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It's really a matter of taste.
There is no "best amp", but there are certianly amps that do not handle the bottm end well.
Generally, I find amps using EL34s to be flubby on the low end. 6L6's or KT88s seem to work much better.
My bogner ecstacy 101B tends to get muddy on the low end, but it has KT77s in it which are really just a hotrodded EL34. I should conver it to 6L6's and see what happens.
My VHT GP3 handles the bottom end great, but the VHT sound is a love or hate thing. It's a very tight, dry crunch that some people mistake for not having a lot of gain. . . when really they mean it doesn' thave a lot of saturation. For comparison, a ubershall has tons of saturation, wheras a VH4 has tons of gain. You hear all the notes in a chord even at high gain, and some people don't like this.
Then there are the amps that are the standards for detuned and 7 strings:
Peavy 5150 (all the varients)
Framus cobra
Mesa rectumfriers
Engl powerball
Knucklehead
Just plan stuff until you find what you like. Also remember that what may sound good in the store or in your bedroom often will record completly different and sound even different loud and live in a mix.
-W
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