| Tele with fralins can make a nice clean. and the obvious fender 12ax7 / 6L6 sound. I agree with you and like the tele clean better than the strat clean. P90 ain't bad but less sugar sweet.
If you need volume, the obvious choice is a vintage blackface twin reverb. Plenty of vintage units out there which are the real deal P2P handwired. Or a silver face w tag board replacing tubes, caps speakers and blackface tune up job. Of course, heavy backbreaker of a 2x12.
If you don't like vintage some of the twin reverb clones include Vintage Sound Amps,
Steve Allen amps, etc. The fender reissues aren't that great to me.
Actually, the cleans i do like with a Les Paul are with a Twin Reverb. And if you have a pedal you love it is so versatile. I keep coming back to these.
If you don't need the verb a Dual Showman.
Deluxe reverb is nice esp if you want the dirty breakup at higher gain. On the cleans it has that ever so sweet but smooth hint of distortion. Carr rambler?
The dumble clones are fantastic too, like somebody said with the two rock. Don't overlook the speakers though, so all in this is an expensive clean - especially since cleans are easier to get than anything else.
Gosh there are so many good cleans it would help if you have some songs / concepts as a starting point.
Don't overlook the speakers - alnico's (cel. blue or gold) if you're trying out different heads.
btw personally, i'm not really a fan of the jc120. its a little too much weather channel for me. it does have a nice clean, just lacking a little soul. |