I have no amp, as the old peavey vypyr I had stopped working. I've been using some Neural DSP plugins I have and headphones, but using headphones gets old. They're decent ones Sennheiser 599HD. Achieving the setup I want will cost me thousands of dollars yikes
First of all. I need a new desk, as my current one is old and only 47" wide. I need a 60" desk, ideally made of solid wood, easily $500-800
Then, I would need to buy speaker monitors, as I only have a shitty cheap soundbar. The Yamaha HS5 are $400 for the pair and A5X are $700 minimum. I'd rather have A5X.
Then, it comes the modeler that I will need. The FM3 is cheaper $1100, but I don't like the compact size, it will look awful on a desk, then how do you protect it? How do you plug it into a power conditioner? It just doesn't look right. I would love to have the AXE FX2 or FX3, so it can sit nicely on top of a power conditioner in one of those rack cubes.
The FM3 despite being affordable, the look of it and how it would look and function on a desk setup just doesn't sit with me. Where would you place the thing? Is lightweight, and it could tip over. It just doesn't look right.
So, of course, for me to have the look I want for my setup, I would at least the Axe FX2 which would be used and I'd rather buy new tbh so that's $2300 for an Axe FX3
Similarly, any other foot modelers won't work for my ideal setup, they would look ugly on the floor full of cables, where liquid and stuff can drop on them.
So I don't know, for now I don't know if I should get studio monitors or some cheap amp for me to practice with, Im tired of using headphones, I mean even if I buy the HS5 or AX5, they do me no good cause I have no Axe FX and the other stuff. I could use my DSP plugins tho but now I'm stuck to the computer if I want to play
I may get the Axe FX3 when Axe FX4 comes out, the $2300 right now is way too high. I'm hoping to pay $1600 at most. I'm not in a rush to have one either. I'd rather wait and have the FX3 than buy an FM3 and be unhappy with its compact and size. I want the look of a rack.
The cheapest option is just a cheap ass Katana Mini 7watt about $99, so I can have something to practice without headphones as the A5X will cost me $700