text: i'm buying a gibson sg standard. what amp do you recomend?   marshall stacks are very overrated. they haven't done anything to make marshalls better in 40 years. the clean channel sounds dirty and the amps own distortion is muddy.  the sg standard is fun guitar to play. depending on your sound..........any fender tube amp will make it sound great. twin reverb is one of the best amps ever built. if you can afford one, get a mesa boogie. a one twelve combo is as loud as any four twelve stack. plus you'd be micking it up anyway on stage. mesa's are so versatile, you can achieve any sounds from them, whether you play country twang or black metal. they are perfect. but you can get that two twelve fender combo for under 800 used. whatever you do, don't buy a solid state amp. even those peavey trans tubes are garbage. i made the mistake of buying one years ago. stick with tubes. especially with those warm hums on the sg. the sg is so thin, you really don't get any resonation from the guitar's wood body. the sound you get is very dependent on your amp with that guitar. it's just strings to pickups to amp. alot of thicker body guitars get a thicker tone because they share some acoustic characteristics. sgs don't get that at all. but what you lose there, you win with the light body, great natural trem, (just shake the guitar around a little bit when you play). and kick butt sound.