I came very close to finding my lead tone then I changed the choke and OT to magnetic components, now I back to square one in tweaking the tonestack, but the clean channel is much richer now IMHO.

It's frustrating when you get a sound one day then the next day you turn the amp on and you think that lead channel sounds like crap again and yes I only use the lead with the PAB engaged.

Most of the time I just leave it alone because I am too lazy to pull the chassis out of the cabinet again and chase tone and end up using the HRM for cleans & Stray Cat for my lead sound.

Sometimes you can spend too much time tweaking and not enough playing.

Thanx for the info guys

I was looking at Nik's new lineups of OTS amps and I noticed there is a Ford Mustang Modern Eagle Mod version.
Anyone have any insight to what that may be?

I was always impressed with Steve Farris's tone on "Welcome To The Real World" album, that was long before I even knew what a Dumble was.

I came across this sad news on another forum, another great one gone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12377862

I just finished building a TL806 cab loaded with a EVM12L Classic 8 speaker I bought from the US.

I decided to build one because I got sick of carrying around a 4x12 to rehearse in a small room

First impressions are good with both amps but it is bit quieter than the 4x12 (understandably) and it has really nice bottom end.

I am sure it will sound even better after a burn in.

I would like to live next door to that guy, so he can hear my Ceriatone Amps at full volume.

I am really becoming a #183 fan, nice tone

That's a great sounding amp+nice playing as well! All od is from the amp? The speakers used; are they a copy of the g12-65?
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Thanks Erwin

All the OD is the amp, no pedals needed with this.
The speakers are WGS ET-65's very happy with them.

Here is a second clip with better mic placement and light reverb, same amp setting as before.

http://soundcloud.com/nairbr/stray-cat-strat02

A friend of mine was mucking around with my Stray Cat 30 so I decided to record it, just to show the gain channel.

http://soundcloud.com/nairbr/stray-cat-30-strat-mid-pu

recorded totally dry no effects & compression

Amp Settings:
1/2 power
Valve Rectifier
Gain Channel
Gain 10 o'clock
Edge 12 o'clock
Level 10 o'clock
Bass 11 o'clock
Treble 1 o'clock
Brilliance 1 o'clock
Master 9 o'clock

Guitar: Fender Customshop Ash Body Strat with Lindy Fralin Vintage Hots
Cab: Marshall 4x12 with WGS ET-65's

I agree with Rane008.
I have both and the C_Lator adds a nice warmth to the amp that the Klein cannot match.
IMHO one or the other is a must with these amps if you run time based effects.
A Univibe is one time based effect that sounds better not being in the loop, to my ears anyway

Stray Cat is great on low gain settings for blues, this amp loves Strats and the amp has heaps of sustain. Its a Vox and a Marshall after a love affair and you need a A/B/Y box to get the most out of it.

Another good choice would be a HRM Bluesmaster.

They are totally different sounding amps just depends on your flavor of blues and guitars.

If I could mix and match I would love an amp with HRM cleans and with the Stray Cat gain channel

Nice sounding amp and playing

Tasty playing and great sound as usual Keep them coming