I was just programming some sounds in my Quad Cortex for an upcoming workshop and was thinking about how much things have changed since my first amplifier – an awful-sounding Gorilla. I was buying pedals and trying to get it sounding better, but it was a lost cause. I eventually saved up and got a Marshall stack, my tone quest began and the money pit was dug.
“Kids these days don’t know how lucky they got it,” I hear myself saying, and feeling old beyond my years. But it’s true. When I grew up, amps that sounded good were expensive – and heavy, and loud. These days you can pull a pretty good sound out of an iPad. Whaaaat?
