Anybody here have any opinions on the Tech21 Sansamp Classic?

I haven't ever used this product. I used to have a Sans Amp Tech 21 amp, and I now own an old Sans Amp bass DI box.

The DI box does exactly what it is supposed to do and looks to be indestructible.

The Tech 21 amp was also very well and solidly built. It was a solid state combo that claimed to emulate a wide range of tube sounds and also had unusually flexible signal routing - obviously built for the recording studio. In my opinion it sounded pretty good, but when all is said and done, nothing but tubes sound like tubes, so I sold it and plunked down three times as much money for a Victoria tweed deluxe combo (which I hope will accompany me to the old folks' home).

So, what I anticipate is, the Sans Amp you are looking at will be well built and will be very useful, but it will not be the holy grail of tone.

Like you, I am curious to hear from people who have actually used one!

I've never tried it, but using a tube amp is probably better. Unfortunately, I have to consider the noise issue. I also don't have adequate space. As much as I obsess about this stuff, I have other responsibilities like house, wife & child. I can't afford to dole out several hundreds of dollars on my hobby. I don't want to buy an item and have no use for half its features

I'm using an EMU 1820. It's a good unit. I'm not to crazy about how my guitar & bass (Warwick Corvette Standard & Mex Strat body, Warmoth maple neck, Fender Lac Sensor pickups) sound thru the mic pre but it works with my audio techina 2020 when recording acoustic guitar (Taylor). I’ve tried demos of amplitube & guitar rig and found those plug-ins to be noisy and unrealistic. The EMU effects aren't anything to write home about.

I'm hesitant about the Pod XT because I wasn't too thrilled about the Pod 2. I liked it, but it lacked something. I don't necessarily need effects because Sonar has some pretty good effects. I've been playing bass for about 15 years. I have little fingers of concrete when it comes to playing guitar. I'm intrigue about the Tone lab, but I have to try it out before considering spending $300 bucks. I've ordered the guitar & bass ampworks 3 weeks ago from Musician's Friend. The bass was OK but the guitar unit was terrible. The output was low, the presets sucked, and I had a hard time tweaking the thing. The Vox sound was decent, but not enough for me to keep it. I'm going to send both units back for a refund. I've used a Sansamp Bass driver and thought it was a good pedal. The sound samples posted on the Tech 21 website sound pretty good to me. I'm considering ordering the Sansamp GT2 or Classic. I just need a good guitar sound along the lines of Wilco & Pavement, something that I can plug into and bang out some chords without spending hours tweaking it.

Any comments, criticism, opinions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks joe b & jamester for taking the time to respond to my post.

carlo3874