re: Modeling amps vs. Profiler?

There are great profiles available on the rig exchange, you don’t need TJ or Britt to get a great one. I found a Brunetti Maranello profile that just rips. The stock AC profile is a great platform for building a clean rig. You can make a Kemper sound as good as any tube amp, it just takes a bit of experience and time. If you gig, modelers/profilers are absolutely the way to go. FOH quality is the same every time, stage sound is the same every time…and quieter. If you’re a player who flies to gigs and rents a back line, Al, you need to take is your guitar and a thumb drive.

Tube amps? Love them, but they’re really starting to become too expensive to maintain. Tubes are stratospheric expensive. Which might further drive modelers/ profilers to the next level of development.