What Amp Should I Get? Options

[Jim S.]

Alright so my gear is really getting quite old and I'm planning on buying a new amp around Xmas. I like tube amps and is like it to have the capability of going band level loud but most of its life will be recording and practicing. Ideally I like recording late at night so I have been using the pre amp out into my FireWire recording preamp into my Mac. So it's making no noise. I wish I could crank it up and mic it but that's not possible.

I have a bunch of equipment that is like to get rid of in its place like cellestion cabinets, pedal boards and older amps.

If you had around $1000 plus what I could sell what would you get?

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[SpaseMoonkey]

Egnator, that may be another amp to look at. Fantastic cleans all the way to a nice bluesy tone then over to some Ac/Dc sounds. First tube amp I owned. I do believe they have an XLR out for recording.

But I also have to agree with the plug-in route. I use a multi-effect head ( don't think I'd call it a pedal) I love it. I can play it via speakers or headphones and either way I'm happy. That is honestly all that matters.

As always you can demo plug-ins which is great. Tons upon tons of choices, revalver, guitar rig, TH2, ignite amps, and so on. Then you can even add an IR cab to get speaker simulation. Some tweaking and you'd never know it was software doing the work for you.

Can't remember but didn't Meshuggah do use a Cubase VST on the last album? So there ya go even touring bands use that route.

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