Clean Amp

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Spent years playing Fender silverface stuff. They generally had useful clean sounds, especially the Princeton Reverb or Pro Reverb. Wish I still had both, at times.

My Mesa Boogie mk III actually has a very balanced clean sound. I've been impressed by how versatile this amp is time and time again.
 
loveofjazz said:
Spent years playing Fender silverface stuff. They generally had useful clean sounds, especially the Princeton Reverb or Pro Reverb. Wish I still had both, at times.

My Mesa Boogie mk III actually has a very balanced clean sound. I've been impressed by how versatile this amp is time and time again.
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Yeah, a Princeton Reverb is on my short list- I suspect I might like it even better than my Deluxe Reverb, and I kinda wish I'd kept the SF Pro Reverb I once had. Previous owner had been a touring C&W guitarist, and had a Nashville amp tech go through the entire amp, making it dead-reliable and road-worthy. The PO had also painted the entire cab tolex dark blue,:confused: which shot a big hole in the amp's value, but man, what a great amp!
 
See if you can find a YGL-3A Mark III to play through. i came across one of these in a music store and it had some of the nicest cleans i have heard and a decent reverb and tremelo if i recall. They wanted 650 and a google search showed that some of these have gone for as little as $400. So now i look for a great deal on one now and again. This is a full sized head made in the 70's.

Dave
 
daav said:
See if you can find a YGL-3A Mark III to play through. i came across one of these in a music store and it had some of the nicest cleans i have heard and a decent reverb and tremelo if i recall. They wanted 650 and a google search showed that some of these have gone for as little as $400. So now i look for a great deal on one now and again. This is a full sized head made in the 70's.
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:D

I use to own a Mark III and matching 412 cab. Bought it new back in '75...used it for a lot of gigs, but when I stopped gigging, it didn't get much studio use. While you are right, it had some great cleans, it was a monster of an amp...loud and a back-breaker.
I sold it a couple of years ago for a nice $$$ to a guy in Florida. At the time I was buying smaller/combo crunch amps. The Mark III could get you there crunch-wise too, it was just too loud, too much amp...so I decided it was time to let it go.
 
I have a Rivera M60 from the early 1990s that really has a sweet clean sound and it seems from reading online the Riveras are in general praised for their cleans but the number of knobs, switches and levers makes me feel like I'm flying a 747 and they really ought to sell the thing with an accompanying forklift.
 
The house amp at the Grand Ole Opry is a Matchless.

Nuff said.

;)
lou
 
my mesa boogie mark2b has some of the best clean sounds i've ever heard.

one of the reasons i've held onto it thru all these years.....
 
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