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I remember this from a few years ago when I tried running pedals into the clean channel...it just sounds gash.
Going back to dirt pedals through a clean amp yields a lot of the harshness the OP mentioned. It's particularly obvious with fuzz pedals IME
Just sharing.
The appeal for me with the clean channel on the TH30 was that it was a complete surprise. When you buy an amp for distortion, the clean channel is often disappointing but I found the TH30 to be like owning two different amps rather than one amp with two channels. The cleans were superb and that meant it gave me a very clean palette for pedals but I suppose you need to actually like what the pedals do and they need to have their own character. While I found the clean channel to be excellent from the start, the drive channel gave me all kinds of problems initially as unless the gain was kept very low, it turned into a bees' nest. After a lot of research I ended up fitting a TAD RT010 into the V1 position and TAD RT001 valves in the other preamp positions. This absolutely transformed the amp and the drive channel became vastly superior so I ended up using the Hardwire pedals less. I ended up selling the Metal Distortion, though I did continue using the Tube Overdrive with the drive channel. One thing I did also use that I found of benefit with the TH30 was EQ pedals. I ended up buying a couple of Boss GE-7 pedals and used them to both sculpture the tone and add a volume boost for solos. I was just about to buy a third GE-7 to use in the chain when my circumstances changed and I needed to invest in an amp option that was much smaller and lighter but that TH30 ended up a really great amp for me and I was sorry to see it go.
My advice would be that if you use the clean channel with drive pedals, buy a decent EQ pedal to go with them. In fact, based on my experience I'd buy at least two of them. Again, you can pick up used GE-7 pedals for next to nothing and they're a great addition.
I've never actually tried a hardwire pedal. I kept looking at them but they were always really expensive. I did used to have a bad monkey and liked it a lot. Although I don't think I've had one since I've had the TH30.
I do tend to live on the dirty channel on the TH30. I need to have at least a mild overdrive on the clean channel all the time...it's just so clean!!