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The drive sound comes from over driving the power section, so an effects loop is a gargantuan waste of time on this amp, there is only one gain stage before the power section so there really is no point, I know this as I have fitted effects loops and the end users pretty much always don't bother with them.
What you can do though is use both channels and an A/B selector and set the volumes differently.
I built one 10 years ago and it is a cracking amp that most guitarist admire at gigs/practices.
I upgraded my speaker to to an Alnico gold which made a dramatic improvement in tone and volume.
Rob
If you're using the amp fairly overdriven for your rhythm sound you can't get a solo boost at all, in volume terms - boosting the input might even make it sound *quieter*, since it will make the amp more compressed. A treble boost or upper-mid boost can work though - by narrowing the frequency range you can make an amp cut through better, and it can even increase the perceived volume slightly.
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Not sure how similar the circuit is, but I gig with an MJW Bantam which is loud enough in a 2 guitar band. Obviously speaker choice is critical. Clean cleans are not really a feature at gig volumes. For increased headroom check out a 36 watter with double the EL84's and a similar sound.
If you're not fussed about Tremolo, I offer both a two-channel version (one channel has a JTM45 TMB tonestack) that you can ABY for different tones, and a single channel MV version with TMB+Presence and Reverb.
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
Incidentally, having had a look around at a few more amps the Freidman Dirty Shirley 40watt 1x12 looks to have the features I'm after, namely, single channel, FX loop, powerful enough for unmic'd gigs and a combo. I have never heard one in the flesh though. From some of the things I have read it claims to have a JTM 45 ball park sound and go from there??
I found the 18 watt I had cut through well but not if you play in a twin guitar band.
The issue I had with the 18 watt is that in a twin guitar band it didn't cut through the mix quite enough. It was loud enough but because it was compressing so much it got a little lost.