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Mesa/Boogie Mark VII 90-watt Tube Amplifier Head - Black with Black/Cream Grille
90W/45W/25W, 3-channel Tube Guitar Amp Head with 9 Modes, Simul-Class Power Amp, Graphic EQ, FX Loop, CabClone IR, and Reverb - Black with Black/Cream Grille
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Mesa/Boogie JP-2C John Petrucci Signature 60-watt/100-watt Tube Amp Head - Black Carbon, Sweetwater Exclusive
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Revv Generator G50 50W/10W Tube Amplifier Head - Western Tuxedo, Sweetwater Exclusive
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Peavey Invective.120 - 120-watt Tube Head
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Looking for a guitar amp head that can cover a vast sonic range? A 3 channel guitar amp may be your solution. Whether you’re looking at tube amps or solid state amplifiers, multiple channels allow you to dial in different tones and switch between them on the fly. By choosing a 3 channel guitar amp you can cover rhythm, lead, and atmospheric duties all from the same amplifier.
3 Channel Guitar Amp Heads
A common configuration for a 3 channel guitar amp head offers Clean, Crunch, and Lead channels. Clean has the lowest gain available, but can generally be driven into crunch territory at high gain settings. A dedicated Crunch channel starts off with some dirt, and generally reaches into full distortion at the top of its gain range. And with the lead channel, you usually start with sustaining distortion, with even more gain available from there.
There are a lot of ways you can approach a 3 channel guitar amplifier. You can obviously set three distinct tones with different gain levels, to cover the range from clean to distortion. However, most 3 channel guitar amps also offer different tone controls for each channel. This means you can make big changes to your tone channel-to-channel, without using drastically different gain settings. Every guitar amplifier is different, so spend some time learning the gain ranges and tone-shaping potential for all channels on your amplifier.
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Considering how wide a range of tones you need to cover will help you narrow down the best 3 channel guitar amp for your style. From there, check out Sweetwater’s
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