I’m kind of there with you @Mark_UK. As much a I enjoy my LT25 and all the effects it offers. I too tend to find myself grabbing for the cleanest sound I can find more often than not.
The amp has been great to start out on, and the recording interface to my PC is damn handy. I have had great fun learning what all the effects do and creating my own. I will still cycle through several of them if I get bored, but for the most part there are only 2 or 3 I use now, mostly pretty clean sounding though. The foot switch was a nice addition to it, I recommend that as well for this amp. This amp has been a GREAT bang for the buck to start on and very easy on the wallet too. Which was one of the big reasons I picked it… if things didn’t work out I wasn’t going to be out a ton of cash. But things have worked out well, and I love my new hobby!!! Much credit to @JoshFossgreen for this awesome course!!!
As I move forward, my next AMP probably won’t have nearly as many effects on board (if any), and I’m still waiting on that 410 cab to materialize that I mentioned in my The gear gods have smiled, and now I must shop! thread. Not any fault of my friend, just we haven’t seen each other for a month. I haven’t bugged him about it either. But even if that falls through, I already have a backup plan.
The FREE 410 cab sounds great on paper, but will be a LOT to move just to go jam with my brother-in-law and maybe some others. The LT25 just doesn’t have enough wattage behind it to jam with others either. While I REALLY like the TC Electronic AMP BH series heads, it means I still need to buy a suitable cab to go with it if I don’t end up with the free one. I’m nowhere near “gig ready” in this little journey so something smaller more portable makes more sense.
The next AMP will probably be a combo, and sadly the TC Electronic BG250-210 combo doesn’t seem readily available or affordable. Oh I do like their Tone Print options!!! But I’ve chosen the Peavey Max 300 2x10 as the backup plan. It should last me a good long time… unless I find something I like better in the mean time. Peavey MAX 300 2x10" 300-watt Bass Combo Amp | Sweetwater But we shall see what happens in the coming weeks.
Will I sell the LT25??? That has yet to be decided. I only paid $230 for it, and even though it is in like new condition what am I going to get for it? $100 maybe $150? I have all the original packaging so shipping it won’t be hard, but will be expensive. So I’d probably have to try to sell it locally. I could always keep it, and see how much I use it after I move on to the next amp. Or keep it in the back of my Grand Cherokee and play it off the cars inverter near a beach somewhere by myself, who knows? LOL.
Chris