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Old 09-13-2017, 05:16 PM
roylor4 roylor4 is offline
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The best sounding small tube amp I have heard is the Blackstar HT-5r. Two channels. Beautiful clean and great crunch tones too.

I am in the process of selling my last tube amp to buy a Boss Katana 50. Yeah, they are that good.

I am continually blown away by the tones in my Fender Passport mini. You have to do some tweaking with the software, but the tones are great once you do. Does it have adequate volume, you may ask? I played an outdoor gig at a restaurant and as I was walking to my car (3/4ths of a block away) two stoners 4-5 houses from the restaurant said that was why they were sitting outside - so they could hear me. Yeah, that loud.

If you want great cleans the Blackstar and Katana will give them to you at low levels and at gigging levels too (although the Blackstar wouldn't hold up to a large, loud venue).

If you want good cleans and nice crunch both, you will need a pedal, a 2 (or more) channel amp, or just lean over and change amp models.

BTW, 25+ years with tube amps.
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