My pleasure. You actually touch on something very important to me personally - sound. I have found that spending a bit of money on an effects board has added more enjoyment. In the Highway to Hell lesson - link in my sig - Mike gives the amp set up to achieve an AC DC like tone. I plugged his numbers into my effects board and voila! Sounds close enough to me. Imagine playing AC DC with a Buddy Holly tone! No disrepect to BH but that's really not going to work, at least for me.

We have a number of pedals at home, but my recent purchase of a dedicated board has shown me that I can have countless tone possibilities in 1 unit at a very reasonalbe price. My G3n cost $200CAD new, but on any given day, pedals and boards on our local music swap are priced from 30 to 50% off retail and musicians are constanly swapping out gear for something new.