Plug & Play hi gain amp suggestions

Iron1

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Since there’s not enough $#!tposting going on, here’s a new time waster for all who are pretending to work:

Have a friend who is a quality guitar player, but not the best at interfacing with technology.

He currently has a very complex, 3-channel amp, complete with three separate volume controls (one for each channel). It has an fx loop you have to turn on every time you power on the amp - and it won’t work if the pedal in the loop isn’t also turned on. To make it more exciting, you can only switch channels with a footpedal that may or may not work depending on the current humidity, air pressure and color of @FuzzyAce’s boxers on that given day.

For someone who isn’t “attention to detail” oriented or tech savvy, you can imagine all this is a recipe for frustration.

I recently suggested he find a far less complicated amp. But need some recs to give him. He only uses clean and overdriven tones. So, he could likely run a preamp pedal into a clean channel on the right amp and simply turn the pedal on/off to get where he wants to go.

Instead he said it takes 10-15 mins to get up and running… maybe.

Ok, $#!tpost those suggestions:
 
Used Royal Atlantic is super underpriced for the quality/tones (can probably find one for $1000) and basically has a great clean channel and a choice of overdrive or non-brutal high gain. Tone stack actually does what it says unlike any other Mesa. No pedals needed, set and forget attenuation onboard, plus then he owns a Mesa like a real man.
 
I have a drummer buddy who used to be in metal bands, but his dad was a professional country musician. So, he got roped into playing country music. We joke about starting the new “Death Country” crossover genre all the time.

Undead Chickin’ Pickin’ !
 
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