Oh yes, have I ever experimented with my TA-30 combo and love it!
GuyB.....the next thing to do is use Ch1 Top Boost for high gain crunch and/or lead sounds set to 30W (with no master) and set the cut to 10 or 11 while playing a single coil guitar. Will it be loud....Hell yes, but so nice!!
The TA-30 offers tremendous great tone and flexibility for a 2 channel amp.
I love all of the modes offered on the TA-30 and the power settings. Personally, I prefer the 30W power mode for most of my playing, but will push it up to 40W for maximum crunch/lead high gain sounds in H1 and H2 modes of Ch2.
Personally, clean sounds do matter to me (no offense Don), and the TA-30 delivers very nicely in either channel (Ch1 Normal or Ch2 Tweed mode) depending upon how it is dialed in.
The really, really, really nice thing about the Top Boost mode of Ch1 is that I can set it fairly "hot" for the nice "clean" high gain crunch sound and dial my guitar volume back to clean it up very nicely. In the meantime.....I usually set Ch2 to H1 mode and switch to my HB pickup for crisp and focused high gain crunch work. I find Ch2 H1 mode to usually be my preferred for high gain lead work with the TA-30 (at least so far), but will sometimes switch to H2. However, H2 is much darker sounding so I do find myself needing to compensate by adjusting my amp tone knobs/guitar tone knobs to brighten H2 up a bit for lead work.
My primary amp is a MkV and it is by far my preferred #1 amp.....especially for gigs, but my TA-30 offers great tones as well that I really enjoy playing and it definitely offers great sounds and certainly enough volume to be a gigging amp as well.
I must say that I haven't been able to dial in the urgent and classic british "clean" crunch sound offered in Top Boost mode of TA-30 with my MkV so far, and that is saying something considering the incredible versatility of the MkV!