Oh, I forgot one other thing. My Zoom G5 pedal was an epic failure :-(. I was afraid this was going to be the case. The sound was harsh with way too much high freqs despite the fact that I set the amp to a flat eq. It also sucked out the characteristic tone of my strat. After I got it set up and it sounded OK, I unplugged my pedal and plugged my guitar straight in and it sounded WAY better.

I'll have to do some research and futz around more. I'm hoping I just don't have something setup correctly.

As a tool for practicing and recording it's still excellent, so it's not a total failure :-).

The amp I was playing through was a Fender Frontman with 2 speakers. I forget the specific model name. Even though it's not a tube amp, I was very pleased with how it sounded.