Originally Posted by: Polera... Its a good product you wont waste your money.

[font=trebuchet ms]Especially if you try it for a while and then sell it to some other poor, dumb, bastard who thinks that 'modeling' will give them access to all of the great guitar tones in the world.

>major rant<
Try out as much gear as you can get your hands on, but don't ever expect that any one thing will do it all. If there's a particular sound you're after, you may well need to acquire a rig that is chosen for just that kind of sound. And that will not cover all of the other stuff too.

Tone is an organic synergy of component parts that may not work cohesively to any other purpose. If you want to do the 'cover band' thing, then one of the new solid state modeling amps will solve a lot of your problems in terms of [u]emulating[/u] (that's computerspeak for ripping off) another band's sound. But if you ever expect to arrive at a definitive sound that you can claim as your own, you won't find it here. Not unless you want to be known for a sterile, processed, anyone-can-duplicate-it kind of quasi-tone.

Please forgive the rant. I have not always succeeded in my search for good tone, but I have always tried. I get upset at the suggestion that such a quest is somehow not worthwhile, or even unecessary. One thing that makes our chosen instrument worthy above all others is that it is both very accessable to a beginner, and so very intimately expressive in the hands of a skilled artisan.
>/rant<

Those who would cheapen our craft in order to allow the lowest common denominator to impress the ignorant masses, earn my deepest contempt.

And I count modeling amplifiers as among the worst offenders in this regard.[/font] :mad: