superb all-rounder of an amp, that let's you notice the subtle variance of each pick up...
Takes pedals like a champ and though single channel the various tone switching options make it highly versatile and easy to dial in with very different guitars from the twangiest Tele to the darkest humbucking beast.
Theoretically the current “Plus” version covers even more ground with the addition of the graphic EQ, a second master volume, and multiple channel assignable power settings but for my money the “grab and go” simplicity (for a Mesa product), the smaller cab size of the 1x10” format, and the fact that I already own it means the original version wins out...
My only real complaints are the inaccessible DIN plug for the footswitch and that the “Clean” and “Crunch” modes are on the same channel so I can’t use them together but since “Clean” dials up to a decent Crunch (which then cleans up beautifully on the guitar volume), and “Blues” dials down to a decent clean that’s a very, very, very long way from a show-stopper.
H&K TM1812 - what I currently use
Brunetti Maranello - wish I hadn’t sold it
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