I recently bought a LINE 6 POD, from Sam Ash. List about 500.00 dollars. Can get it for 275.00. This little device is used in many studios, to emulate the amplification of days gone buy. It has probably thousands of combinations, and it can be use for anything from recording, MIDI, or simply front end distortion of your guitar prior to its getting into the amp. It saves any combination of patterns you want it to, and is totally alterable. There are some settings that even have that odd after affect that Jimmy Page was using in Dazed and Confused (it think it was). And, for some extra money later on down the road, it comes with a mammoth stomp peddle.

If you have some more money, and I mean lots more (1599.00), Line 6 has an amp called the VETTE, that does this and more built in. Go to their web site and check this little baby out.

Any, how, by comparison, a Tube Screamer that does about 9 things, is a complete waste compared to this, which is a plug in. (Tube Screamers are batter powered).

PLC