Fender Blues deluxe for clean opinions

Really trying to find a Fender tube amp with a nice clean tone and lots of headroom. I have Superchamp XD which is excellent but a little light for gigging. I recently bought a Blues Junior, hated it. I don't really like the EL34 glassy sound and the thing would start to break up at volume 4. Most amps made these days seem to be made to break up at low volumes.

I had a Deluxe about 10 years ago, forget now if it was a Blues or Hotrod but I didn't like it. Again I am after a nice basic rich Fender clean tone (Think Deluxe / Twin / Super Reverb). Nice warm bottom end and lots of headroom to 8 or 9 if possible. If I want dirty I will use the gain channel or pedals.

It sounds like the Blues deluxe is the pick of the two for cleans? Are they noisey when not playing ie hum, buzz? I believe the early ones were

Am I barking up the wrong tree with these amps? Like I said I hated the 3 or 4 BJ I have owned and these I assume are the big brothers.

 

Yes now I remember the one I had, and others I played just had a darker tone than Fender SF era amps I had. I put it down to the Chinese / Soviet tubes. Was an ok tone, more like a Brit amp to me. For some reason I am sure the one I had EL84's, like the BJ but I could be wrong. Thanks for the advice guys....

Anyway the whole question is moot now as I just purchased a 65 Super Reverb reissue for ridiculous money, not much more that a Hotrod. I had 2 Super Reverbs in Australia, SF and BF and hands down the best amp I have ever heard. Overdriven with pedals it was like a mini Marshall. Cleans pristine. Funny thing was, out of the two the SF was head and shoulders the best. beaten to hell. After owning it about three years I took the front grill off and noticed most of the speakers had holes about 1/4" to 1/2". Really bad the cones were only holding together by a thread. It still sounded killer. I gave my two young boys hell for a week thinking they had jabbed something into the speaker cones only to find out later apparently the damage was done by cockroaches! Apparently they love eating speaker cones lol. Still amazes me how good that amp sounded even with the honeycomb speaker cones.

I live in remote Thailand now and gear here available but a little scarcer to come by. The guy who is selling this is driving 5 hours to deliver it to me, at a ridiculous price....and he didn't even want a deposit...so I get to try it out and no buying sight unseen. Test first, no good no buy. It was one of those things just too good a deal to refuse. I am a hopeless GAS person.

I have a Superchamp XD, which is also one of the best amps I have ever had. Its great for me as I only use reverb, delay and chorus so no need for pedals. It is light and surprisingly loud. I am 57 years old, it would be very unlikely I will ever need anything bigger that the Superchamp. Very unlikely I will ever be in a band or duo again. Maybe some small room solo stuff at best. And now I am pondering why I would buy such a big heavy amp, and will need to buy pedals of course. My Superchamp was my holy grail amp. Sounds awesome, light, reliable. On board effects. Why do we do these crazy things lol. Will be nice to hear that big lush wall of sound the Super puts out again though

 

I did buy a Super Reverb lol. Read previous post. Like I mentioned I live in Thailand and specific second hand gear here not always readily available, particularly high end stuff due purely to economic reasons. When it does come up usually expensive and far away from me so even getting past the many online scammers you are buying site unseen. new prices on these amps just more than I am prepared to pay.