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54 I MUSIC INC. I MAY 2011<br />
TREND SEGMENTS<br />
GUITAR AMPS<br />
Jerry Perron<br />
cording to owner Jim Pinkston,<br />
seasoned players 30 and over<br />
usually go for the Spider Jam.<br />
“They’re married, they’ve got<br />
two kids, they’re not 23 anymore<br />
with a bunch of guys coming<br />
over to drink beers and jam, but<br />
they still want to play guitar,” he<br />
said. “It’s $400. It has a recording<br />
studio where you can plug a<br />
microphone into it, a keyboard,<br />
a bass — anything you want to<br />
with an endless loop station.”<br />
Reno’s <strong>Music</strong>’s Maxwell also<br />
said he often sees tone connoisseurs<br />
choose G-Decs and Spider<br />
Jams. “A seasoned player who<br />
knows stage volume knows why<br />
they want a ’65 Deluxe Reverb<br />
instead of a modeled version,”<br />
he said. “But even a seasoned<br />
player like that could be swayed<br />
when they say, ‘Well, this is<br />
just for rehearsal, practicing or<br />
composing.’ Then they look at<br />
all the other sounds, software<br />
and everything that you can do<br />
with it. There are many reasons<br />
why they might prefer it. Plus,<br />
it’s less expensive.”<br />
At The <strong>Music</strong> Center, Perron<br />
said working musicians regularly<br />
come in who play in cover bands.<br />
Over the course of a gig, they can<br />
cover ground from Skid Row to<br />
The Beatles to Alanis Morissette.<br />
“Nothing beats having the real<br />
thing, and it would be great to<br />
own 30 amps from the vintage<br />
market,” Perron said. “But it’s not<br />
like it used to be where you had a<br />
rack full of different processors.<br />
Everything is all in one unit.”<br />
And for a robust recording<br />
experience, musicians will soon<br />
have to look no further than Or-
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