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In your Bought & Sold articles, I’ve been struck by the answers to the question: 'Would you rather buy a really good guitar and a cheap amp or a cheap guitar and a really top-notch amp?' I used to think the answer was fairly obvious: given a finite budget, you would get the best return on investment (sonically speaking) if you put your money towards an amp. A cheaper but well-set-up Squier Strat, paired with a decent valve amp would sound better than a high-end equivalent going into a soulless solid-state amps that many of us had to make do with.
Leaving aside golden-era US guitars, where a ‘student’ instrument was often a stripped-down version of the ‘pro’ model, the quality of mass-produced budget guitars and amps has increased dramatically. Advances in solid-state
