Joe teaches an important lesson!

I'm a big Fender amp fan..... I tend to prefer clean hifi sounding amps and then use pedals for the overdrive/distortion. It's more versatile for me as a guy who does note for note covers and having to get the tones from a lot of different songs from the recording. Sure beats hauling 4 amps to a gig.

But for me I just prefer the sound of a high headroom 6L6 Blackface/Silverface Twin Reverb, Pro Reverb, or Super Reverb with 6 or so OD pedals to choose from for a live show. For home or recording, I do dig my old 5E3 cranked but generally I tend to prefer preamp distortion and a bright sizzly tone from pedals with clean amps. I was never into the whole LP + Marshall stack thing. And most of my favorite bands did that. I just can't get into it personally.

I could have posted that myself. I like Fender amps w/a lot of headroom, & a tube reverb circuit. About 40 to 60W is what I need. And I prefer 10s to 12s.

Everybody needs a high headroom 6L6 amp of their choice... For me, it's a Twin... I'm just sayin'... eace2