I've been loving the Deluxe too, and spend a ton of time playing it. Which while sounding awesome, always makes me feel a little strange, like thinking "okay, there are 200+ amp models in here, and all these ultra rare/expensive models that I'll probably never get to play in person, not to mention this near limitless amount of FX", on this flagship $2499 unit, and yet what did I spend 2 hours just playing ? A Deluxe model with nothing but the cab block and some reverb....
Its like if your playing a racing video, Fonza on XBox or whatever, most folks probably pick the super exotic cars, Ford GT40 in my case, because you can. The game does have things like a Honda Civic among its 500+ car choices, but how many people are picking those bone stock, everyday type of cars right ??
But that Deluxe just sounds and feels "right" to me, I just love the tone it gets, it works with my playing and my guitars. I've owned Deluxes in the past and honestly the model sounds better than the real thing. Probably because I couldn't often play my real ones past 2 or 3 without neighbors banging on the wall.
It kind of feels like I 'should' be setting up patches with dual amps, something like a TrainWreck in there, add in 4 delay blocks because now we can, have at least half of the grid utilized, 6 outputs running and all that cool stuff the unit can do, but then here I am using a $2499 modeler to get the sound of a guitar plugged straight into an amp that is like $1000 or so..... go figure
