Blackface cleans and Jcm drive.

DanR

In one amp, any reccomendations on who I should look at?

Been looking at the Redplate Magica but that's not easy to find over here.

Budget is around £1000.

Cheers

Danny

ICBM

Rivera

hywelg

Blackface clean + Decent pedal. = JCM800 with a huge bottom end.

Specifically a Dr Z EZG.....

Needs a Big cab......

octatonic

ICBM said:

Rivera

This.

Or a 65 Amps Soho and a Marshall style pedal.
Or Suhr/CAA.

DanR

I've been looking into a few of the Carr amps with the possibility of keeping a few pedals, but id rather get the dirt from my amp.

JohnPerry

Sell the pedals and buy a Carr Slant then. Wonderful blackface clean channel and Marshallesque dirt channel. 

jaytmon

Bogner Shiva - as long as you don't want a light amp... EL34 model isn't quite blackface in the clean but it is very, very impressive. Drive channel rocks, plus footswitchable boost and the master volume manages to make it sound great even at low volumes. Don't know what the 6L6 version is like though. 

Edit: would have to be 2nd hand to fit in your budget

Dominic

Probably a Carr Slant but not at £1000 unfortunately 

DanR

I was under the impression the Carr Slant has a relatively meh drive side.

jaytmon

How about an MJW custom build? No idea of prices mind. 

DanR

jaytmon said:

How about an MJW custom build? No idea of prices mind. 

He doesn't build any more.

jaytmon

DanR said:

jaytmon said:

How about an MJW custom build? No idea of prices mind. 

He doesn't build any more.

Ah that's a shame, didn't realise that. 

ftumch

I have a rivera rake head and matching cab for sale if you decide to go that way.

DanR

@ftumch can you pm some details and pics.

Thanks.

Funkfingers

MESA/Boogie mk3 Simul-Class.

ICBM

Funkfingers said:

MESA/Boogie mk3 Simul-Class.

Not even close. I very briefly owned one…

Blackface clean - sort of, although it's always tighter and darker and doesn't have the deep 'bounce' or sparkle of a Fender.

Marshall crunch - not even remotely close. It can't do anything like a Marshall tone because the tone stack is in the wrong place - pre-distortion - and although the graphic EQ is post-distortion is still doesn't sound anything like a Marshall. (And really you want to GEQ to make the lead channel sound great, not to try to fix the problem with R2.)

Boogie lead - outstanding. If you want it for that and the clean sound it's a great amp. But I really wanted a Marshall crunch so it swiftly went back!

The Mesa that's closest to a Marshall is the Stiletto, I think - although I got my Trem-o-verb to sound very like one too, with a passable Fender clean sound. These later Mesas (not Boogies) have a post-distortion tone stack.

Barney

An omega modded hot rod deluxe  does what your asking .. i have one and wouldnt part with it ...iff you can find one definitely worth the money.....there was one for sale on here a while back 

FreddieVanHalen

My old CAA/Suhr OD100 was on sale on here recently, that will hit your spot

firepaulmusic

DanR said:

I was under the impression the Carr Slant has a relatively meh drive side.

It is...

firepaulmusic

Rambler with a Suhr Riot pedal...

thebreeze

Tone King Metropolitan? but might be hard to find one at that price.