[johnwayne]

Originally Posted by peeder

I prefer cleans over anything else personally. I don't have an amp that can't do a good clean. Most good amps do a good clean. Rarely any chance of a good flavor if they can't do a solid vanilla.

My upgraded DRRI might be my favorite at the moment, though the hand-wired Marshall is very good clean too. Fat trebles on the Marshall.

To get a clean, everything has to be right with the amp, cab, and speaker. Tubes, etc. have to be very good. The speaker and cab are critical. Ironically, debugging a crunch tone may improve a clean...because exactly, the clean has to be great for the distortions to work well.

A lot of people have never heard what a guitar and amp can do (in person at least) because relatively few people know what to do to coax the best tone, even if it's just a few knobs total. They don't even seem aware of the tone knob on the guitar for instance. And many just don't have any taste, and their heroes don't have any taste either.

So True