How Important are Pristine Cleans to You?

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As stated in the topic title:

  • Not important at all.

    Votes: 15 28.3%

  • Important enough to consider?

    Votes: 16 30.2%

  • A must have!

    Votes: 22 41.5%
  • Total voters
    53
glpg80

glpg80

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not talking dirty cleans, but crystal cleans in a switching amplifier. more important than a crunch channel? more important than a solo boost? not important at all?

post up what you look for :cheers:

for me, i look for an amplifier that can pull it off because i practice on cleans, but play out on lead channels and use my volume knob.
 
For my current band so-so. I can use slightly overdriven sounds for my 'clean' work; sometimes I'll crystal clean but it depends on my mood. But for noodling around at home it's awesome.
 
dont use clean very much and when I do I like it fat and hairy ;)
 
I play "clean" about 50% of the time. However, I can't stand pristine cleans. Even when using pristine amps (Twin or Princeton) I boost them to dirty them up. Unless it's a situation where I can crank the amp. My ideal clean is the kind you get from an old non-MV Marshall.
 
Depends on the gig for me...I've got it covered when I need them.
 
Clean channel is very important to me, It seems lately I have been playing on the clean channel more than the gain channel...
 
Not very important,I play clean at home mostly,for practice purposes.
I'd rather have a tight crunchy channel.
 
I like my cleans with a tad of grit on them anyway, so I am fine without a spanky clean channel.
 
I look for something in between the SS sterile cleans of the Engl Fireball 60 I used to own and my Marshall 2553, where the cleans are very harry with humbuckers, but usable with Single coils. For me its easy to get more dirt, hard to clean up. Having some character on the cleans to me is a good thing, just not too gritty.
 
locoed":3t12iqai said:
Not very important,I play clean at home mostly,for practice purposes.
I'd rather have a tight crunchy channel.
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This.

I use cleans primarily for practising. As for playing, the cleans I like are smooth and brown. Not super crystally and light, I like to have that piano-percussive sound.

So it's something I consider, but I don't base my preference on an amp's clean whatsoever. If it has it and kills it, great, but if it's just par, fine by me.

V.
 
I must have a good clean. I have found that as I get older it is more important to me!! When I was younger it didn't matter near as much!
 
The only thing I need are good cleans and a good high gain channel, I can work around everything else. So to answer the question, for me a good channel is important :thumbsup:
 
To me, good cleans are a Class A amp with the edge of power tube distortion, cranked up a bit. Not SS clean. Roland Jazz Chorus is a good clean.

Matchless Chieftan is a good clean to my ears. Divided by 13 is good too. Not gonna get that out of a high gain head clean channel. At least I have not found it yet. :lol: :LOL: Rivera and SLO both have good cleans when 2 power tubes pulled and cranked loud as hell for my purposes. But it is not like the Zinky/Matchless/Divided By 13.

Early Dire Straits cleans are what I consider ideal.

I ended up buying a Zinky Velvet for that soulful clean. A great clean and a single coil can be inspirational for noodling.
 
I try to get my cleans to be as clean as possible, but it's kinda hard with the amps I have (JCM800, Mark III, 5150, Recto). Therefore, I pretty much just run with whatever I can get. If it has some grit to it, that's fine. I usually soak it in effects anyway since the cleans aren't great.
 
I do not like pristine cleans very much. When playing with a band super clean sounds do not sound right to my ears.

If you check out what a lot of people think of as great cleans .... Fender / Vox tones ~ you well find they are not super clean .... just listen to all the recordings of these amps. They are more distorted than a lot of people think. I am talking about below edge of break up sounds / blues overdrive tones.

You need a few harmonics being created by the amp to give the sound warmth. If I wanted pristine cleans I would be looking at solid state amps (never owned one).
 
glpg80":yxn3mrp3 said:
not talking dirty cleans, but crystal cleans in a switching amplifier. more important than a crunch channel? more important than a solo boost? not important at all?
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Good cleans are important as the crunch in many ways. But the crunch channel is by far the most important to me as when playing live this is where I spend most of my time.
Solo boost is not very important to me ..... there are many ways to get this effect and do not need it on my amp.
 
For me, not important at all. To me, a good "rock n roll' clean is all I need (roll back my guitar's volume and hit my chorus pedal).
 
Very important! I do a lot of ambient effect-based recording with clean sounds. Lately I've been using an old Fender Silverface pro reverb 410 combo with my stompboxes. :rock: Sounds amazing! Hopefully my Recto's clean channel will be improved once Dave gets done with it.
 
I like a full body clean. Even funky stuff I simply split the coils and roll the volume back a tad. Even in the cover band stuff with all the disco/funk/'80s pop I don't mind a little balls, just no dirt in it. But the most important thing to me is the blues dirt on up.
 
It was important when I was in a 2 guitar-band. Now that I'm the only one not so much.

Giga
 
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