Hypothetical which would you choose?

[MadAsAHatter]

I'll do this as a poll but feel free to add details and discuss why.

If you had the choice between two perfect but totally opposite types of amps and could only choose one, which would you choose?

1. Would you rather have a jack of all trades? Something with great flexibility, numerous tone shaping abilities, can cover a lot of ground, and sounds wonderful, but may not capture everything perfectly?
2. Or would you rather have a one trick pony? Something with just enough tone shaping to compensate for room acoustics, but has the one tone that is your sound and it does it like nothing else can?

 

[Racerxrated]

I dial all amps best…for me. Doesn’t matter which brand; in the end they are all going to sound similar. So I’d go with one perfect (for me) tone. Right now it’s my boosted 72 Marshall.

 

[CurlOfTheBurl]

#1 for sure.

I always dial in my sounds relatively similarly regardless of amp, but it's almost always on a multi-channel amp. Now, if the amp has great dynamic response and can clean up nicely with the guitar volume knob, that changes things. I only ever had two amps that did that as well as I wanted (Deliverance 60 and 120)... but I preferred the overall package of the Sig:X that could get close to Deliverance sounds so moved that direction instead.

 

[Panhead5]

If you were any type of guitar player you would take your favorite on trick pony and make it work for all applications with guitars pedals and fingers !!! That also includes disco !!!!





Nah just kidding , but I can tell you everytime I got something that was supposed to do everything well --I ended up hating it because it really does nothing well .

Now back to the regularly scheduled gear debate topic at hand .

 

[That1Guy]

I'd have to go with #1. Although I'd probably buy both, hypothetically.

 

[stratjacket]

The one perfect tone. I’m a “set it and forget it” guy.