IF...and I say IF...you didn't want to sell that amp, might I suggest one or two pedals to make your tone a little sweeter? I have had phenomenal success with a crate amp using this pedal for metal and blues...hell its a real tube screamer.
Go see if you can try out a Electro Harmonix English Muff'n two 12AY7's cascaded gives you serious goodness in the form of what I call a "marshall in a stomp box"....lemme break it down for ya if you don't mind.
The tubes do a couple of things for your tone...A) Their tubes so they will warm up that dead amp, you can clean it up and get some really nice warm chimy cleans...then crank it over and get some serious crunch...not to mention tubes naturally compress a bit, helps with a distorted tone.
B) Its a portable peddle that you can use on any amp to color the signal or even use it as a boost stomp.
C) This stomp box is nice cause you can SWITCH the tubes out. So there is a huge number of configurations you can use...considering there is 2 "12X7" spots and 5 different gain placement "12X7" so its plug and play. 2 12AX7's in that pedal ab-so-freakin-lutly scream....you can get Krank style gain out of it and it has sustain for days.
I have a Peavey Delta Blues and I love it, but I'm fortunate enough to have a woman who will buy me gear and want to learn to play and do recording stuff.
I'm blessed with an econo tweed amp and nice guitars. Enough blabbering. If you don't think a half stack is overkill and just good for looks (cept old plexi's and JCM 100, & Hiwatts) then you might want to check out a Epiphone Socal 50.....NICE amp for the money IMHO. I digress.
Guitars: Epiphone Special 2 LP modded with a SD Pearly Gates and a SD Alnico 2 flat strat pro.300K pots.Tone pros Brass Stop tailpiece.Dunlop frets dressed to .031,LSR roller nut, Spezel custom stainless steel locking tuners. Satin finished neck.Fender MIM 50's strat modded with LSR roller nut, graph tech string tree,sperzel satin chrome locking tuners, graph tech saddles,300K push pull volume for "neck on pup" and 200K tone pots.PUPS:Neck seymore duncan QP single coil for strat. Middle: Seymour Duncan JB Jr with coil tap (so actually a 9 way tone selection). Bridge: Same as neck.Amps/Cabs.2 Epi Valve Jr's, Peavey Delta Blues 1x15. Randall RG200es,Guitar research 4x8 cab loaded W/celestion super 8's and rewired for two-2x8 operation.Marshall 4x12 slant lead cab,Johnson cab 1x12.