Well, this is sort of in the wrong subforum (perhaps more accurately placed in the Amps subforum), but I'll chime in regardless:
I started out playing a cheap guitar that happened to be set up pretty good, into lousy (I mean super lousy) amps, because I didn't understand that a good tube amp would make a world of difference. The 80s was not a good decade to buy small cheap SS amps. "Oh, it will be good enough for me. I can't play all that well anyway. It doesn't need to be very loud. The other guitarists I know get great tone because of their talent, not equipment. I can't afford a Marshall stack, and everything else is a compromise, right?"
Eventually I figured out that I should spend at least a bit of cash on a good amp, and bought a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, because it was the only tube amp under $1000 in my local shops that sounded good, with a really nice clean channel. And the dirty channel was classic Neil Young dirt, to my ears.
I played that for maybe two decades before I decided that I needed a PRS amp to go with my PRS guitars, and I picked up a 100W Archon head + cab. Whoa baby!
So...moral of my story is spend a bit more than you think you should if it gets you to that "next level" of amp. I wish I had. Shoulda woulda coulda...
That being said, the Katana is something that has been on my radar as a good all-round amp, and if I needed to pick up an all-in-one modeling-with-tons-of-effects amp I think I would grab that.
I don't need a modeling amp, and I have a bajillion pedals.
If you truly want a Fender-ish tube amp, the Sonzera sounds like a nice choice in the PRS line up.
