Guitar amp and effects questions

[CookMySock]

Need some sort of pre-amp to get the signal into the computer. Plus I'm not really into sitting in front of the pc when jamming - jamming - I hope you like jamming too.

My son is the guitarist here.. The mic input on the PC works perfectly well with a low-level pickup input. We have amp, speakers, and sub on our media PC so it works mint, with sound clarity far in excess of any "guitar amp".

We use rakarrack, but its Linux only.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rakarrack/

[Fatt Max]

For practice/lounge/solo. I'm still definitely in the "learning" mode but want to play around a bit more.

Looking at a staggered purchase (if applicable) and budget depends somewhat on the answer but is probably lower end (but not crappy end).

Looking at $250-450 for an amp (negotiable), and considering the roland cube 20xl. Not sure about effects stuff at this point, but if was going multi-effect would prob start with a boss me25 ($360).

Roland Cube 30w. Have one myself. Great set of effects, twin channel, in built tuner, line out and phones socket. I use it for all my gigs and it is a sweet amp. Even has COSM modelling. $400 new from The Rockshop (was on sale), but would never look back, great all round amp

[Usarka]

Cheers dude, was seriously looking at the cubes they've got great reviews.

In the end I'm actually quite chuffed with the combo I've now got. The fender amp provides some nice-as clean tones, the multi-effects allows me to tutu with that, and I've got the marshall as a back up for the dirrrrrrrty stuff.

[The Lone Rider]

Hi all you guitar guru's out there I need some direction.

I need a new amp (old one too big for purpose) AND I'm wanting to start playing with some different sounds.

So should I:

• Buy a new amp that incorporates a small range of effects (eg Roland 20xl) OR
• Buy a "standard" but quality amp (HT1?)
  
  and
• Add some effects pedals over time? OR
• Or use a multi-effects box like a BOSS or Line6.

Chur.

I run a Line 6 flextone 3, with a Line 6 DM-4 (Distortion) and a Dunlop Crybaby.

The flextone has all the modeling plus a wide range of effects, which can be controlled by a floorboard. The other advantage is you can access even more parameters via your computer, and save anything you really liked onto your hard drive and dump it back to the amp when you need it.

DM distortion, the best range of grunt snot and fizz you can get without having a cupboard of new and old pedals.

And nothing beats a crybaby for it's classic sound.