Recommend Tweed pedal for clean platform....

If you can find one the Wampler 57 Tweed will fit the bill.

 

Lovepedal does the tweed thing as well as anyone, better than most. Les Lius, for instance. Or HPTT.

 

Buy a champ clone for around half. There is nothing special about that reissue that justifies that ridiculous price.

 

True North Tweed Drive.

 

Wampler Tweed 57 is the best I’ve used. Les Lius is great as well

 

Pedals: Wampler 57, Fender FBM1, Joyo American Sound, Catalinbread Formula 57...might all get you close.

Amps: A VHT special 6 or a Bugera V5 might get you close, I believe both are based on champ circuits. Maybe a Pro Junior is worth checking out?

 

https://rockettpedals.com/product/monkeyman-2/

I use it in front of my tweed Princeton when I cannot push it to its sweet spot: it's really convincing and you get the spring reverb emulation if needed.

 

Joyo American Sound will do the tweed. Also LMP has a Harmonic Boost that nails it.

 

Way Huge Red Llama. The red MkII version, not the silver reissue.

 

Fender '59 Bassman?

 

Right at the bottom of the price bracket is the Joyo American Sound. Do not dismiss it lightly. I can run my Champ-a-like clean, then engage the AS and have it sound spookily close to the Champ-a-like when it's screaming. It takes a little tweaking to get there, but when it does...

Tech 21 make the original Joyo 'honoured' Other character pedals are available.

Hotone Nano Legacy Mojo Diamond. 5 Watts(ish) of solid state goodness. You'll need a cab. Dinky, fine sounding boxes of rock. The Nano heads sound quite close to the amps they are emulating, but can do it at conversation levels of volume. Neat.

Joyo JTA-05 Sweet baby amp. A Champ clone. You -may- want to add in the missing bypass capacitor for a little more crunch.

Build a Champ. Everyone needs a Champ-a-like, whether they know it yet or not.

 

I would NOT recommend the Lovepedal one knob Champ pedal. It's my most useless pedal. The Joyo Sweet Baby is cheaper and more controllable.

Does it sound like a Tweed amp? Beats me, don't have one and I don't trust my memory.

 

The reissue has some tweaks to the circuit that make it much higher gain than the MkII, and it's also more compressed. I emailed Dunlop about that last year and they confirmed it.

But hey, the silver one may work for you, so if the price is right give it a whirl.

The MkII can still be had for under $100 on eBay and Reverb.

 

Catalinbread Formula No.5. Out of production, but works great into my Fender 6L6 Champ 12.

 

The Catalinbread Formula No. 5 (original, out of production) or Formula 55 (the current version) will get you there.