Re: Advantages of a one-channel amp?
If that trick is an amazing trick, it's worth the money. That's the first reason; an amp that does one thing, whether that's gain or clean, and does it in a very desirable way that is not easily copied, is an amp people are going to pay for to get that sound.
Second, a lot of one-channel amps are popular because their clean tone makes them excellent pedal platforms, so their "one trick" makes them as sonically flexible as you want them to be just by laying out a few boxes in between the guitar and amp. Got gain for days, like a Hot Rod (which may as well be a one-channel amp)? Get a dirt pedal to go in front, and voila, there's your two-channel voicing. Got an amp that will go from clean into dirt in one channel, like a Princeton? You have even more options, like clean and treble boosts, to push the clean amp into breakup at the press of a footswitch.
Now, there's one-trick ponies, then there's paying $2500 for that trick. I like Josh Scott and JHS, and his collab with Milkman on the "Loud Is More Good" amp is a good idea; a single-channel amp designed from the ground up to be the best pedal-platform amp money can buy. However, if that's what you're going for, you're up against serious value-for-dollar competition (not to mention name recognition) in Fender's 1x12 combo lineup, from the Blues Deluxe and Hot Rod Deluxe to the newer Bluesbreakers, all of which are amazing pedal platforms for under a grand. A boutique hand-wired single-channel clean-to-dirty Princetonish amp might do well against these at a slight premium, maybe $1200-$1500. At $2600, which is the Sweetwater price for these, I say "no thanks, where's my Blues Deluxe?"
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Second, a lot of one-channel amps are popular because their clean tone makes them excellent pedal platforms, so their "one trick" makes them as sonically flexible as you want them to be just by laying out a few boxes in between the guitar and amp. Got gain for days, like a Hot Rod (which may as well be a one-channel amp)? Get a dirt pedal to go in front, and voila, there's your two-channel voicing. Got an amp that will go from clean into dirt in one channel, like a Princeton? You have even more options, like clean and treble boosts, to push the clean amp into breakup at the press of a footswitch.
Now, there's one-trick ponies, then there's paying $2500 for that trick. I like Josh Scott and JHS, and his collab with Milkman on the "Loud Is More Good" amp is a good idea; a single-channel amp designed from the ground up to be the best pedal-platform amp money can buy. However, if that's what you're going for, you're up against serious value-for-dollar competition (not to mention name recognition) in Fender's 1x12 combo lineup, from the Blues Deluxe and Hot Rod Deluxe to the newer Bluesbreakers, all of which are amazing pedal platforms for under a grand. A boutique hand-wired single-channel clean-to-dirty Princetonish amp might do well against these at a slight premium, maybe $1200-$1500. At $2600, which is the Sweetwater price for these, I say "no thanks, where's my Blues Deluxe?"
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