What's Your Favorite Clean Guitar?

[nopenopenope]

What's your favorite clean guitar signal chain? Why?

Mine's very, very simple:

Custom made Walnut Telecaster w/ Burstbuckers --> Orange Squeeze Compressor (sometimes) --> Yamaha G100 head --> homemade 2x10 cab with two different speakers

Sounds very much like later Lou Reed guitar tones, especially from the Animal Serenade album. Super clean, punchy and dark. Very tasty!

[Sean Sullivan]

Hmm...the best clean sound I've ever got was:

Epiphone Emperor (that Binky in the Dap Kings now owns) into a '65 Twin Reverb Reissue...it was larger than life, the sound was full and rich.

My friend just got an old Deluxe Reverb and playing my Telecaster through that is pretty sweet, compared to the '65 reissue he had before there's really no comparison.

But, at the moment, I personally like a little grit in my clean sound. I was at Guitar Center playing a blackface Princeton Reverb and a '56 reissue Les Paul (with P90s) and was really digging it. Fender reverb in general is just awesome, I have an Orange at the moment and a Dr. Z before that and both reverbs totally lack in comparison. The only other reverb I really like is Ampeg, but it's a darker sound.

The next amplifier I'm going to get is an old Princeton Reverb, but there's a lot of "next" I want.

[Jeff White]

American (well, highway 1) Telecaster straight through my modded (to blackface) 1977 Fender Super Reverb. I, too, like a little grit in my clean tone.

Jeff

[Dakota]

Dr. Duck's Axe Wax.





Oh, I thought you said favorite guitar cleaner...

[analogcabin]

Tele and a Jim Kelley

[cgarges]

I'm a sucker for a Rickenbacker, clean or distorted, but I'm from NC, so I kind of have to be.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

[GooberNumber9]

Any guitar into the clean channel on a Bogner Shiva.

[cooters]

my favourite so far and i found it kind of weird was a fender jaguar hh through a a roland jazz chorus. I didn't think the guitar would sound all that great but it had a really warm tone that i loved.

[Blade]

My favs...

SG thru my 67 Vox Conqueror.

Strat thru my 72 Twin Reverb, 71 Bassman head,
or the low input of my Sovtek Mig 50H with a little underlying bite to it.

My pedal steel guitar loves my Twin as well.
That's a tone to die for!!!!!!

[oldguitars]

Tele through Deluxe reverb.
Tele through SF princeton
Tele through 62 princeton

[roscoenyc]

Tele w p-90 in the neck in middle position into
'62 Bassman w 2 Jensen Alnicos or '69 Super

[joel hamilton]

Tele w p-90

You had me already at that....
I have a Tele with a broadcaster pickup in it that really likes to speak, as well. Your tele's are just other worldly though, man.

[Professor T]

I have gotten some great tones with my tele as well, but my 6120 can hold it's own.

Tele --> Deluxe Reverb
6120 (with TV Jones PU) --> Traynor YBA-1A ---> 4x10

[Recycled_Brains]

Mexican Tele w/ Texas Specials through a vintage Ampeg Reverberocket.

Also, my 82' SG through a V4 is pretty balls.

[;ivlunsdystf]

--> Yamaha G100 head -->

FINALLY! Somebody has some love for the Yamaha G-series! I have a beloved G100 combo (2x12) that sounds better than anything else I've ever tested at any price on clean guitar! I think I paid 150 for it about 12 years ago.