Amp recommendations!

"... turn your fuckin gain down." i did and the recording is awesome.

I'll bet it is, there's a lot going on in a guitar signal and the tube amp twists and adds to it as do pedals of course.... and then there's everything downstream of the speaker from the room to the control room speakers! like I try not to compress dirty guitar because its already beign levelled by the clipping, but I still compress the mix buss or I might group the guitar and some other tonal elements to a parallel compression send to 'glue' a mox and taylor some attack and decay characteristics in context to enhance the groove... and in those applications I am adding THD to the guitar in the mix... I woulda asked before I gave my opinion or if it was that hard to deal with and I couldn't find a chain that controlled the audio correctly while minimizing the artifacts that were unpleasant I woulda prefaced it with "its your music and your band, and maybe its your goal to make my ear uncomfortable and to sit back in the mix no matter how I balance it, BUT... you're new to guitar and can we try 1 pass with the gain down?"

I modified my last post a bunch because I realized I sounded like more of a dick than I actually am. I think I said some sensible stuff you might wanna read being new to guitar and relatively new to pro audio.

Blackstar HT Series, either the HT-20 or HT-40 combos. Can be found used for under $400, and can be utilized as a bedroom amp and for gigs. Problem solved!

The hiwatt G50cmr is a great option

I've never heard o this hiwatt? I mean, they have a few models ranging from 5 watts now that are a mystery to me but I've enver heard of the one you're mentioning.... I know their parent company I now making those solid-state 'maxwatt' amps with hiwatt cosmetics and strangely they are getting better reviews than hiwatt UK's tube amps LOL But what's a Hiwatt G50?

i'm Sorry, it belongs to the maxwatt series

okay, I feel better.... I would debate the hiwatt badge on any amp baring the name since Dave Reeves died. its not like Marshall where the dude owned the company but was really just involved in cab design and finance and the amps were designed by a team, Hiwatts were a 1 man show until Harry joyce got involved and his company just did wiring to raise the production numbers without sacrificing the quality hand wiring. Until Dave died it was 100% Reeves designed. Being a former Mullard employee I highly doubt Dave woulda put his name on a solid state amp if he were alive. I just can't see it, not judgement on tansistors, just saying, he was a tube Hifi head who went over to instrument and PA circuits at a time when everyone was predicting the death of tubes...

so the maxwatt sounds good? the reviews are good but Music Ground ahs no shortage of money to dump into purchasing good reviews. it seems very expensive for a solid state piece. Aren't they 2 or 300 hundred US dollars? Is it trying to sound like a tube amp or is it more like the Quilter amps where they just sound GOOD and do their own thing (and cost an arm and a leg so you might as well get a tube amp)????? I am a little weirded out by a soldstate amp with channel switching in a Hiwatt-style box. Hiwatts are so abre bones for a big head and I kinda love and embrace that.... the only big amps with elss options are the Marshall major and the early Oranges with like 5 knobs (1 of which is pointless, turn it up)

Sorry to be late to for the conversation.

I can't recommend Blackstar Amps enough. Great value and options. The ISF feature is killer Going from Tight low end bass of a American Voicing or the more pronounced mid range you get from British Amps

HT-5 Combo, under $300 pretty loud if you want it to be. OD is so good that you don't really need a Distortion pedal. Light and takes pedals well. Very good cleans too.

ID 15TVP under $230. Offers realistic tube tone with 6 Voicings and Tube options to shape your tone. IMO way better than any modeling amp. The 15 is not the wattage but sounds as loud as a 15w tube amp

ID20 or 40. IMO your best fit. With super wide stereo activated via Insider Software makes you amp sound much bigger than it is and will provide satisfactory tone at low volumes. Like the ID 15TVP you have 6 voicings and onboard effects. Very lightweight and under $150 for the ID20 and $200 for the ID40.

All these amp feature Emulated lines out for connecting to a DAW or PA. All will fill a large room with sound