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Okay, I own 4 amps.. they're all of a decent size/wattage, but the crowning achievement is the 300wt Behringer amp with a ton of built in effects and it sounds pretty good, but ...
Today, I was playing through a Squire Champ15 which is basically a practice amp.. the distortion is just fucking AMAZING. Like, Big Black-type distortion out of that thing, just BUILT-IN. It was the best kind of distortion: it sounded like a fucking vaccuum cleaner sucking up a blender but you could tell every note apart still (so, it wasn't a "New Day Rising"-era Husker Du distortion, it was a "Zen Arcade"-era Husker Du distortion). Just unreal.
So, I went ahead and bought it for $40. Fucking great! I can see myself playing out of it a lot more than my 300watt Behringer amp for recording and perhaps for playing live (it may not be powerful enough to play live with actually but oh well; definitely using this for recording!).
So, while at the music store, I played out of a Line6 amp which was also 15 watts and $100 and it sounded fucking UNREAL. It had 4 distortion settings: clean, metal, crunch, and INSANE. Yes, there was a distortion setting called "insane". That amp sounded unbelievable, it had weird effects switches and a REALLY weird tremolo effect that sounded unlike any tremolo effect I'd heard. It was more tremolo-ey than anything I'd ever heard: everything I was playing sounded like a skipping CD. It was fucking amazing! Jesus, I almost bought that too! (instead, I bought a kazoo, some Ernie Ball strings, and a ukelaley -- however the fuck you spell it; total price: $37).
So, yeah, it's odd, I've played out of amps of many shapes and sizes, but the ones I am really attracted to are the small, quirky ones, often with built in effects or super fuzzy distortion and not the loud huge clanging banging ones. Eh.
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