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I’ve had an AC15 for the last few years - if you’re planning to use it mainly at home, you’d probably need an attenuator to get a decent sound at low volumes. The AC10 probably better in that respect.
upgrade the amp next year if I keep at it? Or is that false economy?
A nice amp sound is one of the things that keeps me engaged and wanting to play more. Cheap solid-state amps can be a buzz-kill, and reduce the chance that you’ll keep at it.
rodan-
I agree, crappy guitar into a decent amp will always sound better than vice versa... IMVHO, obvs...
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A nice amp sound is one of the things that keeps me engaged and wanting to play more. Cheap solid-state amps can be a buzz-kill, and reduce the chance that you’ll keep at it.
Respectfully I have to disagree , and in fact you disagree with yourself, well, sort of!
I can see why - you open up a budget guitar and often the wiring is awful, bad soldering and wires hanging onto terminals by a thread. If I was buying something like a Squier Classic Vibe (only picking on these because I recently setup a friend’s one), the first thing I’d do would be to shield it properly, completely rewire it and upgrade all the electrics, including pickups.<
Crappy amps sound crappy compared to good amps, but you can still have fun with them, especially as a new player. But bad guitars stay bad - they don't feel right, they get rattles and buzzes, they go out of tune, the electrics fail. For me those are the things that would put me off playing more than a cheap amp
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fakenger35
Ha ha, while I get that it’s a buy once and buy right sort of thing, the budget is a strict 500 atm with baby number 1 due any day now, and the snob in me wants an affinity squire (probably a tele now given the fair point about tremolos on cheaper guitars) at a minimum.
The budget also has to include an immediate string upgrade, lead, picks, stand, etc, as I’m literally starting from scratch.
The current amp choice is somewhere between Marshall origin 5, Marshall dsl1, or that Harley Benton tube5 or tube15.
If I keep at it into next year a vox ac15 is the goal.