Moving on to electric, need some advice on practice amp!

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I bought my first acoustic over a year ago and I was testing the water of learning the guitar. It was the best move I ever made. It has been very difficult, yet extremely rewarding!

Now I'm ready to start adding to my collection and investing in an electric guitar.

I was set on either the Yamaha pacifica or the Yamaha RGX A2.

After demo'ing both for approximately 45 minutes whilst the pacifica offered that little more switiching between single coil and humbucker the RGX A2 just sounded and felt sublime. I think I'll follow my heart again even though it costs an extra £100, it's worth it.

Now I'm in pickle in choosing an amp. I played around with a Roland Micro Cube and it sounded great, especially for the price (£80). However, I can't help but feel that it will be bottlenecking the guitar's capability by a fair bit. On the other I've been looking into something with a bit more power and Vox AD30VT seems like it has a fair amount of features for the money but I'm yet to demo this. Will it be worth spending almost double?

I'll be using it just it purely in my bedroom and nothing more. My requirements are decent sound with a variety of effects.

I'm on a fairly tight budget. So, I'd like to make an informed decision before taking the plunge. Thanks for any advice :)
 
The Vox amp is rather good, I bought my dad the 15watter and even thats more than loud enough for a practice amp, and the effects are reasonably decent, it's almost mind boggling the amount of different buttons and knobs combos that are available, at first. It was recommended to me by one of my mates who used to work in a music shop, and he rated it above some of the more expensive amps he used to play on. If you can find the 15w version for £80-100 you'll probably be very happy, especially if you like some of the presets :)
 
http://www.roland.com/products/en/CUBE-60/index.html

Here's what I have : picked it up for around £130 several years ago - perfect for home use but certainly won't be 'bottle-necked' as you earlier describe your concern.

Huge range of effects/ variations/ preset amp models you can fiddle with to your hearts content but with its variable and adjustable outputs will also be capable of gig practice, recording, live performance et al if in the future you ever wished to undertake anything :)
 
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I've just spent twice as much as I wanted to! (original plan was pacifica and micro cube).

Due to the currency/recession the RGX A2 prices shot up from circa £240 to £350-£430!! I nearly had a fit. So after googling around I found a store which listed it as £229. So I called Reverb to ask if they could price match it and they said they can't. However, they said they have 2 of the 'older' models available at £225 each (1 black, 1 white). I asked the difference between the models and he said there was no difference at all. Just the price tag. These two models they were referring to were shelf models, both in mint condition. He said I can return it if it's not in pristine condition :)

I ordered a Vox VT30 for £180, which was a lot more than I wanted to spend but imo it was a worth while investment. I was looking at the AD15VT and VT15 offered so much more for £150, then thought it's worth an extra £30 for 30W.

I should be ok with a bog standard lead right?

I'm so excited, roll on Tuesday :D

The_morrell said:
I've got a vox Vt30 I must say its fantastic....

http://www.voxamps.com/valvetronix/vt-series

cost me about 180 ish

Liking your choice of guitar, I always had my eye on one of them when I started out but was'nt sure if I was going to keep it up. How wrong I was
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:D I demo'd the VT 15 in-store and I loved it!
 
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