[noob3]

Thanks for all the information, but I'm probably going to have to buy somthing cheap.

I'll have about $500 to spend after Christmas, and I want to buy a Sansamp Bass Driver too . Which is basically a really nice bass tube-amp simulator, and does guitar really well. My current amp is solidstate (and a bass amp ;p), and I yearn for tubes-melting down type of sound. I'm only buying a guitar because my bass got stolen, and I'm not in a band so I don't see why I'd want a bass again until I actually get in a band. You can write bass lines on a guitar, you can even play bass with an octave-pedal. But you can't play no chugga-chugga-chugga. Stupid bass.