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Certainly pedals, amp and cabinet must class as one instrument. You can’t ask an organist to split his key boards, pedals, pipes, reeds, and bellows.
I run an AxeFX, MFC controller, two Mission pedals, and a Matrix Q12. They are my version of an organ. Bought second hand over several years they add up to more than £2,000. New you’d be talking £4,000. Whereas my gigging guitars are all homemade at around £250 each, with another £75 each in straps and cases.
are cabs included in the amp pricing?
cabs are important too m'kay
Nice guitars will impart thier own character through a amp so I do have nice guitars too, but as long as a guitar is comfortably playable, thats all you need.
Only when I started playing reallly nice guitars did I buy really nice amps.
My favourite at the moment is a relative cheaply. Gibson GA15. Bit Voxy, bit Fender, sounds fab by itself, awesome through my 2x12 cab. Friendly to pedals, Love it. No plans to change.
I'm not talking about Custom Shop nitpicking, but you need around a grand in my experience.
You can play a guitar into the PA (assuming you have some sort of pedal/preamp) but you can't play air guitar into an amp.
OK, I'm exaggerating slightly, but I don't consider the amp anywhere near as important as some people do. I'm currently using a £2K+ bass into a £24 pedal into whatever amp the venue has, and it's fine. The only bass amp I own is about £400 new I think, and it's really a practice amp - although it would work as a stage monitor as well. So that would still be at least 80:20 to the instrument.
I'm not really playing guitar at the moment, but if I do I have a £4K guitar, a £400 guitar and a £100 amp, which would be fine for small gigs. (I admit I upgraded the speaker, but the new one only cost £25.)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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(Look at the box on the floor .)
I'm able to demonstrate this is not true almost every week at the shop. Given a decent guitar, even most sub-£50 solid-state amps can be made to sound at least acceptable, and some of them really quite good. Not at a volume you could gig with without mic'ing it, of course.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I find it surprising how many guitar players don’t see it that way though.
Just worked out my split on pedals, amp and guitar (based on my most expensive guitar and amp and the current population of my pedal board) comes out at almost exactly 1/3rd on each.