I'm in the "amp makes a bigger tone difference than guitar" camp, unless I'm playing very clean, which I rarely do. I always like a little hair on my clean tones.
I could maybe get by with one or two amps, but it's SO much more effective in the studio to have several choices (incidentally, modeling amps and Kemper hybrids are not the cure, they're the disease, and don't even think about suggesting otherwise! ).
I can't handle having more than a handful of guitars. They're all PRS, because I love the tone of PRS'.
But amps? I could probably be happy with an endless summer's worth of them. And I'm kinda brand-agnostic when it comes to amps, because they're all different in fascinating ways.
This all leads me to the HRDX. Based on what I've heard, it's fundamentally different from my HXDA. I'm breathing pretty hard on this one. Not asking for advice, of course. I know what my advice would be - what have I got to lose, just get one!
I'm going to start saving up.
"Guitars are different in fascinating ways, too, Les."
"True. But they're less fascinating - to me."
"This anti-modeling amp thing you have..."
"Someone has to tell the emperor he has no clothes. So I elected myself to be that guy."
"Maybe you should start a One Man March on Washington to proclaim your anti-modeler-ness to the world and attract others to your cause."
"I know you're being tongue-in-cheek here, but...maybe so!"
I could maybe get by with one or two amps, but it's SO much more effective in the studio to have several choices (incidentally, modeling amps and Kemper hybrids are not the cure, they're the disease, and don't even think about suggesting otherwise! ).
I can't handle having more than a handful of guitars. They're all PRS, because I love the tone of PRS'.
But amps? I could probably be happy with an endless summer's worth of them. And I'm kinda brand-agnostic when it comes to amps, because they're all different in fascinating ways.
This all leads me to the HRDX. Based on what I've heard, it's fundamentally different from my HXDA. I'm breathing pretty hard on this one. Not asking for advice, of course. I know what my advice would be - what have I got to lose, just get one!
I'm going to start saving up.
"Guitars are different in fascinating ways, too, Les."
"True. But they're less fascinating - to me."
"This anti-modeling amp thing you have..."
"Someone has to tell the emperor he has no clothes. So I elected myself to be that guy."
"Maybe you should start a One Man March on Washington to proclaim your anti-modeler-ness to the world and attract others to your cause."
"I know you're being tongue-in-cheek here, but...maybe so!"