Dude, glad you're on board the music train. I used to use my older brother's Peavy solid state combo amp and it was nasty. I do like the tube sound, but usually it's just glassy for clean, which is cool in SRV sort of way, but for the dirt, ya gotta crank it up to 11, which, if I had no neighbors, would be fine. I'm willing to compromise with SS gear. It's the arrangement, intent and final display that counts. I know ppl that constantly obsess over tube gear, this plug in, that synth board, but, at the end of the day, where's the beef?
Music right now, right this minute. Get her done!
The Peavey Bandits [all Solid State goodness] use the TransTube technology to emulate that sag and biasing of tube amps I told you about. Most people loves those amps [Emperor even recorded their guitars through one in of their albums]:
I'm not a snob at all. I don't care for brands or what have you, all I care about is if the product [guitars, pedals, amps] give me the most flexibility and options.
At home, and for self indulgence purposes you don't need a tube amp [nor an SS with that much wattage]; and quite frankly you don't even need a tube amp these days at all. There are a lot of great emulating products available that far exceed what a tube amp does [ex: 2Notes cab sim, Kemper, etc]
So in the end the question is why settling for 1 trick pony when for the same price of that [or even less] you can have another product that does more.
And whenever you can, go 2nd hand. Nothing wrong with it at all.
My current gear:
Fender Aerodyne Strat [tuned to B]
Marshall Blues Breaker 2
MXR Super Badass Distortion
Seymour Duncan Tweak Fuzz [gonna sell it]
Joyo Dynamic Compressor [a great compressor for 30 euros]
Ibanez Dual Analogue Flanger FL99 [second hand, great flanger]
Zoom Ms70CDR [has superb emulations of delays, reverbs and chorus]
Dod Phasor [gonna sell it]
Fender Volume pedal
Joyo American Sound [not using, but not selling, does a great Fender clean amp emulation and takes pedals like a beast - also 30 euros]
all powered by a Joyo Power station [35 euros]
Fender Mustang III v2 [only use some of the pre-amps [bassman and 65 Deluxe for the most part], though some of the in built effects are quite good: compressor, noise gate, vibratone, reverbs, tremolo...]
Soon to acquire:
Mooer Rumble Drive,Tender Octaver Pro and Elady
I can attest to the quality of most of the Mooer pedals
their
Black Secret is an exact copy of a Rat and Turbo Rat,
the
Green Mile is an exact copy of the TS808 with an extra setting,
the
Ninety Orange does the MXR phase 90 block and script thing and to my ears it sounds better - lest distorted with the mids - than the original
the
Trelicopter sounds great as a simple tremolo,
the
Hustle Drive is pretty much an OCD in a different package and the
Tender Octaver is better than the EHX Micro Pog given that it's not as shrilling in the upper octave]
and if you wantto go even cheaper than Mooer, check Donner. They are the exact same pedal, only rebranded.