Need Advice Rock/Modern Country Some crunch

I have been without an amp for years. I am forming a new band which will play regular rock, some newer country blended rock and adult contemporary.

I recently bought a Schecter guitar which has active humbuckers on it. I bought it because it feels and plays beautifully.

I would like a nice tube tone - I want it to really feel like I am playing a tube amp.

What amps should I consider? I have been looking into AC30 clones by Ceriatone, supposed to be like a Matchless DC30.

Volume wise I need to compete with a drummer and bass in a regular home type rehearsal space.

Budget would be about $1100 maximum.

I went through this exact process a couple of years ago (trying to get a Badcat or Matchless tone for a budget), and I ended up getting a modified Mesa-Boogie F30 for $900 (mine has the same "green" speaker as a classic Vox). I've seen them much cheaper on eBay (still available from dealers for about $700) ....or you can probably find an F50 if you need a little more power. You can probably spend a little more than your budget and find a Lone Star series, which has a few more bells and whistles.... I haven't tried their new Express series, but the controls look very similar to the F series.

Boogie, in my opinion, offers a great value class A tube amp that sounds much better than the standard high end Fender and Vox models for just a little more price. Side by side to a Badcat (that the other guy in my band plays through), the F30 holds its own....with the brightness on to twangs nicely with a telecaster or strat, although the Badcat has a more "in your face attack"...., but for my money it wasn't prudent to spend another $2000 to get that quality (although, money no object...I'd buy a Badcat in an instant). The F30's dirty channel is very versatile, going from warm Chicago blues to Van Halen "brown" with the standard gain..... plus there is a contour option if you want the mid taken out for more of a modern hard rock/heavy metal power chord tone (I don't really use it). There are definitely amps that can do these tones better individually, but I think the Boogie comes really close with the ability to do all of them "well enough" for the studio or heavy gigging.

It has an effects loop and the option for a extension speaker in the back....plus a "speaker emulated output" for recording. It's very loud for a small single speaker combo amp. Loud enough to be heard clearly over the hardest hitting drummers I've played with.

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