Hot fat and smooth for a Lester style axe??
BKP Holy Divers.
I typically say you can't go wrong with the RebelYells, but when you said "smooth", and "neck", well, the HolyDivers deliver in spades. And their color/design can be completely customizable. Neck 7.9, Bridge 15.9 but the pole/pup...
Damn straight... The Hagen's got this wild side to it - I love it - I can rein it in when needed but sometimes??? Man just letting the chords ringing out or going full-chuggah, you can't beat that top end sizzle and bite. I love the Hagen.
The allure of modellers will always be "a thing", but I've learned my lesson having purchased and shortly-thereafter sold the Axe-FX and Kemper in their various iterations. It was always the same thing - super stoked - then countless hours rabbit-holing and frothing for updates - and not...
It was a great amp in many respects - I just didn't dig the overall processed feel of the higher gain sounds, and it was overall too much gain for my needs and wants. Basically, a great amp - but just having it sit around in amongst others like the Hagen, VH4, XTC, Shiva, JJ, just seemed like a...