I’ve been on the old pedalboard to work with amps and amps to work with pedals journey this year. I went fully ax8 for a while but just couldn’t get it to a place where I was 100% happy so this year I have tried the following:
Victory V40 head - lacked mids and made all my pedals sound fizzy
Tubemeister Deluxe - felt hard to play, lacked feel, didn’t sound great with my pedals
Peavey Classic 20 - I like this one, had a decent Di out as well
Suhr Bella - really wanted to like this but I found it horribly bright
Two Rock Tradiitional Clean - just perfect, great feel, great depth and truly takes and pedal well
Now onto the pedals, finally settled with - tc mini tuner > Pigtronix philosophers tone comp > digitech ricochet > Wampler Euphoria > Source Audio Liquid Chorus > J Rockett HRM > J Rockett The Dude > Ramble Fx Marvel Drive 3 > JHS AT+ > ISP Decimator > Foxgear Echosex baby > Neaunaber Wet > Wampler Tumnes all looped through a gigrig qmx6 for switching.
I’ve tried:
Bognor ecstasy Blue
Wampler Pinnacle Deluxe
Xotic SL drive
Source Audio la lady
Walrus Audio Animals delay
JHS AT
Friedman BE-EO
Friedman Dirty Shirley
Keeley Superphat
Kelley D&M Drive
The Bogner was a tough choice to remove from the board but the marvel drive and the AT+ are all conquering!