well.... maybe if i keep the laney i have at the mo.... that will serve as my investment, and hold its value....... (ish)....
Yeah, I still have an old Marshall 8080 Valvestate in the US that I would certainly use if I was back there. It sounded fine, basically, and I'd only replace it if I went all-tube.
They dinnae have amp modellers when I were a lad, an' all that, up the hill both ways, etc. ;)
and also, upgrading stuff.... things like the POD have patches and new packs which upgrade it..... obviously i dunno how long they'll continuing making them but its a good thing to have.... and makin gthings obselete, well its the norm with everything hi-tech nowadays [...] its the first point- the re-sale value of things which probably worries me the most..... cause i think your right about modellers not holding there value as well.... but then i may not want to sell it in the future... and when i decide i want, say, and ENGL.... i can keep the modeller exclusively for home use and band practice e.t.c......... and for general fun as well.....
Line6 seem pretty good at providing updates, but hey, modellers are basically computers. So: they'll keep providing backwards compatible upgrades until they need to make a big enough hardware change (new chips or something) that it's no longer easy/efficient to make backwards compatible software/firmware.
But you're right about the key issues of usability: today's digital modellers aren't
bad and will a current POD still sound mostly OK to most people in 10 years? Sure. Will modellers sound better in 10 years, eh, very probably. Will they sound better enough that you care? Well, that's a G.A.S. issue as much as anything else :)
I have it in mind to get a POD for home recording stuff, though I haven't got room in the budget just yet. What would be
really cool would be if there was a Line6 plug-in for GarageBand/Logic that would let me run a dry guitar signal into GB but then digitally offload that to a POD-like hardware unit for effecting, then run the wet output back to GB without changing the dry signal recorded on the GB track -- essentially using the POD-like hardware to do the work of CPU-hogging GB/Logic amp sims. That would get you the better sound of the POD's amp models without sacrificing a) the recorded dry signal, so you can change the amp sound later, and b) crunching up onboard CPU with all the amp model processing. Wicked! But I digress ..... :roll:
