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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
fakenger35-
I wouldn’t call the Squier Affinity a bad guitar though! In fact, I didn’t say anything about guitars. If it was me, I probably would be swapping out the electrics of the Affinity after a bit, as I said, but modern Squiers are really well built and a good platform for upgrades. And they work well even without the attentions of obsessive tinkerers like me.
Edit: Agree entirely that a THR-5 would be a great option, and light years better than the things that come with the Squier starter packs, which is what we were talking about.
rodan
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.
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.