Favorite amps for Strats?

[Fro68]

The Band Commander or Vibroverb with a drive in front.

 

[Cainer]

Super Verb, Vibratoverb, and Plexi 50/100.

If you want the Fenders to get gnarly, crank the volume and treble, bass down below 3.

 

[sheky]

Which Vibroverb?

I float between them. Right now I'm on the AB. I often back off the bass & push the mids a bit.

 

[JoKeR III]

Nuclear Tone. All levels of gain. No further replies necessary.

 

[Dave Merrill]

Nuclear Tone. All levels of gain. No further replies necessary.

Word.

 

[Joe Bfstplk]

65 Bassguy Bass, cranked up a bit is nice....

 

[Jetset95]

Favourite amp for Strats for what? Blues trio, 80's Pop gig, 80's Hair Metal gig, 90's Grunge gig... The list goes on, as do the list of amps that work with a Strat-type guitar.

 

[KyleHowdy]

Another fun modification is to bump the master volume trim to 2. Gives you more gain in the poweramp and sounds great!

I do this often on the ac20 and on the double verb.

 

[austinbuddy]

Depends on what you want… but a ‘59 Bassman, a JTM45, a Dirty Shirley are all great choices…. Don’t overlook the Bogner Strato preamp as well. The Klon drive set to a neutral-ish clean boost can really help a Strat out with most amps…

 

[Piing]

Marshall Major


Just wait for it to be added to the Axe-FX

 

[GuyJames]

Dirty Shirley

I was going to say the same and I’m glad this was the first response! For fat cleans with no tweaking though the bandmaster is a crowd favorite… also really enjoying the Dr. Z amp in there.

 

[Gregmang]

The Morgan AC-20’s (all of ‘em), literally almost any of the early Fenders (for me the Vibtoverbs AA or AB), JTM and about a thousand others.

 

[rog]

I’m currently in the process of rebuilding my main kitchen sink preset. I started with making the switch to dynacabs, and now everything is on the table and I’m trying new amps. My main guitar is a single coil strat and I tend to gravitate towards edge of breakup, but also need clean and mid gain (which I’ve generally achieved with a pedal into an EOB amp).

What are your favorite amps/cabs/pedals for strats and tips for dialing them in?

DC-30...which I must really like the sound of, because that was my go to with the Helix, as well.

 

[Bruce Sokolovic]

Double verb for clean

 

[Johnkenn]

I've had the axe fx for 15 years (yikes) and been through all of them. If I had to choose one, it would be the Vibroverb. I'm using The Ownhammer Vibroverb IR's.

Others that have been great for me is the Princetone AA964, Swart, and the Carr Rambler with the dynacabs is just amazing.

Using the exact same config - Vibroverb (AB) with Ownhammer VV IR. Just glorious.

 

[Johnkenn]

Was also gonna say the Brown Super with input boosted. And the Tweed Deluxe is just the sound of a lot of rock from the 70s-90s that I love.

 

[Planta Fantasma]

Soldano Solo 88 is an amazing preamp model. I tried all of the preamp models when I first got the AXE FX 3 & it's currently in my #1
clean preset. It's extremely versatile.

 

[skydog]

I’m currently in the process of rebuilding my main kitchen sink preset. I started with making the switch to dynacabs, and now everything is on the table and I’m trying new amps. My main guitar is a single coil strat and I tend to gravitate towards edge of breakup, but also need clean and mid gain (which I’ve generally achieved with a pedal into an EOB amp).

What are your favorite amps/cabs/pedals for strats and tips for dialing them in?

Strats and Fender tweeds are designed for each other. The first Marshalls are basically a tweed Fender bassman with UK components. Common knowledge.

 

[Andrew Male]

Marshall Super Lead 100 (1959) sounds delicious with single coils, been listening to Graham Coxon from Blur and he uses a tele with 2 of these amps, tried it with my strat and it's creamy, jangly heaven, takes pedals really well too.