Guitar Amp questions

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I just bought a guitar not too long ago. I need to get an Amplifier, or so I am thinking. I listened to a few combo amps at a local store a few days ago. None of them sounded any better than my current set-up on the clean channel. My current set up is, A Yamaha CA-1010 Amp(90 watts @ 8 ohms, Yamaha DSP-100 preamp (pre amp and effects)and either Phase Tech 7T's or Paradigm Mini Monitors as the speakers. Now the problem is that once in a while I might want to have a bit of distortion and there is no way I can get that from my current set up. I am afraid to buy a distortion Peddle, because the 2 that I tried out in the store sounded like "solid-state" distortion. Without breaking the bank, were can I find a valve based distortion peddle? Should I just save up a few bucks and buy a preamp instead? I am a bit confused....

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Topic - Guitar Amp questions - tuneman 19:46:10 03/01/05 (10)

Re: Guitar Amp questions - Bill Fitzmaurice 11:47:57 04/06/05 (0)

Re: Guitar Amp questions - DMW 15:37:58 04/05/05 (0)

Re: Guitar Amp questions - Alpha Al 10:41:48 03/13/05 (0)

Re: Guitar Amp questions - unaffiliated 08:21:02 03/03/05 (0)

Re: Guitar Amp questions - RBP 02:35:39 03/02/05 (5)

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Re: Guitar Amp questions - tuneman 10:42:04 03/02/05 (3)

Re: Guitar Amp questions - oldroadie 11:42:42 03/02/05 (2)

Re: Guitar Amp questions - tuneman 13:10:13 03/04/05 (1)

Re: Guitar Amp questions - oldroadie 14:48:49 03/04/05 (0)

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