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All those wires and plugs would do my head in if it was just for home playing.
Buy something that you love the basic sound off... guitar -> amp.
Thats the start point; all the rest just follows.
Life is very short to be messing around with gear that 'should' sound good, imho.
At that point you could ditch the Mesa pedal as well as the Princeton and get a small pedalboard with a multi-outlet power supply that would run the pedals - you an do that even with the Whammy if the outlets are isolated. That would reduce it to two power cables out front.
I'm quite tempted to try the Katana myself...
"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've also never understood why a solid state amp needs an attenuated mode?
I have to agree about ugly. There are demos where it sounds good though.
Mainly to get a more useful range on the master volume control. (That said 0.5W, 50W and 100W seems odd, the middle one would be better around 5-10W probably.)
My little Vox Mini5 Rhythm does too, and the effect of using the lower-power modes is slightly different from turning the volume down, if you're trying to play very quietly - it stops the slight boominess which you get in 5W mode at low settings.
You could try a Vox Mini5 Rhythm .
"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
"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
A lot of this cable clutter and mess can be avoided by building pedalboards and rack cases with it all cut to length or cable-tied into place, so you only have one loose power cable. I used to do that with my gig set-up a few years ago - my amp and pedalboard were plugged into the rack (2U, so two spare outlets) and the only connection to the wall was the power cable to the rack unit… made it safe, quick and easy to set up.
"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
"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
The idea of selling the amp (and petty much everything else) is to use the money to build an ideal home setup from the ground up, which would probably leave he some left over to get something better than guitar stuff as an alternative as well - nice small keyboard, mandola, anything else interesting
Edit - also playing through modelling software just isn't as fun as playing a proper amp or preamp! I'm not going to be playing in public so it's only for me and I want to enjoy it and sound as nice as possible