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:
 
WTF is he playing through?! :rofl

I’d just go with an Iconic or something along those lines. Two channels, no shared craziness, just turn it on and play!
 
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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