Solid state amps tend to fall into two categories: your meat-and-potatoes “clean and dirty with reverb” bundles and “everything but the kitchen sink” ones with amp and effects modelling. I have no problem using either type as of late because, frankly, solid state amplification has come a long way from some of the sterile- and anaemic-sounding tubeless amps of yore.
Case in point: Electro-Harmonix’s brand-new Dirt Road Special
