Yep, it’s all sooo subjective so you have to ignore everyone to a degree because they have their preferences and it will never match yours. Just get something that’s flexible and gives you room to grow when you realise that what you initially wanted isn’t what you actually want moving forward.
Interfaces are just utilitarian devices so you could go for anything. You can’t go wrong with Focusrite for entry level and beyond. It’s what you put in it is the important thing.
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None of this bullshit with an acoustic mate 
a douche canoe you say? you can definitely connect one of those to a computer for more chorus-y sounds when you play Wonderwall at the local open mic night
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Just mic up an amp, those battery powered mini amps sound ace recorded, they sound massive, as you can push them into overdrive easily.
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those things are so much fun
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got one of these as well
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Don’t have but how cute?
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All this chat about modelling brings me back to my mate extolling the values of replacing his old valve head with an Axe FX and a power amp into the same cab. It never sounded anything other than wicked, and gave us limitless potential numbers of sounds and effects, but fuck me was it heavy and complicated.
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Can confirm, bought an audio interface, some better monitors and an amp sim and it’s the greatest thing ever in the history of the world
Haven’t touched my physical amp in a week, don’t really see the point in it anymore
Soooo many options. Might get a MIDI foot switch and pedal for crazy noises
coming back to this again. in a whole new world of stoke. selling one of the guitars i don’t use to buy more home studio madness.
in case anyone else is remotely considering taking the leap to ampless, i cannot recommend it enough.
What guitar you selling and what amp you getting rid of?
Ive got my Jazzmaster back after a 4 month loan and its good to have it back
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PRS SE guitar, still have an amp - blackstar jobby. The virtual amps / computer thing is so versatile though. Sounds much better with the monitors
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What amp sim did you go for?
I’ve been using a cheap AC tone Joyo pedal and then running it into Logic’s Space Designer with a cab impulse response. It’s alright, but I’ve been tempted by the UAFX Dream '65 Reverb Amp pedal or a buying a decent amp sim.
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I’m using neural dsp plug ins for reaper (as well as their standalone varients). Currently fucking around with the gojira product (bunch of EVH amp sims, pitch shifter, chorus, delay, reverb etc) and a mesa boogie amp sim. The gojira thing is utterly ridiculous. I’m using the pitch shifter to save tunings so have presets of about seven steps worth of pitch. Currently chugging away in drop A 
If its not obvious, I really like heavy metal
There’s a lot of free amp sims that sound great but suffer from latency issues. Best paid for ones ive tried so far are STL tones’ products and neural dsp products
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Nice one - the neural dsp stuff is highly rated, loads of people seem to use that one. That sounds well fun, might try and see if there’s a demo.
I have a shit ton of pedals that I want to use, so I’m looking for something without all the bells and whistles - just a good clean amp sim to go into rather than fx chains. I don’t think I’ve ever tuned my guitars lower than drop D unless I’m taking the strings off, haha.
Yeah all of the neural dsp products have a two week trial. I’ve been screwing around with a lot of them. The mesa and fortin ones are just amp sims with options and they sound insane
The Petrucci one has some fantastic sounds too and loads of mad options
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I’m gonna download the trail and check out that Fortin one. Cheers for the tip man.
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There’s two fortin, one is a fortin nameless, the other fortin cali. Nameless is fucking nuts, so much heavy tone, the cali is lovely but not enough blood curdling gain for me
I ended up going for two options, Naz:
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The Neural DSP Tone King amp. Thanks for the recommendation of the Neural DSP stuff, the TK sounds really realistic and takes pedals well - wish I’d used this sooner for recording! Good shout.
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The Simplifier MKii pedal amp, perfect for late night headphone jamming away from the computer. It’s a little amp that’s the size of a stompbox, has an fx loop for delay/verb sends, and you can bypass the cab sim to use with better sounding software when you want to record. I sit in front of a computer all day for work so having a little amp with a headphone jack on my pedal board in the living room is perfect for fucking around with until I want to record something.
