So... is it me, or is the key to a really good clean sound a really good reverb setting? Maybe its personal taste or something but I can't have one without the other. Now if I could just dial it in...
Dunno, 'Hookster.
I mean, for funk, you might want it completely dry, for example.
To my mind, the key to a meaningful clean sound, and by that I mean something with character, something non-80s-style, is the existence of warmth in the mids to lower mids. Some woody body in there is, for me at least, what separates the men from the boys.