Tube combo with fx loop

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Hi all. I've been playing through a Line 6 rack unit for a little while now, and would really love to get into a tube amp.
I do not have much money to spend at all, so I've been looking at the Fender Blues Junior. A new aquaintance of mine plays a digitech rp6 into a blues junior and it sounds awesome. But if theres no fx loop then he must be running the effects ahead of the amp........ and while that is great for overdrive/distortion, doesn't that seriously muck with time based effects like delay and other fx like a phaser?
Anyone have any ideas, or know of an amp in the same price range that could give me that fendery clean/mildly overdriven sound w/an fx loop? I wanna stay small so I can crank at least a little bit. I don't wanna have to go bigger and more expensive just to get an fx loop.
 
IT changes the sound (running fx in front instead of in the loop), but it doesn't "muck it up". I use the Fender HR Deluxe, which is essentially the Blues Jr with more power and a fx loop. I don't always use the fx loop, sometimes I put them all in front.


And to my knowledge, you aren't going to get a tube combo AND fx loop in the price range of a Blues Jr.... fx loops are one of those features you pay for.
 
You could probably get a used Peavey Classic 30 in the price range of a new Blues Jr. 2 channel, 1x12 30 watt tube amp (tonally somewhere between a marshall and a vox, but as price reflects, not quite as nice as either) with spring reverb and an effects loop. Definitely not a bad little amp for what you pay for it.
 
I'd have to hear the peavey classic, never played through anything by peavey that wasn't solid state. Looking for something with that *slightly dirty* clean tone like a Deluxe Reverb, and not so pristine clean like a twin. Does that make sense?
I'm thinking I might try looking for a hot rod deluxe, though I'm bummed I'll have to fork out more money just for an fx loop. This is strictly a recording/bedroom amp so I don't want tons of headroom.
 
Definitely try and find somewhere that you can play one of the Peavey Classic 30's. The Classics are unlike the rest of Peavey's stuff. It is most certainly a tube amp, with 3 12ax7's in the preamp and 4 EL84's in the power amp. It share a lot of circuitry with classic Marshall amps, but does still have a very nice, almost chimey clean channel.
 
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