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If you're near cambridge you're welcome to pop round and try it out.
there are many variants but if an amp ticks these 3, then i will give it a try...otherwise its not worth it, for me anyway. I dont really mind playing an amp at a low volume setting...that's what the volume knob is there for...unless you want to get the amp to break up into overdrive. I use pedals for that.
What i've found is that when you get an amp with bigger tubes, you also get bigger transformers and everything else required for running bigger tubes, all these together in most cases, mean you get a much fuller and richer tone. It also usually means it handles pedals a lot better too. Add to that a 12 inch speaker which will have, again in most cases, a bigger sound and you have a great clean platform. Finally simplicity...if your looking for a clean amp, either for clean or pedal platform, the simpler the amp, the more likely the clean tone is better. Most multi-channel amps will have 1 channel that's really good (or claim to be really good) and the others will be sufficient, but not great...and its usually the clean channel that suffers.
i also noticed you mentioned that the 2 amps your liked in the past where the fender and peavey...note, pretty sure those are 1x12 combos with 6L6's and EL34's...maybe like me, you need to look at bigger amps, and just use a low volume setting??
looking back, i would have been happy with the regular HRD as well...but the other 2 just sounded small and tiny, there was nothing about the tone that i liked. I played that HRDx at home with volume on about 2 and it just sounded great...and there wasn't a dirt pedal that it didn't like.
That said the V30 is not the most open and sparkly speaker, if it's that sort of clean you're after - and the Terrors are not especially clear-sounding amps either.
So… if it's the standard HB cab I would look for a better cab first. If it's the Vintage I would think about changing the speaker - probably to a G12H-30 or a G12H-75 Creamback, these sound excellent with Orange amps in my experience.
If that doesn't give you what you want, then a better amp. If you like the Orange sound then a Rocker 30 would be my first choice - it's beefier and clearer-soundng than the other (EL84) 30-watt Oranges. The guitarist in my band uses one through a 2x12" with Creambacks (G12H-75 and G12M-65) - it sounds fantastic, and is more than loud enough to keep up with a fairly loud drummer and my 500W bass amp.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Ac15 amps are very middly, with sparkly up top. Bit like a blues junior but much nicer. They get dirty very, very quickly though - clean at home volumes only.
Ac30 - that's where it's at!
Maybe try an ac30 if you liked the cleans on the ac15 - they have a deeper, more rounded voice than an ac15 but still have "that" vox tone.
Other options for a more affordable, good sounding clean amp that's valve powered is the Laney lh50 (cheap as chips, excellent clean tones) or an orange rocker 30 (old one - not sure what they new ones sound like but probably similar enough).
If you don't mind solid state, you won't go far wrong with a peavey bandit for good, solid clean sounds at gig volume that plays well with pedals...
I turn all the pots up to half and it's loud enough for rehearsals with a drummer. Live, it always gets mic'd up. I've got the 2x10 version which is smaller than the 1x12 and is easily carryable with one arm; for larger gigs I bring a 16ohm 1x12 extension cab which gives a bit fuller sound. At halfway, there's just a bit of hair on the clean sound using Filtertrons, and I use a few drive pedals very successfully, which I think push it into a bit more natural overdrive. So in addition to the pedal sound you get a bit of natural tube overdrive mixed in. I just treat it as a one-channel amp and ignore the drive channel.
I've tried a few different amps in the last few years and I'm glad I've stuck with this. It consistently gathers praise from sound engineers, whether live or in the studio, and they're being genuine rather than just saying the same thing to everyone, so I think that counts for something.
https://www.wembleymusiccentre.com/guitars/amps/guitar-amps/brand/quilter.html
i had been looking at an AC15s too
loudest lightest 35 watts you'll get
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