How can I get the "perfect sound" our of this amp? It's already great, but I want perfect I've got a tube overdrive pedal (like a tubescreamer). What things should I consider recording and playing live?
Get yourself a V30 loaded cab, namely something with a great build quality, like Bogner or Mesa. A NOS RFT tube in V1 sounds killer as well. I also like using medium output pickups with the 5150.
Dont' go gain happy. Dial in a good clean tone then add your TS-9. Place mic in front of speaker, hit record. Playback see if you like, make ajustments repeat. You eventually will get what your looking for.