Along with my new Ibanez guitar, a couple weeks ago I indulged my desire to replace my mostly-unappreciated Mesa Boogie Rect-O-Verb Combo Amp by purchasing a brand new Peavey Vypyr 75 (Watt) digital combo amp. Like Line 6's digital amps, the Peavey amp is a solid state (not tube) amp with a long list of emulations of other famous amps, including my own Mesa Boogie. Along with this extensive catalogue of classic amps, the Peavey features a number of effect pedal emulations, a built-in tuner, and 12 storage slots for different settings on the amp. You can also plug in an optional foot pedal controller to allow you to control most of the amp's parameters with either of two expression pedals and a number of on/off switches. I haven't bought the pedal yet, but now that I'm certain I like the amp, it's only a matter of time before I buy one online.
Sure, you can tell that this amp doesn't sound quite as warm as a tube amp (despite emulating one), but ultimately, its feature set and price point (costing roughly 25% of my Mesa) makes it worth the replacement. Now I just have to sell my other amp on eBay...supposedly Mesa resell values are pretty high, so hopefully I'll end up making some money overall, despite buying a new amp. Good deal if you ask me!
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Here's the website of the music minister at our church who modifies pedals. http://www.jhspedals.com/
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