Best Amp You've Ever Played Through-Clean

[BroadMaster]

Originally Posted by MagicTwanger

Best clean> 65 Twin Reverb Custom 15. period.

I've not had my way with one of these yet. Tell me more,please.

[BroadMaster]

Originally Posted by Shnook

Well, obviously it's not the tweed Champ! My early '64 Princeton however is the sweetest clean tone I've ever had. Awesome amp!

Awwsome guitar, too! For not being a tele....

[teletard]

swart atomic space tone is amazing. it has a combination blackface/tweed thing going on. it is sick it is clean yet has incredible dirt in it. so sweet i sold an all original 65 princeton reverb

[MagicTwanger]

BroadMaster, I like to jumper Normal channel 2 to Bright channel 1, Tele into Normal channel 1. Vol 8, Vol 3. Tele volume on clean/crunchy edge (about 30%), spice with T,M,B/T,M/B plus 2.5 Reverb.
At home, I play in the NEXT ROOM with the door shut.

For really clean but very articulate I plug in archtop (1934 model L-50 with a Johnny Smith style mini humbucker) into Bright channel Vol 3 - 5.

The Twin Custom 15 is a very musical AB763 circuit with many uses.
MagicTwanger

[teleclarkster]

The best I've ever played through or heard was a Fender Dual Professional. Clean and juicey! Next to that would be to me a Twin Reverb.

I do love the clean sound of my Princeton Reverb though. If I could get that sound at a performance volume level I'd be set.

[Tadeo_Gómez]

I like The Deluxe and Super Reverb.

My 2 amps:





The '63 Vibroverb sound Very Good Clean.

Thanks

[Geoff738]

I really liked the clean tones in the Marshall 30th Anniversary combo (the purple tolex ones). The gainier tone? Not so much.

Haven't played one in many many years though.

Cheers,
Geoff

[sa paine]

A 66 Super reverb, I sold it a few years ago....... : (

I have a 66 Deluxe reverb that's pretty sweet though, I can be pretty clean with my Strats.

[ASAT-Sean]

My 64 Tremolux. Best clean sound I've ever heard.

[chabby]

My Bogner SHiva by a wide margin - just unbelievable shimmerin icciccle clean clarity and beauty. If a prettier clean exists I've yet to hear it old, or new.

[Tremo]

CLEAN? Hands-down, Twin Reverb with JBLs.

All that headroom.

[IceGator8]

I can't believe the Roland Jazz Chorus was only mentioned once. It is THE pristine clean amp.

On the tube front I'd have to go with a Matchless DC30 or a Fender VibroKing.

[Scott V]

My current favorite is the '68 Super Reverb I just recently bought, both Strats and Teles sound excellent thru it.

[65flh5326]

Headroom, chime and ect, that would be my Hiwatt 100 through a couple of EVM speakers.
One I just picked up is an old Acoustic 135, an odd 125watt SS amp that is very different then any SS amp I have tried. So far, very good, I need more hours on it though.

Thanks,
Don

[ac15]

Carr Mercury by far. You wouldn't think an 8 watt amp would be the best clean, but it's pretty great.

[stantheman]

My Dripguard Twin with the Altecs & the Sparkle Drive.
And the weight surprisingly ain't too bad.
I never play it without the Sparkledrive - I'm addicted.

[Offbeat]

Originally Posted by professor

Carlson Turbo Pup.

I've gotta second the Turbo Pup. Mine's loaded with a 12" EVM 12L. Smoothest controls of any amp I've every played through... I don't know what tricks Mark Norwine has up his sleeve, but it's almost impossible to find a bad sound at any volume.

Offbeat

[mad dog]

Of the BF/SF amps, a '67 BFSR with CTS alnicos had that spacey clean sound. Just as good in a different way, several BF and SF Pro Reverbs I've tried.

From the more tweed era, two winners for me. The Fender '57 Tweed Twin RI has a magic clean sound, a thicker clean than BF, round and beautiful. Another distinctive clean comes from my Twilighter (Magnatone) 260. This last one is different enough, hard to compare it to other things. It does have a bit of the Ampeg Gemini vibe ... those amps too make my list for best clean tone.

[studio1087]

Originally Posted by Tremo

CLEAN? Hands-down, Twin Reverb with JBLs.

All that headroom.

We have a winner! That set up will take the hair off your head!

Mine was solid state (the horror)......I owned a Roland JC120 in the 80's...it was good but not as good as the Carvin SX-200 That I had up to a few years ago. My Carvin was one with the tan tolex and 2-12 British speakers and digital effects. I could play bass guitar through that amp loudly. With a Tele it cut like a knife. Loud and clean and clear.

[garytelecastor]

Matchless DC 30. Sweet, responsive, alive. I loved it.

[gpower]

I've owned and/or played through an awful lot of different amps over many years. For clean, chimey, shimmering tone an early 70's SF Deluxe would be THE one. A close second was a monster 100WRMS AIMS 8x10.

[jefrs]

Clean? My Laney L5T does clean. All the way up. All 5 watts of it.
Attachment 10870
It's got a Clean knob.

[PMC70]

I like old Fenders, including my 68 super reverb. Twins and princetons, etc are really nice as well.

I've also got a reasonably rare 78 Traynor TS200 ss head that's way on the overkill-loud side(200w@4Ohms), but it's got a tri-mode compression stage on the board which makes it a pretty warm ss amp. Thing is; it has 1.5% t.h.d. @ full volume. Crystal clean headroom...pretty much unlimited.

On the subject of volume though, I turned it up to 8 on both volumes once and it actually hurt. Almost violent sounding. Never needs to go past 4. Really.

[Zhurh]

Cowtipper sounds clean to me, and alot more too. I've had a few fenders over the years, started out with vibrolux. Funny thing is my TRRI custom 15 sounds better thru Motion Sound rotary speaker, must be the 85 watts.

[eddiewagner]

my recently bought silverface pro reverb does the clean-thing in an excellent way.

[Joe Chaney]

i once went to this young guitarist gathering kinda fing, and the guy doing it had an original blackface twin reverb, it was like plugging a guitar lead into the god of tone