Pedal Friendly/Unfriendly amps

[dniederkorn]

I have a Kustom double Cross and it is all over the place in this regard. It hates my Sound Shank fuzz it glitched out and playing fast leads causes notes to disappear. It loves my dirt transmitter, muff,and ratt. It likes my Speaker cranker on low to moderate settings but gets a massive low end splat on settings over 2oclock.
i have an old 212 vertical traynor cab what 30wattish amp would you recommend. This is for rock oriented music. My 120watt kustom is kind of ridiculous for that and will probably be used for my metal band.

[Mudfuzz]

Hmm..
my guitarist likes Marshalls and those can be temperamental with a lot of fuzzes if you have the gain up.. actually that is the way it is with most.. my Orange TV200 is great with FX and fuzz as long as you don't turn the gain up to metal zones...

[hbombgraphics]

Peavey Classic 30 is pretty fuzz friendly
Currently my favorite amp to toss a bunch of pedals in front of is my Fender Princeton Chorus 2x10
I think my blues junior would get really spikey style highs with a ton of gain which is why it is gone

Any old peavey amps sound sweet
big fan of bandits and the VTX amps

[Grizzlyfnadams]

I find my AC30CCH head to be finicky when it comes to various drive pedals, seems to like fuzz though.

[wsas3]

yeah i have a classic 30 as well, and it takes everything fairly well

[Jeff-7]

My AC30HW2X is a pedal sloot, haven't found anything that doesn't play well with it yet.

[greyscales]

I've yet to have a problem with my Vox AC15cc1. Takes pedals like a pro.

[Hacken]

JCM900s fart out with any dirt pedal i ever tried on it.

[skullservant]

Peavey amps are solid platforms for pedals. This new Sunn Sceptre takes pedals like a champ as well!

[theavondon]

JCM900s fart out with any dirt pedal i ever tried on it.

Clean channel handles them pretty well, IMO...

Also, Acoustic Control Corp, for real.

[Lemyisgod]

AC30CC2 on the bright channel with any kind of overdrive will make it completely shrill. There is a bright cap in there that is the cause of the problem and needs to be removed to make it playable on that channel with pedals. The normal channel takes pedals really well as long as the bright switch is off (And since about half of the production run had the bright switch installed backwards it might sound shrill on the normal channel too because the controls are reversed.)

[dniederkorn]

Anybody know about the mod kit amp or any of the THD amps?

[insubordination]

It's been my experience that EL84 style amps don't take fuzz as well, then again several people here are saying their Vox amps do fine, so, could be my ears?

[Ancient Astronaught]

It's been my experience that EL84 style amps don't take fuzz as well, then again several people here are saying their Vox amps do fine, so, could be my ears?

They don't like dirt pedals with lots of low end in my experience. I have a verellen jet city, which is a 20watt el84 amp, and it loves my Elements pedal, and likes my burial chamber for lead lines and solo's but hates it for chords and rythmn work because theres so much low end, the OCD side works pretty good on its own and the LSTR side on its own it can handle fairly well though. It's got alot more to do with how the amp is setup as a whole then just that its running el84 power tubes, but they do make a huge difference. My amp doesnt like anything that slams the preamp really hard, which makes me think its more in the preamp design then the power amp.

[bigchiefbc]

My Bugera 1960 (Marshall 1959 super lead clone) does great with my pedals, including fuzz and dirt. For modulation and delay, I like them better in the fx loop.