AlanN said:
Absolutely. Decent ones cost pennies these days, you have no excuse!
I'll go ahead and order one, then. From the way they were described, it sounded pretty good. And "pennies" is obviously good, too.
Ozeshin said:
Usually if you can sing reasonably well that helps.
Most people with a little high school choir experience will have a reasonably good ear for pitch without really knowing it.
And I actually CAN sing rather well, I've often been told. In fact, it's frankly the fact that I sing well that makes me want to take advantage of a natural gift by learning to play an instrument like guitar (and if it weren't guitar, it would be keyboards).
So, given Ozeshin's view, I ought to at some point be able to tune by ear rather than by "digital cheating."
By the way, I didn't mention it, but I stumbled into an amplifier for myself. My girlfiend got me one when she gave me the guitar, but somehow I seem to have lost it over the years (and four moves).
It's a "Kustom KGA10" unit. I was talking to a guy in my church who plays guitar, and he asked me if I had an amplifier. And I was like, no.
So he sold me this one - which he said he'd only used a couple of times - for $20 USD. He said his parents had bought him a real nice one almost immediately after he bought this unit - and he'd just put the Kustom aside. And he'd just stumbled over it while looking for something else in the garage the day before.
So we're both happy.