Lots of crying and screaming. Y'all parents out there know the kind of ravening madness such infant/two-year-old crying/screaming can engender. How am I dealing with it? I'm thinkin' about amps, of course! 
So I've lately realized that though I love its tone & mojo, my Plexi reissue doesn't have quite enough preamp gain on its own to be completely at home wth my style of "playing" (such as it is). I've been thinking that maybe a more modern Marshall like a DSL would be more my speed (though I'm not sure how much of that ephemeral "mojo" would carry over with the more modern model
). I love my Trace Elliot Bonneville, but I don't want to sell the Plex and be down to just one amp. I always like to have at least two good amps ~ either for backup in live situations or for variety in recording situations.Best I can figure in my current, drug-assisted state of daydreaming, here are my options:
1. Sell Plexi & replace it with DSL head.
2. Sell Plexi & replace it with DSL combo.
3. Sell Plexi & replace it with some other "nice" amp (Budda Superdrive, Fender Supersonic 22, other?).
4. Mod Plexi w/ not only master volume but increased preamp gain.
5. Leave everything as is & suck it up / change my playing style.
I'm loving all the DSL clips I've been hearing ~ a lot of great posts in the thread I started about that. And if I go that route and choose the head option, I can eventually pick up a matching 4x12 so Billy won't banninate me from teh forumz.
If I go the combo route, I'd certainly have an easier time when I get back into gigging the tiny joints around this area, plus I could sell my 2x12 cab for extra cash ... but ... I do already have the B'ville combo for small gigs, and I also kinda like having a bigger head & cab for those rare opportunities for bigger stages (even though I'd be looking at a 50 watt head, so no more powerful than the B'ville combo, technically).If I mod the Plexi, I'm pretty sure that would hurt the resale, if I ever do decide to let it go, right? Plus, I'm not sure modding it wouldn't "kill" the "mojo" in there, y'know? (I'm talking about having my local tech do it, not spending the big bucks to have Trace or Bray or someone like that do it, though I suppose if I save up long enough that might be another option.)
And if I leave everything as is, I'll have a couple of great amps, but I'll likely remain dissatisfied, because I'm just all screwed up on the inside like that.
TL;DR version: I'm neurotic & got A) prollems & B) too much time to think about stuff.
Hope y'all are having a pleasant Saturday evening, bruthas!
You're like a chick who can't decide which pants to wear with her black shirt 
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