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Sounds to me like you want the Dual Recto. I love the Mark IV but you're not going to get it to sound exactly like a Rectifier for rhythm sounds.

91 American Strat and an Ibanez RG1527 through a Mark IV

Depending on the model replacing the pickups will probably get you closer. My RG1527 Prestige (which is a great guitar in my opinion) came with the ibanez/dimarzio pu's and they're fairly anemic. I'm replacing the pu's with Dimarzio ToneZone or Blaze Custom in the bridge and an AirNorton in...

Bought my MKIV combo w/ EV recently at a shop used in exc cond for a grand. Going price seems to be 950 - 1300 or so around here.

MKIV. Amazes me that an amp can be so versatile and sound so good at the same time. Can go from a great clean to a greasy grinding blues to screaming singing shred and pull off each one with style.

Honestly if I were to select an amp based *soley* on cleans I'd go with either a Fender Deluxe Reverb or a Twin, depending on how much headroom I needed. Though I love the MkIV clean I love the Fender cleans (and reverb) even more. Reason I went with the mesa is the versatility and the...

tasty playing and a tasty sound!

Well put. :) Yup, the key to finding the right sounds for me was when I spent some time messing with tweed power and the switches on the back. Also found I could get pretty decent sounds at practice levels by setting the amp to triode / class A / mid gain and selecting tweed power mode...

That's drop dead gorgeous. How's she sound?

I didn't like the clean sound of the F-30. I find the 6L6's used in the F-50 make for a sweeter fuller clean than the el84's used in the F-30. But I'm spoiled by Fender cleans; you might like it. Give it a listen and see.