So I've almost always used Ampegs, I had a brief foray with Ashdown and Hartke, but then back to the Ampeg. I currently play in a covers band, a pretty rocky one at that. Earlier this year I decided I'd had enough of carting around my SVT and I'd give my back a well-earned rest with a Genz Benz Shuttle 6.0
I plugged it into my Barefaced S12T and beauty poured out of the speakers; such a lovely clean and natural tone. I now had decent mids unlike the Ampeg (my only real criticism of them to be honest). A few hours later I sat down trying to work out how to recapture that great valvey grunting rock'n'roll sound I'd spend years with. Six months later and about a dozen pedals later I'm gigging with this super light cab and amp, plus a tone trunk loaded with 5 pedals to get my sound or as close as I can find to it. Why?
I've now bought myself a Gallien Krueger 1001RB-ii, its the nuts. It's pretty heavy, I cant throw over my shoulder in an accompanying manbag like the Genz Benz, and I'm glad about that actually.
I know a lot of people here are loving thier super light class-D amps, but for me there was always something missing, it just wasn't rock'n'roll. I don't need a bank of pedals to get the sound I want now, just my Fender and a lead...
My back will hate me again now but at least everything sounds good.