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Yes.
If JCM800 50 or 100 watt, try the low input. Especially one with 6550 power tubes.
JMPs and JTMs/4holers you have numerous options. Jumper the channels and prepare for dem toanz.

Not much of a fan of the 900 and after.

Oh yeah, that JCM800 had 6550s in it as well. I was always telling him to put EL34s in it but the tracks are of it still loaded with 6550s. I wouldn't change anything.

waltdogg wrote:An 800 with single coils dialed in just right is sooooo sweet. I tracked the guitars, bass and vocals for my friend's EP, his Ric and 800 made for the best sounding chiming guitars on the rhythm tracks.

i wanna hear dat

I second the Laney AOR.... I use my AOR50 for mainly cleans/edge of breakup stuff, low input is great cranked or low pre-amp gain in high input, and these amps are seriously cheap, especially the combos since they look so heinous but you can just rehouse them into a head or new combo + they have a decent on board reverb.

Tristan wrote:Dude, old Marshall Plexi's are amazing clean.
I have a 2061X, it's got a surprising amount of headroom for only a 20 watt amp.
A bonus is that a great Marshall just takes dirt pedals really well and always makes it rock.

I have one as well. I agree 100%.

echodeluxe wrote:

waltdogg wrote:An 800 with single coils dialed in just right is sooooo sweet. I tracked the guitars, bass and vocals for my friend's EP, his Ric and 800 made for the best sounding chiming guitars on the rhythm tracks.

i wanna hear dat

EDIT: Found it!

does sound really good. kinda chunky though. not totally clean

I think the pre-amp gain was set right on the edge of breakup. And the bass knob was turned up pretty high.

im looking for dat sparkly but big clean sound. no breakup.

Same setup with less pre-amp gain would do that. Don't overthink it.

echodeluxe wrote:ii just associate 6L6's with big fat cleans from like, fender amps. i always associated EL34's with brash mids heavy british distortion so, yeah. i dunno. obviously im a dumb dumb.

Me too, but on reflection I'd be willing to bet my pants that it is more to do with the typical fender/Marshall preamps and the typical fender/Marshall tonestacks than the actual tubes. Disregarding differences in output I don't know if there's that much difference in the actual sound of the tubes.

I know that it ain't the tubes per se. tubes don't have a "sound".

my band recently added a third guitarist and he plays a JCM800 clean and its actually really nice. he needs to temper his treble a bit but other than that it sounds really cool. great contrast with my super reverb and my bandmates music man 65 combo.