JonA_CT
Been spending a lot of time on here!
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I agree with Jon on his take on just about everything!
Another thought: I bought an inexpensive (bad) amp at first and it was frustrating. The amp for the guitar is like the lens for the camera- if you plug a wonderful guitar into a bad amp- you will get bad tone. However, plug an inexpensive guitar into a great amp and you can get great tone! Tube amps, btw are truly monsters- a 5 watt tube amp with an efficient speaker can upset the family, and possibly the neighbors! Try before you buy.
As far as amp modelers go, Jon's HD500 is a wonderful tool with great tones, but it's got (to me) a fairly steep learning curve. Perhaps that's simply because I learned on another system. BTW, Zoom has a pretty cool multi-fx modeler too. I think they are like the G3 and the G5 (been awhile).
Whatever you decide to do, you will enjoy the journey!
True -- you need to know what you want out of the thing to make any of them work, honestly. Zoom is a good choice -- so is Digitech (like the RP500 or 1000.)