Buy a new amp

Got an awesome guitar and some decent skills, but no awesome amp to make it all sound louder =(

After looking at a few different models and getting lots of advice, I finally settled on the Vox Pathfinder 15R. (I ordered it from zZounds.com. I wouldn’t pimp a mail-order company, but it only cost $119, and they shipped it to Alaska for free!) I’ve only had a chance to plug it in and strum a little bit with it, but it’s just great. It’s lighter than some laptops but still has plenty of punch, and the gain control and the the gain boost button (the “11”, if you will) provide plenty of overdrive/distortion. It finally feels like I’m playing guitar again!

I still have my tacky Peavey transistor amp from high school. Sounds great for shred metal. Sounds flat, barky and colorless for anything else. Looking for an old school Twin Reverb or anything with real tubes in it!

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