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If you want a light breakup tone in a Fender with a fat, smooth type sound, I think the Fender Vibrolux does that pretty well.
 
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Gunny47 said:
+1 for the Fender '57 Tweed Twin-Amp. That thing is pretty damn loud, and pretty clean due to the dual rectifiers and higher wattage than a tweed bandmaster or bassman. Great stock speakers in that amp too, a little stiff at first, but give it about a week or two and it will start to do some smokin blues. Because tweed amps were made in the 50s, when electric guitar was made to amplifiy the sound of an acoustic guitar, they were meant for clean of course. But, without saying, they have some of the best (if not the best IMO) distortion tones that you can get. You can jump the two channels with a Y cable to get a real ballsy clean sound for blues.

I would also reccomend a Victoria 80212 amp, which is the high powered tweed twin. This will give you A LOT of headroom, but because it is a tweed, you might still be able to crank it a bit to get a pushed blues tone. I never played this amp and dont know how it rates in loudness compared to ure other amp, but im guessing that the Victoria is much louder. Just 2 suggestions...

A little clarification.......the low powered tweed Twin was made for clean sound........when used with standard low powered Fender pickups......upto about half volume.:fingersx: You plug in a Les Paul and even the lower output PAF type pickups will SCREAM!!!!! The Fralin Blues Special single coils will honkl pretty good too. And that is with 12AY7's. With the 12AX7's as it comes from the factory, it should get pretty nasty with any guitar.
 
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The '59 Bassman gets great fat cleans, some light, smoky blues sounds, and killer distortion! Loud too!
 
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screamingdaisy said:
Unfortunatly, neither do I. I know I want it as a mostly clean amp that'll OD, so I don't want too much headroom.....or too little.

It has to be able to balance volume-wise with an 85w MkIII. I'm thinking I could probably get away with a 50w non-MV amp.

A Super Reverb or a Pro Reverb should do the trick. They are very similar circuits.........Both 40W The Pro has 2 12" and the Super has 4 10". IMHO The Super has a much more solid bottom and once the volune gets up to about 5 it can be real clean if you roll the volume on the guitars back some and will give you a real nice breakup with the volume on full. Both of these amps also work real well with pedals.
 
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Yeah, I was gonna mention the super reverb but two people have already. I have a `1970 silverface super reverb (which is 40 watts, not the 30 previously mentioned) and is the EPITOMY of the warm Fender blues tones. You don't get more blues, than a Super Reverb :)
 
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CapoFirstFret said:
Yeah, I was gonna mention the super reverb but two people have already. I have a `1970 silverface super reverb (which is 40 watts, not the 30 previously mentioned) and is the EPITOMY of the warm Fender blues tones. You don't get more blues, than a Super Reverb :)
What made me think it was 30? It's definitely a loud 40.
 
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...the '57 twin amp is 40 watts

the '59 bassman is 45

so they're about the same as far as wattage goes

one amp that i forgot about (can't believe i did) is the vibro king

that thing stays clean for quite awhile but when they breakup they have a nice sound to them, a few blues players crank the **** outta them

they're expensive tho
 
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"...the '57 twin amp is 40 watts

the '59 bassman is 45"

My bad, I stand corrected. I kept thinking the Twin was 55 watts or something like that for some reason... I guess I was thinking the Twin had higher wattage than a tweed Bandmaster, which is 35 watts.
 
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sorry...when I think blues, I think reverb, and that's why I rule out the bassman..no on board spring reverb....

the blues is reverb man!
 
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CapoFirstFret said:
sorry...when I think blues, I think reverb, and that's why I rule out the bassman..no on board spring reverb....

the blues is reverb man!

which is why people use em with the '63 reverb unit from fender, which is undoubtably the best damn reverb unit ever made
 
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The Twin has a different PI than the Bassman, so they run around 35 watts stock. Mine has 7581A's and dual 5AR4's and just pushes 40-42 on a good day. Double plus good on any large/medium tweed amp for semi-clean or blooz grind---nothing like the real thing. I played with a guy with a FEI Super Reverb the last two days and it was a *&%*#!$ treble box...no thanks.
 
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