Okay, I'm fed up with the inconsistancies of my spider II, and want some tube goodness in my diet. My problem is i dont know what i want, because having a modelling amp has given me a range of sounds. I pretty much have 3 preferred sounds, sparkly clean, low to medium gain (fall of troy, poison the well, norma jean... basically hardcore), and tight high gain with crackle... (cannibal corpse, immortal, inflames, between the buried and me, as i lay dying... the stuff that requires more sustain in the distortion)
note: my medium and high gain settings will have the same EQ, just different gain settings. I have my own sound which is reminiscent of norma jean, poison the well, btbam, and inflames... just thought i'd mention that incase it would help.

so i've researched some amps which look like they will fit the purpose, all noteably footswitchable, and most with FX loops. FX loop is only really essential for me to insert a noisegate incase the amp distortion is noisy... thing is that i want a fairly versatile amp, but can push out clean tones and distorted tones and still maintain some tightness. After reading what i've wrote, i'm questioning the orange's and the marshalls... but i'm going to leave them in the question just for consideration and advice. Boost pedals are indefinately in the equation for tone. The pricetag does not concern me too much, though the less money i have to spend means more happiness for me later.

Crate Blue Voodoo 150
Marshall JCM 900
Marshall DSL 100
Marshall TSL 100
Orange Rockverb 50
Orange AD30 <-- noisegate will be placed after boost (outside of fx loop)
Engl Fireball
Engl Powerball
Peavey 5150/6505
Laney VH100R
Mesa Boogie Single Rec
Mesa Boogie Triple Rec

your advice is appreciated.

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You want a Peavey XXX

All tube Three Channel amp with Footswitchable effects loop.

Its clean is fantastic and the Two distortion channels are excellently voiced. Good price too.

I play a JSX (Basically the same amp but with different distortion voicings) and its amazing.

Also. The JSX is a little more expensive but you also get a built in noise gate and prescence/resonance controls. I have inspected both amps and the JSX build quality is slightly better too

You probably want a 5150 or JSX. I think I like the JSX more though. Try the 5150 out.

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5150,they are popular for metalcore crap,and can nail a shitload of death metal tones.But get out there and try those cunts out,they are all different.

test em dont ask metaltabs. buying a amp without having played it is like throwing money out of a window. and yes even if the next guitar store is 500 miles away go for it. its always worth it.

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thanks man, but i'm doing this so i can get an idea of what to test, which gives me an idea of which direction i have to drive to get there.

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i'd test em all. its a little work but in the end you will regret it if u skipped one trust me

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