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Revv Generator 120. Sounds like what you want unless you find it overkill, but it does everything you described.
 
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Diego said:
Since you basically want two flavors of dirt, I'll make my usual weird suggestions and say you might get away with a Laney GH50L.

50W head, EL34, single channel with footswitchable gain level (so you can have dirty and then dirty as **** if you want) plus an FX loop.

Also an Egnater Tweaker 88 could be your thing.
88 watts of KT88 power, two channels of whatever the **** you want, with individual footswitchable gain or volume boosts per channel, FX loop, etc.
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EVH 5150 III 50w head/combo.
JSX/XXX/3120 head/combo.
JVM 205/210 head/combo.
 
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So are you buying a big tube amp or a floorboard and SS amp? :D

Or is this for shows and the board for home and rehearsals?

I'd love to try a Stilletto. How much gain is available on Ch1 Crunch?
 
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I don't think they still make them, but the Jet City 50W combo would be something to look into also, the crunch channel is JCM800-ish gain and the lead channel is Soldano saturation, I had the head version and it would definitely do what you want. Or, to step it up, check out a real Soldano HR50+, but I think those were only made as heads.
 
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Boogie Bill said:
This is bread-and-butter Mesa. This is typically the type of rig I use--a combo; Mark IV, Mark III, DC-3 or my new Mark V:35 on top of a Mesa 112 EVM Thiele cab. Or, my big Mark V combo on top of the 112 Wide-body Closed-back cab. The V has a C-90; I ordered the cab with a V30, and I love this combination!

I also have a Maverick 212 combo, and I like to gig it with a 212 Horizontal Recto cab...both with V30s. The extention cab adds a lot of low-end grunt. I can get Fender cleans, AC-30 chime, Marshall crunch and singing lead tone ala Santana with the Maverick, but it's not a high-gain metal machine.

The Lonestar might be the one that won't work for you. I've never really pushed the clean channel on one. But it IS a fantastic clean channel with a lot of range. Andy Timmons uses a Lonestar, and he can really make it sing.

Pick a Mesa, and you can find a cab to match. The 3-channel amps typically have a middle channel that has more gain than most others' lead channel. And many of the newer 2-channel amps have a clean channel that can be pushed hard.

So pick your poison. All the current amps can fit your needs, but it's worth looking at some of the older amps too. Nomad, DC-Series, Stiletto Ace, Recto-Verb, Electra-Dyne,nHeartbreaker 212, Trem-O-Verb 212, Roadster and Road King II (4-channel), Express 5:50, F-Series, Mark III and Mark IV. The Petrucci Sig would be ideal, but only.comes as a head. And I'd take a good look at the new TC-50, too.

Let me know if I can help with any questions.

Bill
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I love my Road King, but those combos weigh a ton. My backup amp is a single recto and I would go that route in a heartbeat if you wanted a head. Unfortunately, they moved the RAW setting to the second channel on the rectoverb combos.
 
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Even 1-12 tube combos weigh a ton, relatively. FWIW, I prefer a head and a 1-12 cab, one in each hand, easier to carry.

You might also search around for a used Randall RM50 head or combo, the modular ones. I had one with XTC and clean modules and loved it, tried some of the other modules and was impressed with those as well.
 
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devastone said:
Even 1-12 tube combos weigh a ton, relatively. FWIW, I prefer a head and a 1-12 cab, one in each hand, easier to carry.

You might also search around for a used Randall RM50 head or combo, the modular ones. I had one with XTC and clean modules and loved it, tried some of the other modules and was impressed with those as well.
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I have one of those...the 50 is as heavy and almost as large as some 2x12 combos. Great tones, though.
 
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You know, a Single channel with loud, and a volume boost would do...

But if two channels, I want really dirty and really dirty.

And I don't know. Maybe amp head and my 2x12 cab is it. Maybe a combo 1x12 on top of a 1x12 cab. Maybe a GT100 and powered speaker....

I'm just needing something. Not sure what.
 
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Aceman said:
You know, a Single channel with loud, and a volume boost would do...

But if two channels, I want really dirty and really dirty.
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This is another thing that makes me think of the Randall RM50. With its modular preamp, you can make it super dirty on both sides. Anything from marshall types to Mesas and Peaveys with a few turns of two thumb screws, and there are tons of modules to choose from.
 
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chadd said:
I love my Road King, but those combos weigh a ton. My backup amp is a single recto and I would go that route in a heartbeat if you wanted a head. Unfortunately, they moved the RAW setting to the second channel on the rectoverb combos.
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Ridiculous, right? It doesn't even leave my house anymore. Secure has us beat with his Quad Reverb...
 
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