Best Amp You've Ever Played Through-Clean

[jumpnblues]

My new Louis Electric KR-10/12. Clean or overdriven...just unbelievable. Yep, the cleans have such depth and harmonics. Very, very, sweet. Lots of headroom to dial in. Best kept secret in an amp since the Dr.Zs first came out.

Tom

[singlecoil]

best clean sound i've ever played thru was SF twin reverb, second place goes to a dual showman w/two 15 'jbls. the best I've ever heard but not played thru was a Carr Rambler. Hands down the best clean tone i've ever heard, period.

[MagicTwanger]

Best clean> 65 Twin Reverb Custom 15. period.

[moparmutt]

I like my Allen Sweet Spot cleans.
Played through a showman reverb that was pretty amazing ....and LOUD

[ToneFan]

I'll vote for the '68-'69 Princeton Reverb I have in my avatar... The first year Silverface amps had the Blackface circuits unchanged... Turned up to 3 or 4 it's got that classic Fender chimey clean sound... A little reverb, and little vibrato... Great recording amp... I put a Shure SM57 right up against the speaker cloth, and it has THAT sound...

Cheers,
JM

[eggman]

Howdy,

For me it'd have to be my 1991 Fender Super 112 (60 all-tube watts). This baby does the "clean thing" better than my Red knob The Twin! BTW, the Super 112 is also a red knob.
The Super 112 is great for the tone one hears on "Beast of Burden". Don't know what amp Keef used for that one, but the sustain is similar. I could never understand all the bad press the Super 60/112/210 have recieved. My red knob amps sound great clean. YMMV.

Eggman

[Bill]

'66 Deluxe Reverb and a '77 Pro Reverb. Clean without being one-dimensional.

A good test is running a 12-string Ric through it. Especially good on the Pro Reverb.

[captain gorgeous]

AC30
my SF Pro
and a JTM45 reissue head i used on a session once

[Trimmed&Burnin]

At low volume, my Slowburn 2x10,,,at higher volumes my 59'er 2x10 w/2x12's Webers of course.

[refin]

Originally Posted by jh45gun

For Tube the 1970 vintage Super Reverb I used to own and sure wish I did again. For SS My Traynor Mono Block Bass Head has tons of clean and power.

Man,the Mono Block............haven't heard that one in awhile!
In '74 I went on the road with a good friend of mine who played bass,and he had a Mono Block and a Cerwin Vega cab with 1-18" and 2-10" (I think).What a TONE.

[WrapAround]

AC30/4 and BF Super Reverb with 4xJBL 110s.

[Mr. Z]

My old '60 tweed Bassman. Wish I never sold it...

[professor]

Carlson Turbo Pup.

[ramseybella]

Originally Posted by Chris Callahan

Homebrew 5F6 or SF Twin. This is my Bassman through an Ampeg V9 cab.

Does that say Hobart as in Mixer on the head?

[ramseybella]

By far was a Mesa Boogie MK2-C head w/built in EQ I sold it like a Stupid A$$!!
The Clean side on them is Stunning Sweet!!

Photo is a B-MKII it looks the same as C-MKII.

[9a13]

I don't remember what the model name of it was, but I can describe it. This would have been in the mid-80s. A guy had brought the amp into church for a few weeks and I was playing guitar in the band at the time. It was a Fender, not new, had a silver faceplate and I think blue words on it. It was a tube amp, if I remember correctly, and had 2x12s with a silver diaphragm on each. It was hands-down the cleanest, clearest nicest-sounding clean amp I have ever played. Not being an amp nut at the time, I didn't pay enough attention to the model name, but it obviously made a powerful impression on me. Anybody have any ideas what it could have been?

[Rusty]

woops...

[Rusty]

woops again...

[Rusty]

i can get a similar tone at the house with my '66 Princeton Reverb (at a house-friendly volume obviously - LOL!), but there IS just something special about blackface amps IMHO.

the transformers, Jensen ceramic speakers, just an incredible combination...not as bright/scooped as SF amps to me, just fat, rich clean tone. NOTHING beats that Twin on a gig

[JohnS]

"78 Vibrosonic Reverb with stock JBL. MMMMMMMMMMMM!

[david henman]

...my new (used) traynor ycv15blue, a fifteen-watt, el84 combo:

http://www.traynoramps.com/products....&cat=62&id=359

the most fun i've ever had plugging in.

-dh

[Stuco]

My new (to me) SF Princeton Reverb. This is the best amp I've ever played through.

[Teleglide]

Originally Posted by dibber124

1965 Fender Deluxe Reverb with Altec-Lansing speaker. Best amp I ever had. Sold it because I was a jerk.

I have a 64 DR with an Altec 417 8C in it. My favorite amp of all time. Over the years I've sold a lot of gear that I shouldn't have, but I'll be keeping this one!

Favorite loud clean amps - SF Twin with JBL's, Lab Series L5 w/ Weber Michigans. Not so loud: Polytone MiniBrute, and, of course, my trusty 64 DR (vol on about 2). I also have a 5E3 clone that has great cleans with the vol on about 1.5. Pretty quiet, but clean and smooth.

[e-merlin]

Are you ready for this? Seriously? I've played hundreds of guitars and amps and I don't think you can beat...



A Peavey Triple X through a Peavey Classic 412ES cab, or even a 5150 cab. Plug in a Tele, turn the channel volume all the way up, and turn the master up as much as you can stand. Pure Tele tone. Clean. Mr. Clean clean. Squeaky clean. Plus, you've got two other channels with enough gain to peel paint if you so desire, but they are just a bonus.

I can get a really good Clean out of my 5150 Combo, too. The only thing it lacks is that I haven't found the right speakers for it yet. I'm going to try some Peavey Sheffield 1230s next.

[marc sosnoff]

for me its my germino lead 55 with 2x12 closed back cab
low or high volume it does clean so nice

[nvosmeier]

Fender Super Sonic