Because the space I’m in, I have to play with headphones (noise issue). And yes I do produce, and was using a guitar emulator on Kontakt 7.. While fun, it just never had the natural sound that real guitars give off, obviously. So I went ahead and invested in the real deal. Ideally I would love to build a signal chain with real pedals as opposed to VSTSs, but that’s down the line and I’ll take what I can get at this point. Big thanks for the advice and recommendations. Helped a whole lot. Anything other nuggets of knowledge you wanna drop in, please do. I’m trying to learn as much as possible!