My biggest gripe about the " format " is that it is designed to suck you in, and then milk you of more money. Sure the price of entry to have a " Fender " clean Module and a " Diezel " Herbert channel is great at around the $2k mark. But if you realize you would rather have a Soldano clean channel and a Marshall gain channel, it is going to cost you another $800. Meanwhile, you are sitting on $800 in modules that do nothing for you. The price of entry is not horrid, it is the problem of not being able to try before you buy. There are over 20 different modules ranging from Tweed Deluxe to 6505 and everything in between and around those.
I had a buddy that had the Randall version of these in a head. Sounded great, but even he said that it was not worth it. His head got dropped once during a set change and it bent the chassis enough to break one module and render the rest of the amp unusable. He was a sponsored player, and was able to get a replacement for next to nothing, but he said it was fragile enough to not want to bank on it.
I realize this is much more difficult to have happen in a rack unit, but the cost to have options is just too high. If there was a trade-in policy, maybe?
I had a buddy that had the Randall version of these in a head. Sounded great, but even he said that it was not worth it. His head got dropped once during a set change and it bent the chassis enough to break one module and render the rest of the amp unusable. He was a sponsored player, and was able to get a replacement for next to nothing, but he said it was fragile enough to not want to bank on it.
I realize this is much more difficult to have happen in a rack unit, but the cost to have options is just too high. If there was a trade-in policy, maybe?
