Best clean amp for £300?

Lebarque

Asking for a friend. Any tips? Katana? I remember @ICBM saying something about Jet City amps?

Ideally:

• 1x12 combo
• Loud enough for rehearsals and pub gigs
• Good clean sound only needed (overdrive, reverb etc. will be handled by multi-effects unit)
• Main guitar used: strat
• Music played: Indie rock 

Thanks in advance.

John_A

If you are lucky a 2nd hand Hot Rod Deluxe

ICBM

Peavey Bandit or Special. Absolutely reliable, loud, big bold clean sound, and you could easily buy two for £300… they more normally sell for around £100.

I did briefly think of selling my Special in a clear-out recently, but I've come to my senses .

Second choice would probably be a Laney World Series, I think they did a 120W 1x12", but if not then whatever the model below that is.

Jetfire

Do you mean the Peavey special? They sis a 130 version??

ICBM

Jetfire said:

Do you mean the Peavey special? They sis a 130 version??

Yes. There are several models, from the early-80s 120W 1x12" I have, via a couple of different 130W 1x12"s, to more recent 2x12"s.

The 1x12"s are compact, heavy, astoundingly loud and built like a nuclear bunker. Probably the loudest clean 1x12" I know of apart from a MkI Boogie… although there is the very rare Rivera-series Fender Showman (solid-state) which is 200W with an EVM speaker, and might beat both of them.

Jetfire

I had a 1 x 12 before (and someone lost it) and it was amazingly heavy... but i do have access to one so may have to give it a whirl as its been 200 years since i played one last

Danny1969

A couple of weeks ago there was an almost new Hot Rod on Ebay for £400 ... so a friend contacted the buyer and offered him £360 cash which he accepted the deal was done. Amp looks brand new, tattier ones go for less there are good deals out there

rico

Laney LC30 or LC50. 

kennedydream1980

There is a Fender Hotrod Deluxe just turned up on one of the Facebook groups. It's a MK3 priced up at £300. Absolute bargain. It's on this Group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/guitarexchange/?fref=nf

Trude

I'd get him to at least try a Katana and see if he likes the sound of it. If so, all the bells and whistles that come with it are an added bonus.

I like that mine basically functions as a spare pedal board if ever my power supply dies at a gig. 

Musicman20

Katana 100 1x12

jonnyburgo

Peavey Renown, one for sale on gumtree near me (Manchester) for £90.I had one in the 90's, loud as balls.