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@Dooks-Fatberg
I haven't plugged into an amp in about a year and when I do it's only a champ or borrowed twin in the studio. My rule of thumb is turn it up till it's just about breaking up when hit hard then add pedals for filth. Clean-clean would be backing off a bit on the guitar volume. But fuckit man. Rules are made to be broken. I was watching a J Mascis thing last night and he was talking about doing something akin to the total opposite of this. He runs his amps super clean and what sounds like his amp-on-the-edge of breakup clean sound is actually an overdrive with the volume turned down, which he then OVERRULES with tone of fuzz. He reckons you need that superclean base tone in order to get the volume jump when you kick the fuzz in otherwise instead of getting louder everything just squashes and compresses more with the result that it actually sounds quieter.