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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I’m proper chuffed.
I hated the Amp1 and my bandmates complained bitterly that it was totally lost in the mix.
I'd take a Katana any day.
horrible fizzy thing
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Still, I respect the opinions of others who didn't like it. That's the story of all amps, surely? Including Katanas...
He’s something of a tone obsessive - so I assume they can be made to work well.
It is all analogue (apart from the digital reverb). The preamp is solid state, the first stage of the power amp is the nanotube and then it goes into a class D power amp behind. There two channels, IMHO, not four. "Four" is just marketing guff. There's a clean channel and an overdrive channel. The overdrive channel has three different voicings available - vintage, classic and modern. (That's how people get the channel count to four). I use clean and the vintage voice most of the time. Both are fine with pedals. The idea is you balance the volume between clean and overdrive using the standard preamp volume controls on the top of the amp and balance between the three overdrive voicings using the little rotaries on the side of the amp. As ICBM experienced, that is hard to get right and I don't use it that way. On these channels, the amp lets the guitar sound come through, so you can use the guitar controls for tonal variation, rather than going over to the amp and twiddling tone settings between songs.
What many people don't realise is the tone controls on the top of the amp are not for adjusting your guitar tone so it sounds nice to your ears on a song-by-song basis. They are for adjusting your overall tonality so you sit in the band mix nicely in the room you're in. They don't work like the preamp controls on a standard guitar amp. They aren't interdependent. They are like a channel strip on a mixer. At a venue, you get the guitar to sit in the mix and just leave them there for the evening. I start at 5/10 on each one and adjust accordingly. Yes, I can find that my guitar tone (in isolation) sometimes isn't as nice as I'd like, but it sits in the mix well and sounds good there.
Back to the OP. I think an AMP1 would do what you're looking for, but it's an expensive way of doing it compared to other choices mentioned. At home, I don't use it much - I've got a 1W Sheldon and a 6W Harlequin. With a band, though, I really like using it.
It still loses some bass dynamics for me at higher volumes that another go at tweaking the EQ may solve but all in all im not missing my Mesa at all plus im £500 up!