An amp head with a great clean channel?

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Purge said:
I live in Denver, CO. What kind of price are we looking at for the amp?

Here's the link for the head if anybody's interested:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=3757730200&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

That's looking like the way I should go. 4 speaker outputs...with powers like these, I could become a superhero...
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The ablility to seperate your speakers would mke that the ideal way to go. Stereo chorus is a beautiful thing.

I am not sure about the 4 outs just yet. That might just be an 8ohm on the left and right and a 16ohm on the left and right. But if you can actually hook up 4 cabs at once then you are more than golden with it.

The distorion channel gives the old Crate amps a run for their money for the "worse sound of all time" award...but you are getting this for the clean, as most people do.
 
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Yeah to the Rolands...they are so pristine yet they have an input impedance that feels like you're still doing something other than whacking it against a wall...many many of these reside in large recording studios...theres a reason for that.For pure wallet grinding power, the Ampeg V4/V2 heads are crazy...the V2 has a bit more grunge to it but i dont think theres a room large enough in the world to get the V4 loud enough to distort without death involved...the wallet grind would be a reference to the cost of retubing one of those bastards.The VT22 is the 'combo' version and requires a pair of shooters headphones to be around it....its a law in some states.For extreme clarity an older Twin or a Showman amp would be just fine.If you can find an early 70's Super Showman head your problem could be solved.The LOUDIST amp I ever heard on a stage (actually two of em) was Teds SuperTwins and Elvin Bishops old Blackfaced Twin...Stock... we turned the mics off of it after the first song...It filled a 3000 seat venue by itself.
 
Gotta agree with the Roland JC-120 and the Twin Reverb.

The JC-120 is really LOUD and always squeeeeeekkkkyy clean. If you try to get it to overdrive you can't.

My preference would be the Twin - the tubes give the high end a glassy shimmer that the transistors jsut can't match.
 
Another option is something like the Tubeworks Mosvalve (think that's what it is called), which is a power amp using MOSFET technology. From my experience it was a very clean amp with more headroom than a typical solid state power amp, but without adding as much 'grind' I guess as a tube amp, but still sounding quite warm. Or you could try a Laney VH100R, as I know Opeth use these amps but use the GT6's for all their sounds, and their live guitar sound is quite good. I own a VH100R and it is one of the most versatile tube amps for the money, if you bought one then used it's distortion channel, you'd be throwing that GT6 out of the window.
 
The Fender "Twin" and "Twin Reverb" tube amps are both clean and loud amps, plus compact... you can use standard road cases.
 
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