On Craigs point, what kind of guitar is it you use? Rikenbackers are quite popular in that scene though...Converge use them...
I don't see why the amp should limit his sound if he's playing through a clean channle...fenders are guff for high gain distortion on their own but surely using a metal zone into the clean channle would return favourable results? All the amp would be doing is making it loud rather than producing the acctual distortion?
If it has an effect loop could you put it into the return side and eliminate the amplifiers pre-amp so then the amp would just be amplifying the signal from the pedal...sort of like the pedal becoming the pain tone controls? I am sure I've done this with a DS-1 into my Marshall and it sounded all right.
And for that kind of music you'd be wanting scooped mids but with a bit of crunch, so put some mid in bt not too much?
Experiment!
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Buy another amp, I wouldn't say sell the fender as it may prove useful in the future and you'll kick yourself for getting rid. For value the Laney TF320 like Rennie's is decent for that style of music, plenty output and power, reliable and if you wanna make it bigger you can buy an extension cab. It's also go two drive channles so with a distortion pedal you can have 3 choices of drive...or more if you combine...
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