Help me choose an amp! (Page 1 of 2)

I have a JVM410H and it's a beautiful thing ! It does the clean stuff nicely, the crunch can be Jubilee style or 800 style and the heavier stuff is just insane. I play in a ( very ) heavy rock band, and the gain never goes beyond 4 on the Orange OD channels... But the beauty comes from the clean and crunch channels which are just as good as it gets... Plus it sounds really good at low volumes.

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Joe himself chimes in on the best amps under a grand.

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Amps Joe used on Chains and Things

I already have a super champ xd that sound ok on voice 8 for the marshall thing. I have the gain backed off to 3 and use a blackstar ht-dual or fulltone ocd for the drive sounds. The cornell plexi 7 is tickling my fancy. Very simple and minimum fuss. I really love the blackface setting on the XD. Maybe I could try a couple of mods on the super champ xd to see if I can get that marshall thing a bit better. Maybe through a vintage 30 speaker would help.

Has anyone tried the MA series from Marshall?  I am still looking for a good tube amp under $1,000 but I'd prefer new as versus used and then have to sink more $$$ into it.

I am in a similar situation. I am currently looking for an amp that I would use mainly at home for practice and take it to sessions that I join every once in a while. So I want a good sound at low volume but the amp should be able to do small club gigs / sessions.
Just yesterday I have checked the Hughes & Kettner Statesman amps, both the 20 and 40 Watt version. These are really impressive amps with nice cleans and great crunch. And they sound good at bedroom level. You should try them.

Thanks bro, and of those choices I definately reccomend the Super Reverb.  The only drawback is that it's a little heavy.  The great thing about the Super Reverbs are that they have all of the quintessential Fender goodies: killer reverb, tremolo, great cleans, takes pedals well, ect.  They Super is rated between 40-45 watts which is perfect for low volume clean playing and a nice grind without blowing your head off.
Here's a slight disclaimer though:  I've never been nuts about the reissue amps.  They usually sound good by themselves but sound harsher when you use pedals.  I couldn't ever get a warm overdrive from my Twin + overdrives.  They are very overpriced IMO because you can get a vintage one for less than a reissue!  I paid $800 for my '68 Super Reverb!  I would scour the earth for a Silverface pre-master volume Fender combo and put a Tubescreamer/Fulldrive 2 in front of it.  Cheers

Why don't you add the Vibrolux Reverb to your list? Same wattage as the Super Reverb but 2X12's speakers instead, which is a lot easier on your back than the 4X10's!!! I'll keep following your thread because I have a Metro JTM45 head I'm not totally satisfied with (I'm really hard to satisfy). I may change it in a near future, and a vibrolux might do the trick (if I find a US citizen willing  to ship it to Europe... well, that's another matter...) or I may get a Tiny Terror head + a matching clean amp head to go into my cab and follow the several-amp-rig model... Have to consider that too... Anyway, I realize that no one has ever had me spend so much dough on gear than Joe since I'm on this forum... Geez, I have bought a Les Paul, sold three amps and got three others since I'm here, I don't even count pedals anymore because it's sick, and I'm still selling/searching. Good luck man!
Cheers